Not a Bride Until a Holy City

Conjunction with the Lord is Exclusively Through the Heavenly Doctrines of the New Church

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Our culture asks us to dismiss differences as equally valid choices. Even in our church organization, there is a growing impression that the New Church is little different from “other” Christian churches, since we basically believe the same thing and how a person lives is more important than what a person believes.

But there is one critical difference: the source of our ideas. Christian churches are all based on merely human inference from the literal stories of the Word. The New Church is based on a spiritual understanding of the internal meaning of those stories revealed by the Lord through Emanuel Swedenborg.

Of course, what makes a church is the life according to faith, a life represented by the holy city prepared as a bride; life is what conjoins a person to the Lord. However the New Church is first described as a holy city because the system of doctrine must come first in time, since doctrine teaches how to live rightly.

In a culture dominated by self-intelligence, it is hard to appeal to a higher truth, an absolute and unchanging truth. The acknowledgement of the Lord Jesus Christ in His Divine Human revealed in the Word is what makes the New Church different.

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