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New Church Perspective
is an online magazine with essays and other content published weekly. Our features are from a variety of writers dealing with a variety of topics, all celebrating the understanding and application of New Church ideas. For a list of past features by category or title, visit our archive.

Entries in new to the New Church; belief; idea of God (1)

Friday
Jan242014

A Search for the Truth 

Don't take the truth for granted. Keep looking for it and living it. Doug shares the story of how he came to find the work of Emanuel Swedenborg and the truth he found there. He encourages everyone who has these truths to use them and share them - you never know whose life will be changed by them. -Editor

Christianity has over the centuries been corrupted by false doctrines and traditions. As it is now, much of it is based on false premises: there is a tritheistic definition of God, where He is divided between three persons, many are taught that they just have to believe and do nothing, many do not believe in an afterlife and await some future resurrection, and there is no logical foundation for defining what portions of scripture are Divinely inspired or not. The Church is divided. Anyone who examines this will see the problem, and most churches are unable to address it. The end result is that many have left the Church. They either become a “spiritual independent,” or become a secular materialist, or if they keep looking will be tempted by other false ideologies or religions. This is what I discovered when I first started asking questions and not accepting to believe things blindly. There is a lot of darkness and uncertainty out there.

For those who follow the theology of the New Church, they experience none of this spiritual uncertainty: the new revelation explains the doctrines of Christianity in a logical and rational manner, and explains where the major denominations have erred.

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