- The Word teaches us how to live.
The whole Word, even when it is actual history, is a parable or metaphor teaching
us about our personal spiritual growth and development.
- Jesus Christ is the physical manifestation
of the One God, called Jehovah in the Old Testament.
- The Christian idea of the trinity
divides the Godhead into three persons. God is one. There are three characteristics
of God which are Love (Father), Wisdom (Son), and Use (the Holy Spirit). As
each of us has a soul, mind, and body in one person, so is God the Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit in one person.
- If a person lives according to
his or her religious beliefs with sincerity (regardless of name or label)
he or she is welcomed into heaven.
- We are resuscitated on the third
day after death and live on as males and females in the Spiritual World.
- Marriages can last to eternity.
- Heaven is a kingdom of usefulness - not idleness.
- Heaven and Hell are both states of mind in which we can be while here on earth. Whichever path we choose is
how we live on after death forever.
- No one is cast into hell - we choose it by what we love and how we live.
- Heaven is not a reward for so many good things we've done or for having the right faith - we choose it by
what we love and how we live.
- No one's sins are washed away by baptism. It is a sign that a person may be reborn spiritually if he or
she puts away evils in life and lives well.
- If a child dies (wherever born
and under whatever religious faith) he or she will go to heaven and will be
raised there and live there forever.
- God's greatest desire is to preserve
our freedom. Often bad things happen, but God will not prevent them if that
is what we (or the human family) choose to do in freedom. However, it must
be possible that some good may be the end result or God will not allow it.
- The Second Coming of Jesus Christ
is not in a physical manifestation - He did that already. The Second Coming
is God's coming to the minds of individuals with truth - truth that we may freely
choose to follow or reject. It is a greater awareness of all things and a
greater understanding of God. The Second Coming has been happening since the
age of enlightenment and reason. We believe that a great part of this deeper
understanding was given by God through the theological Writings of Emanuel
Swedenborg.
- The first thing we need to do
is stop bad habits, destructive tendencies, and evil actions and the second
thing we need to do is to be kind. We can't do the second until we have done
the first. We don't have to ask what good things we should do, but what hurtful
things we need to stop doing.