Editing Swedenborgianism (section)

=== Doctrine of the Lord ===
The New Church's universal principle of faith is that the "Lord from eternity, who is Jehovah, came into the world to subjugate the hells and to glorify His Human; and without this no mortal could have been saved; and those are saved who believe in Him":<ref name="TCR, n. 2">TCR, n. 2.</ref>

{{blockquote|It is a universal principle of faith that God is one in essence and in person, in whom is a Divine trinity, and that He is the Lord God the Savior Jesus Christ. It is a universal principle of faith that no mortal could have been saved unless the Lord had come into the world. It is a universal principle of faith that He came into the world to remove hell from man, and that He did remove it by means of contests with it and victories over it, and thereby He subdued it and reduced it to order and made it obedient to Himself. It is a universal principle of faith that He came into the world to glorify His Human which He took on in the world, that is, to unite it with the Divine from which [are all things], and thereby He eternally holds hell in order and under obedience to Himself. As this could be accomplished only by means of temptations admitted into His Human, even to the last of them, which was the passion of the cross, He endured even that.<ref name="TCR, n. 2"/>}}

From this doctrine, the Trinity is defined as "the three essentials of one God, and they make one as soul, body, and operation make one in man. Before the world was created this Trinity was not; but after creation, when God became incarnate, it was provided and brought about; and then in the Lord God the Redeemer and Savior Jesus Christ."<ref name="TCR, n. 163">TCR, n. 163.</ref> As a trinity of body, soul, and spirit exists in every man, this became the Holy Trinity in Jesus. The doctrine of [[Nontrinitarianism|one God as one person]] distinguishes the New Church from other Christian churches, most of which define the Trinity as three [[Eternity|eternal]] persons. The New Church sees Trinitarianism as illogical: "In the ideas of thought a Trinity of Divine Persons from eternity, or before the world was created, is a Trinity of Gods; and these ideas cannot be effaced by a lip-confession of one God."<ref name="TCR, n. 163"/>

[[Monotheism]] is defined as one God who is one person; only the Lord ([[Jehovah]]) is worshipped. Worship of, and faith in, Jesus is not worshiping a created being: although he was born with a human body, the New Church holds that his soul was eternally divine. When he [[Resurrection of Jesus|rose from the dead]], he discarded the human body he inherited from Mary and put on a human body from the divinity within him (known in the New Church as the Divine Human).<ref>TCR, n. 102.</ref>

According to Swedenborg, [[God the Father]] is the inner divinity which became outwardly manifest in human form known as the [[God the Son|Son]]. Since adherents believe that the [[Tetragrammaton|Lord]] is one with the Father, the [[Lord's Prayer]] is directed to the Lord only. In the opening "Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name", "name" is everything by which God is worshiped (particularly the Son, through whom he is approached).<ref>AC, n. 6887; TCR, n. 112; AR, n. 584, 839.</ref>

According to the [[New Testament]], Jesus sometimes prayed to the Father and declared himself one with the Father at other times. New Church adherents believe that this was because Jesus progressed towards God during his life by gradually [[Kenosis|making his human body one with the divine]].<ref>TCR, n. 104–105.</ref>