BE 117 - The Faith of the New Church

BE 117

The faith of the New Heaven and the New Church,
in its particular form is, is this:

That Jehovah God is love itself and wisdom itself,
or that He is good itself and truth itself;
and that as to the Divine truth itself, which is the Word,
and which was God with God,
He came down and assumed the Human,
for the purpose of restoring to order
all things which were in heaven,
and all things which were in hell,
and all things which were in the church;
inasmuch as at that time,
the power of the devil, that is, of hell,
prevailed over the power of heaven,
and on earth the power of evil over the power of good;
and consequently a total damnation
stood before the door and threatened.
This impending damnation
Jehovah God removed by His Human,
which was the Divine truth,
and thus He redeemed both angels and men;
and afterwards He united in His Human
the Divine truth to the Divine good,
 and thus He returned into His Divine,
in which He was from eternity,
together with His glorified Human.
This is signified by these words in John:

The Word was with God,
and God was the Word;
and the Word became flesh.
(John 1:1, 14)

And by this in the same:

I went forth from the Father,
and am come into the world;
again I leave the world,
and go to the Father.
(John 16:28)