Beginning with the revelations given to Swedenborg, the Lord began a spiritual movement or "church" called The New Jerusalem or The New Church. The New Jerusalem is a spiritual concept, meaning that is exists everywhere that the Lord is worshiped as one God, which can and does include people from almost every religion. Within The New Jerusalem, it doesn’t matter where you were born. What makes you a part of the new church is the charitable life you live by. With this church the Lord began a new paradigm, one that wouldn’t decay into the false idea of exceptionalism derived from birth.

There is only one God, the Lord Jesus Christ, but he has the ability to take on many forms and personas. When, in the Bible, Jesus speaks about the Father, he is speaking about his inner self — his soul — and when he speaks about the Holy Ghost, he is speaking about the effect of his actions and energy which radiate out into the universe, all of which are him, but simply different aspects of the same person.

An important concept to understand is that the Father within Jesus is nothing but goodness. Sometimes that goodness may involve punishment, but he never wants that result. He wills that the sin never occurs in the first place, but if it does occur, allowing a consequence is the most loving outcome for everyone, not only to help reform the person, but to protect the innocent.