这里是21世纪。我们知道宇宙是一个巨大的地方。我们只是在充斥科学知识。但是，我们如何处理更大的想法？我们的人类社会似乎正在擦除它们，或者无视它们-也许我们认为我们对它们太忙了。

在新基督教圣经研究网站上，我们将逆势而上。我们想探索为我们提供更好生活框架的宏伟构想。这是从新基督教的角度出发的一系列大思想的起点。对于每个想法，都有一个脚注，列出了瑞典堡神学著作中的一些参考文献：

1.上帝存在。仅有一位神创造和维持了整个宇宙的所有层面，无论是精神还是物质。 ¹

2.上帝的本质是爱本身。是驱动一切的力量。 ²

3.上帝的本质在创造中并通过创造而存在，即它的存在。 ³

4.创造的层次或程度-从我们用身体的感官或传感器无法检测到的精神层面，到我们在这里生活时我们大部分意识所在的物理宇宙的层面。 ⁴

5.创造的宇宙来自上帝，它是由上帝维持的，但在重要的方面，它与上帝分离。他希望将其分开，以便自由存在。 ⁵

6.上帝通过爱通过智慧来运作-乐于奉献美好的事物，并理解如何实现它们。 ⁶

7.存在的物质创造水平为人类提供了一个机会，可以理性地自由选择是否承认和与上帝合作。 ⁷

8.上帝为世界各地的所有人提供了自由，使他们可以选择自由地生活在对上帝和邻居的爱中，无论他们的宗教信仰如何。 ⁸

9.上帝爱每个人。他知道，只有当我们无私时，真正的幸福才会来临。当我们真正受到对主的爱的激励时，这种爱就建立在对邻居的爱中。他试图领导所有人，但不会强迫我们违背我们的意愿。 ⁹

10.上帝不审判我们。他告诉我们什么是好的，什么是邪恶的，并渗入我们的思想引导我们走向美好。但是，我们可以自由地拒绝他的领导，而选择最爱自己。我们日复一日地养成慷慨或自私的习惯，并按照这些习惯过着生活。这些习惯成为我们统治的真正“我们”。 ¹⁰

11.我们的肉体最终死亡，但我们心灵的精神部分仍在继续。它已经在精神层面上运作了，但是我们的意识发生了变化-因此我们完全意识到了精神现实。 ¹¹

Imibhalo yaphansi:

57. 由此可见, 天人并非因自己成为天人, 而是藉着与神的如此结合而成为天人。结合的程度如何, 视他们对神性的良善与真理、也就是对神的接受程度如何(良善与真理看似祂从发出, 实际在祂里面)。这样的接受还取决于法则、就是神性真理在他们身上的应用程度, 因为他们有理性思考和意愿的自由(尽管从主而来, 但看似自己拥有)。凭着这样的自由, 他们接收神性的良善与真理, 如同出于自己, 并由此而产生爱的相互性(如第48节所述, 若非相互, 不可能有爱, 爱或被爱是二者之间的相互作用)。世人也是如此。从以上所述可看出：被造宇宙万物都是接受神人爱与智的器皿。

986. And they repented not to give Him glory, signifies that they were unwilling to turn themselves to living according to the Lord's commandments. This is evident from the signification of "repenting," as being to turn themselves from evils and their falsities, here before the Last Judgment and condemnation and punishment come upon them; also from the signification of "giving glory to the Lord," as being to live according to His commandments (See above, n. 874).

(Continuation respecting the Sixth Commandment)

[2] As all the delights that a man has in the natural world are turned into correspondences in the spiritual world, so are the delights of the love of marriage and the delights of the love of adultery. The love of marriage is represented in the spiritual world as a virgin, whose beauty is such as to inspire the beholder with the charms of life; while the love of adultery is represented in the spiritual world by an old woman, whose deformity is such as to inspire in the beholder a coldness and death to every charm of life. Therefore in the heavens the angels are beautiful according to the quality of conjugial love with them, and in the hells the spirits are deformed according to the quality of the love of adultery with them. In a word, the angels of heaven have life in their faces, in the movements of their body, and in their speech, according to their conjugial love, while the spirits of hell have death in their faces according to their love of adultery. In the spiritual world the delights of conjugial love are represented to the sense by odors from fruits and flowers of various kinds, while the delights of the love of adultery are there represented to the sense by the stenches from excrements and putridities of various kinds. Moreover, the delights of the love of adultery are actually turned into such things, since all things pertaining to adultery are spiritual filth. Therefore from the brothels in the hells stenches pour forth that excite vomiting.