Friday 4 March 2011

'The New Church, based on the Old and New Testaments, and the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, teaches how Jesus saves, consistent with our knowledge of a loving God. (...)The Lord God Jesus Christ saved us by showing us how to live our lives. His entire life on earth was about overcoming evils and temptations, and his death was the conclusion of that struggle.'

'In order to bring the light of truth to the world, God came again. However, this time He did not appear in human form. He came as a new body of revelation given to us through the works of Emanuel Swedenborg, an eighteenth century scientist and theologian. A New Christianity was established in response to these truths, helping to spread God's teachings to people on earth. The New Church is one of many organizations dedicated to Swedenborg Theology.' From: newchurch.org

Er, just another 'christian' site I checked out.

So apparently 'Jesus saved us, not through his death, but through his life. He overcame evil and restored a sense of balance in the world, leaving us in freedom to choose good or evil. He taught us how we should live our lives; in fact he showed us how to do it.'

This site says nothing about man's sin and death as a consequence of sin and being so horrid in the sight of God that it must be punished and justice satisfied (Romans 3) Nor does it say that Jesus died as a punishment for sin (Rom 5:6-8) or of the salvation that comes on believing this, namely that Christ died for the ungodly, for sinners in order to bring them in repentance to God (Rom 5:9-11) and completely ignores grace (Eph 2).

People. Check out these sites and whether or not you can trust them, for the sake of those who are not saved and who look at your blogs and may actually follow these links, believing that they'll find out what the gospel is.

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