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Exposición Breve de la Doctrina de la Nueva Iglesia #1

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1. EXPOSICIÓN BREVE DE LA DOCTRINA DE LA NUEVA IGLESIA QUE SE ENTIENDE POR LA NUEVA JERUSALÉN EN EL APOCALIPSIS

Durante los últimos años he dado a publicidad varias obras y tratados respecto a la Nueva Jerusalén, por la cual se entiende la Nueva Iglesia que debe ser establecida por el Señor; y habiendo sido revelado el Apocalipsis, he decidido dar a conocer la doctrina de aquella Iglesia en toda su plenitud. Pero como es una obra que demorará algunos años en terminarse, he creído conveniente esbozar algunos rasgos de ella, a fin de proporcionar una idea general de dicha Iglesia y su Doctrina; porque cuando los principios generales proceden, todas y cada una de las cosas aparecerán después en la plenitud de su luz, porque esta obra entra en lo general como las cosas homogéneas en sus receptáculos. Esta breve exposición, sin embargo, no está diseñada para el examen crítico, sino que se ofrece al mundo como vía de anuncio de la Doctrina, siendo sus contenidos demostrados en la propia obra. Pero las doctrinas sostenidas actualmente respecto a la justificación, serán prefijadas de modo que el siguiente contraste entre las doctrinas de la Iglesia actual y las de la Nueva Iglesia, puedan ser claramente entendidos. Primeramente serán presentadas las doctrinas de hoy al respecto de la justificación.

  
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Apocalipsis 21:2

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2 Y yo Juan vi la santa Ciudad, Jerusalén la nueva, que descendía del cielo, aderezada de Dios, como la esposa ataviada para su marido.

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Arcana Coelestia #3295

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3295. 'And [one] people will prevail over [the other] people' means that at first truth must be superior to the good of truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'people' as truth, dealt with immediately above in 3294, and from the meaning of 'prevailing over' as being superior to. The 'people' mentioned first means truth, whereas the 'people' mentioned second means the good of truth. The good of truth is good which arises out of truth, and, as it exists first of all, is truth. It is called good however because it looks like good. Consequently 'people' also means this good, which is called the good of truth as it is when it first arises.

[2] To have any concept of this good it should be recognized that until he has been regenerated a person does good from truth, but after he has been regenerated he does it from good. Or to make the point clearer still, before he has been regenerated the good he does is a product of the understanding, but after he has been regenerated it is a product of the will. Good therefore which is a product of the understanding is not in itself good but truth, whereas good that is a product of the will is good. For example, when a person does not honour his parents but then learns from the Ten Commandments to do so, his honouring of them is at first a product of the commandment. Such honouring however, being a product of the commandment, is not in itself good because it does not flow from love. It flows either from obedience to the law or from fear of the law, but is nevertheless called the good of truth. When it first arises however it is truth, for at that time it is not good that he performs but truth. When however his honouring of them is the product of love it is in that case good. The same is so in every other example that could be taken.

  
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