Mind is still blown that Johnny Appleseed and Helen Keller were both followers of Swedenborg's teachings.

I absolutely adore these comparison videos. I'm learning a lot. Thank you so much for laying out the facts.

Very good. Just lay out the facts and let people think for themselves. Refreshing.

Emmanuel Swedenborg's doctrine of eternal marriage is similar to what St John Chrysostom wrote in the Letter to a Young Widow. It is also similar to what the Eastern Orthodox Church teaches about marriage continuing after death.

Swedenborg wrote about Heaven and Hell that people in the afterlife are put with people like their selves. For instance, peaceful, loving persons are put with similar people, and that is Heaven. In contrast, selfish, angry persons are put with persons like themselves, and that is Hell. That seems to me to make sense. What do you thihk?

The wonders of KZfaq - I got a "get rich quick" advert in the middle of this presentation. The love of money pokes its nose in seemingly everywhere.

Great channel! Greetings from Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren

New Church Swedenborgianism seems to be closer to my spiritual instinct than Evangelical Christianity.

I was raised a very nominal Christian, finally got serious about religion a few years ago, and tried to find a Church to join. I actually considered joining the New Church for a couple of weeks, but eventually decided against it. I wound up a Catholic, but that's another story entirely.

Great video, thank you for making it

Simple and clear. I am struck by the similarities between Swedenborg, Joseph Smith and Sun Myung Moon.

For a religion with fewer than 2000 members, they sure have some nice looking church buildings. Or so Wikipedia informs me.

Hellen Keller was a follower of Swedenborgianism and a member of that church. So was "Johnny Appleseed".

I'm always uncomfortable when people say, "you're such a good person the way you're always helping others", because I feel I'm only a vessel for God's good to flow through me . I'm not good . God is the good.

I’m finishing a book by RA Torrey where he mentions several different movements during his day like Christian Science New Thought Theosophy Unitarianism Modernism Spiritualism. I started to check to see who the founders of these groups were and threre you are with a video about him. I couldn’t help but think that we are seeing a movement today where people are reporting visions and seeing angels some even claiming to have seen Jesus and talked to him. Many believe the office of prophet and apostle continues and there is a five fold ministry. They don’t go by New Church but call the movement NAR. Anyway the issues RA Torrey was seeing and dealing with back then appear to be mixing with some evangelical circles today. Thank you for this video. I wish I had viewed it first. Your videos have saved me a lot of research.

it's interesting to note that angels being people who went to heaven is a popular sort of "folk theology" among christians without theological education, like how people say "heaven gained another angel" in response to a loved one dying, or basically any pop culture depiction of heaven

Nice work!

My first boyfriend’s family were Swedenborgians. They are really nice, spiritual and ecumenical people and my mother still sees them all the time.

That's MODALISM , PATRICK!

Well done once again you have done a good research on The Church of the new Jerusalem. BTW... Emanuel Swedenborg predicted his own death on March 29th 😊 Merry Christmas.!

Swedenborg is extremely logical. More than the Bible. I do not belirve in original sin.

The idea that angels are the righteous dead is not unique to Swedenborgism. Highway to Heaven and It's a Wonderful Life both espouse this view, as do many Mormon denominations.

Thanks for presenting this. My experience with Christianity was revived after I encountered the thoughts of Swedenborg. I'm not a member of any. Church.

@15:10. This comparison chart is wrong in regards to Swedonborg's belief/understanding of hell. The various denominations of the the New Church i won't speak to but Swedenborg made it clear in numerous writings that hell IS a place of torment and suffering. See for example, Divine Providence #296: "Moreover, someone who introduces himself more interiorly and deeply into societies in [hell] becomes like one bound in chains. But as long as he lives in the world, he does not feel the chains. They are as though made of soft wool, or of delicate silk threads, which he loves because they titillate him. But after death those chains from being soft become hard, and from being titillating become biting."

I'm a catholic that studies and follows the New Church

If anyone wants to understand New Church (Swedenborgian) doctrine, the book True Christian Religion is a great place to start..

Its amazing how much closer he was to Eastern Orthodox beliefs... I think the comparison implies a more godly kind and loving peoples to Evangelical Christianity which Ive been part off

Great video

I love Swedenborg, I believe he told the truth. I'm currently reading Heaven and Hell and watch Off The Left Eye. God bless you all on your journey of this world.

Can you do extinct denominations like the Glasites?

I read somewhere that the view of heaven, shown in the movie "What Dreams May Come", was taken from Swedenborgianism.

A huge portion of lay evangelicals and baptists I've met in the rural U.S. believe humans recieve wings in heaven or that their relatives become guardian angels and can watch over the living.

Hola, ¿Podrías resumir las creencias de la Nueva Iglesia Apostólica o movimiento de Edward Irving? ¿También de la iglesia del recobro de Witness Lee, la Sociedad Misionero Mundial de Corea, la Iglesia de Dios Todopoderoso China, La iglesia de Dios Universal o Armstrongismo del Israelismo Británico, Las iglesias espiritualistas trinitarias Marianas o Eliasismo, las Asambleas de Yawhew, The last reformation y la iglesia la luz del mundo?

Johnny Appleseed is well known about here in metro-Fort Wayne but I didn't know he was preaching Swedenborg stuff.

Wait...so, Johnny Appleseed was a real person!?!? 😳

Will you make a video on Latter-Day Saints? I'm a member of the church and feel like we are often ignored despite having over 16 million members and meetinghouses and temples all over the world.

I just learned about this via Finding your Roots. I was thrilled as this mirrors my beliefs as I have fallen from organized Christianity of today!

Do Gnostic next!

The Christian Mysticism of historical figures such as Origen and Angelus Silesius is where the New Church and Roman Catholicism overlap in likeness. Look at what Origen said about dashing infants against stones. Swedenborg, centuries later, indicates a similar esoteric divine meaning is extracted by the spiritual sight of those regenerated in Christ.

I kind of get why Swedenborg cut out the OT books - it appears that he came to this conclusion through Jesus' words in Luke 24.44, "These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me." Therefore, Swedenborg took the Torah, Nevi'im, and the book of Tehillim (Psalms), and rejected the rest of the Ketuvim, except for Lamentations, which has historically been associated as the work of Prophet Jeremiah and the book of Daniel, which in the western tradition is considered a work of major prophesy. An Evangelical defense for this verse would be that Jesus was referring to the entirety of the Ketuvim when he called it "Psalms," since the name "Ketuvim" may not have been widely used in his day. It was a common Jewish practice to refer to whole books or groups of books by that which begins them (take for example the quotation from Zechariah attributed to Jeremiah in Matthew 27.9-10 or the names of the books of the Torah in Hebrew being each one's first word: Bereshit, Shemot, Wayiqra, Bemidbar, Devarim).

Do Old Catholic church

The beliefs “New Church” are founded on sound very similar to a sect called “The Church” who uses their own Bible called “The Recovery Version. They also have their own lauded guru (either Witness Lee or Watchman Nee) who they claim possessed the correct interpretation of the Bible.

Swedenborg's teaching on "the Lord's Divine Human" reminds me of "Adam Kadmon", the Divine Pre-existent Man, and important concept in Jewish Kabbalah and Western esotericism. I wonder if someone has written something on that.

Compare Catholic Erasmus to Swedenborg. "Consider as the devil all things that deter you from Christ and his teaching." ~ Desiderius Erasmus "If you do not abstain from sin, then you are still in it; and sin is the Devil." ~ Volume 2 of True Christianity 567:4 (Rose Translation)

Evangelicals teach that doing good things to obtain salvation condems people to hell??!😮 Seriously?? I'm from part of the world where there are not many evangelicals, I'm mostly familiar with catholic, orthodox, lutheran and calvinistic churches, those american spiritual movements are quite exotic to me and I hear for the first time that doing works make you damnable. Are there really some denominations that teach that? I get protestant idea of faith alone, but faith alone=/=doing works sends you to hell.

The father of William & Henry James was a swedenborgian and his beliefs had very strong (not in a positive way) influences on all his children. He held that all disease had a spiritual origin and emotional problems were caused by dark influences on the person's spirit.

Salvation comes by Grace through Faith and that not of works lest any man should boast,

Several books? 17 - 7 million words

first church i heard of with the option of rebaptism. and why deny adam

"I am Locutus of Swedenborgianism; resistance is futile."

Seems that Joseph Smith and Brigham Young might have had considerable exposure to Swedenborg’s thought.

Are they somehow related to the New Apostolic Church?

"In the Resurrection they will be like the Angels." - Jesus Christ "As He is so are You in this world (speaking of the Son)." - Bible. "You entertain Angels without realising it." - Bible

Love Swedenborgianism! As a Mahayana Buddhist, I find their teachings very much similar to ours, in fact it seems more like Mahayana buddhism than Christianity in some cases.

There is a Way.... God's Way. Jesus showed us the Way. If God's Word is inspired by God then the rhemas can be trusted as a way to live. The church is built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets... Jesus Christ Himself being the Chief Cornerstone.

Thanks God revealing himself to Swedenborg. However, if sin was not happening, will evil happen? If sin was not happening, will people worship God? I see addressing evil but don't recognize sin is illogical. The reason why he doesn't start a church was probably he worried about some observations could be opinions since no human beings are perfect: again, that's sin. Also what does it exactly mean "good life" in his opinion? 😂

SCNA has abandoned the practice of rebaptism. I was (re)confirmed.

Mormonism has a lot of Swendenborg principals in it. Joseph taught a lot about multiple levels of heaven etc.

Swedenborg affirmed the need for rebirth. He called it regeneration. But before a baby is born it first has to form in the womb. So a reborn person has to first go through a gestation period during which he is reformed - his life has to outwardly conform to God's Commandments. And starting this whole process off is the re-conception.This is a repentance that isn't just a notion in the mind but a heartfelt realisation and acknowledgement that all good and truth originates in God, and of himself the person is motivated by nothing but evil, lies and deception. When a person is regenerated they have a new heart. They now love to do the will of God. So the article quoted saying all you have to do is live well and believe rightly and you'll be saved is not accurate unless your heart is truly in living a spiritual life and believing truth.

Is the person who writes Family Circus a Swedenborgian? He has dead people as angels in his comic strip

It's interesting to me that some of Swedenborg's ideas are technically inaccurate expressions of good doctrine.

Bro, Johnny Appleseed

I love how you carefully expose heresy without having to use the word 🙂

I think it only fair to say that blanketedly universalism and evangelicalism are misrepresented by doing so. I don't know about SB.

I am posting for a censored voice (The Rooted Word www.youtube.com/@TheRootedWord): "3:20 depends on what you mean by "body". If you mean also that which is contained in the body, as in sin, then Jesus' body was indeed different, having never known sin. Our bodies which have known sin are different indeed from Jesus' body. Sin leaves its mark on the physical body and is so intricately tied to it that it is referred to as the flesh or carnality. I know this has been obscured in recent decades in the Evangelical churches, but I am sure if pressed they will acknowledge this is true."

The General Church does not ordain women either, regardless of who they sleep with.

Swedenborg’s beliefs are indeed an interesting separation from the mainstream.

The problem with the new church, it appears far from what Jewish Christians of the 1st century knew and practice. In hebrew terms, they appears like the samaritans, who only accepts the torah as scriptures, not the wisdom books or the prophets... Also, only Yeshua is the way, the truth, and the life. We are saved by faith and end with faith, we do good because we love Yeshua. Also, there is no marriage in heaven as per Yeshua

A great visionary! Love him!

2:32 It is not accurate to say Swedenborgianism shares the view of the trinity that oneness pentecostals have. We affirm the existence of the trinity within the one person of Jesus Christ. You will also find that this is not modalism either. God does not switch between three forms, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are God all at once all the time.

Swedenborg had alot of truth but he was Decived this is why your not supposed to enter spiritual realms by astral projection he went through a separate gate therefore spirits decived him like Paul being in hell familiar spirits are real

I love Swedenborg!

I can't decide whether Swedenborgianism or True Jesus Church is the one, true religion.

Jesus created One Church. See Matt 16:18. The pillar and foundation of truth, see 1 Tim 3:15. and the Final Authority, see Matt 18:15-17. All Protestant churches are Man made. They are all 500 years old, 400, 300, 200, 100, 50, 20, or last week, depending on who started them. If you don't like the preacher's preaching (since that's what Protestant churches are all about), you can just go down the road to another one, or even rent a storefront and start your own "Church of What's Hapnin Now".... In 107AD, St Ignatius of Antioch, a Bishop in Jesus's One Church, wrote a letter calling it "Catholic" or Universal. The name stuck. The people in his Church were united in their beliefs and teachings for 1500 years, as commanded by Jesus in John 17:20-21 and by Paul in 1 Cor 1:10. Along came people like Martin Luther, John Calvin, Henry VIII, and others and what do we have today? Thousands upon thousands of man made Protestant (as in Protest), denominations, all believing different doctrines and beliefs, yet all reading the same (incomplete) Bible, all interpreting and misinterpreting it wrongly. Examples of non-biblical man made beliefs : the Bible Alone, Faith Alone, Once Saved Always Saved, a merely symbolic Baptism, and there are plenty more.

Christian orthodoxy holds that Christ is still human even now.

Swedenborg is so kind. I love it.

People always get off track with “new revelations”. Just trust the Bible, Gods word that He has chosen to reveal to us, all we need for salvation and godliness.

Locutus of Swedenborg.

In simpler terms, for those of you who do not know, he believed in Modalism! By which means that God functions differently in each persona of the treasury obviously and on biblical doctrine.

Swedenborg underrated

I am not understanding what you are attempting to do with your channel. You seem to be operating from the perspective that Evangelicalism is correct. I have seen little to no evidence that this is the case.

Your research is somewhat spotty on both ends. As reformed Protestants, evangelical or not, we don’t believe that doing good works to save your soul. Will get you in to help. We just know that that is not the way to get into Heaven.

I've read swedenborg book heaven and hell and he said their are three levels of each and the people in hell keep their eyes on their sin and people in heavenkeep their eyes on Christ please read Heaven and hell

The Swedenborg version is a lot more positive and fair of course, and sounds more credible too, especially since we know who Swedenborg was whereas the authors of the Bible were mostly anonymous and dubious.

Sounds like Mormonism, Catholicism and The Good Place got all combined together. Plus a sprinkle of universalism?

Evangelical "christianity" is heretical in that it says, as you put it, all one simply needs to do is believe, when our Lord Jesus (as well as Peter, Paul, John, and James) plainly says we also have remain in Him by obeying His commandments and endure to the end -- the end being death and the last judgment. In preaching against the necessity of remaining in Jesus, the evangelical movement is leading a lot of people away from Jesus and thus to Hell and damnation. The problem with Swedenborg's gospel -- even more heretical than evangelicalism -- is that he thinks we just have to do good according to our own conscience, a very humanistic approach and certainly not even in Christ to begin with, let alone remaining in Him. For this reason, Swedenborg is farther along the spectrum of heresy. But nonetheless, both evangelicalism and Swedenborg are wrong. And really they are on the same spectrum, for in the "just me and my Bible" and "all I need is my own faith" mentality of evangelicals, they essentially put themselves on the humanistic spectrum of Swedenborg, who claims we just follow our own conscience. In both evangelical heresy and Swedenborg heresy, the fundamental assumption is that each individual man gets to decide what God says, not God or His Church, whether through interpreting the Bible for oneself (evangelicalism) or simply following one's own conscience (Swedenborg). Both these positions are lacking dependence on Jesus Christ and His Church that He established and relying more on human efforts. The truth is, the Bible teaches us to be obedient and to be zealous for holiness, remaining in our Lord Jesus and His commandments. Read 2 Peter and you will see that the gospel is not protestant. Peter says, "Know this first of all, that there is no prophecy of scripture that is a matter of personal interpretation." And so says Paul... "as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction."

I want to level up and become an alien though

He is Borg

Sounds like a topic for @cultish to cover!

Swedenborg was a bit of a nutter

I'll have what ever he was drinking!

Nothing "New" about these groups, just a slightly different packaging of old heresies.

Joseph Smith is the prophet of the restoration of the true and living church on the earth today.

I was just wondering. I’ll stick with traditional Christianity

This guy was a lunatic.

This cult gets weirder and weirder by the minute.

This is why you base your faith on Scripture, not on a loon’s visions.

If you're having visions, you ought to think about seeing a psychiatrist

More proxy posting (The Rooted Word www.youtube.com/@TheRootedWord): " 8:30 Not all Evangelicals truly believe in the inerrancy of Scripture. Many scientists who are Evangelicals reject the literal meaning of the Creation accounts in Genesis 1 & 2. " 8:39 Not all Evangelicals believe in Original Sin and in fact MANY do not... here is a study gospelstudies.org.uk/theologicalstudies/pdf/sin_parker.pdf 14:40 Absolutely not true about what Evangelicals think TODAY. If you catch up on recent studies you'll find few Evangelicals believe Hell is a literal place and instead that it is separation from God, which they also claim is the punishment (in place of physical torment), purely psychological in lieu of physical.