2. 新天國與新教會的信仰, 就總體而言, 概述如下:

永恆之主耶和華, 降臨人間征服地獄, 並榮耀祂的人身; 若非如此, 無人能被拯救; 信祂的人得拯救。

以上被稱為該信仰的總體形式, 是信仰的普遍原則。信仰的普遍原則必存於信仰的整體和細節之中。上帝的本質和位格是一, 聖三一集於這一, 這一就是主耶穌基督, 這是信仰的一個普遍原則。若非主降臨人間, 則無人得救, 這是信仰的一個普遍原則。主降臨人間(那時地獄勢力侵犯人間), 藉著與地獄爭戰並戰勝制服它, 從而移除地獄, 使其歸入秩序並服從於祂, 這是信仰的一個普遍原則。主降臨人間, 榮耀祂在人間所取之人, 就是將這人與神性聯合, 從而永遠地保持地獄歸入秩序並服從於祂; 這樣的聯合唯有藉著祂所取之人被准許接受各樣的試探而得以成就, 甚至最後接受終極的試探——十字架受難, 祂忍受並得勝了; 這是信仰的一個普遍原則。這些是關於主這方面信仰的幾個普遍原則。

關於我們人這方面:

人應當信主, 因為通過信主, 人得以與主聯合, 從而被得拯救。信主就是篤信主施行拯救; 因為唯有那些過良善生活者方有如此信心, 因而這也是信祂之意。主在約翰福音中教導:父的意思是叫一切見子而信的人得永生(約翰福音6:40)。在另一處:信子的有永生。不信子的不得見永生; 上帝的震怒常在他身上(約翰福音3:36)。

1205. That 'the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites' were just so many nations, who also mean just so many different forms of idolatry, and that those nations mean forms of idolatry, is clear from many places in the Word, for they were inhabitants of the land of Canaan who on account of their idolatry were rejected and partially destroyed. In the internal sense of the Word however it is not those nations that are meant but the forms of idolatry themselves - in general as they exist anywhere at all, and in particular among the Jews. For people who make worship consist solely in externals and have no wish at all to learn of internals, and who when instructed reject them, incline very much to all these forms of idolatry, as is all too clear in the case of the Jews. internal worship alone holds within it the bonds that keep a person back from idolatry, and once those bonds cease to exist there is nothing to hold him back. There are however not only external forms of idolatry but also interior. Into external forms of idolatry rush those people who possess external worship devoid of internal, and into interior forms those people rush possessing external worship whose interiors are foul. These forms of idolatry are likewise meant by these nations. Interior forms of idolatry are just so many falsities and evil desires which they love and adore and which thus take the place of the gods and idols which existed among gentile nations. It would take too long to explain here however which particular falsities and evil desires they are that people adore and which are meant by these nations - by the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites. In the Lord's Divine mercy this will be discussed in the places where these names occur.