Justification (theology)

===The New Church (Emanuel Swedenborg)===
According to the doctrine of [[The New Church]], as explained by [[Emanuel Swedenborg]], the doctrine of justification by faith alone is a false belief which forms the foundation of much of Protestant theology. Man must of his own volition justify himself, and yet believe that justification comes from God only. Not only must man believe in God, but must love God with all his strength, and his neighbor as himself.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Swedenborg |first=Emanuel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wukqAAAAYAAJ |title=The True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New Church, Foretold by the Lord in Daniel, VII. 13, 14, and in the Apocalypse, XXI. 1, 2 |date=1910 |publisher=American Swedenborg printing and publishing society |at=n. 71 |language=en |translator-last=Ager |translator-first=John}}</ref>

Inasmuch as man obeys God's commandment to love others, so God conjoins himself to man, and man to God. It is from this that man's belief becomes a living and saving belief.<ref>Swedenborg, Emanuel. The True Christian Religion, containing the Universal Theology of the New Church, 1771. Trans. by John Ager, 1910, n. 74.</ref>

It is by means of faith from charity, that a man is reformed and justified, and this is done as if from himself, and this proceeds from the Divine Truth which flows in from the Holy Spirit.<ref>Swedenborg, Emanuel. The True Christian Religion, containing the Universal Theology of the New Church, 1771. Trans. by John Ager, 1910, n. 142, 150.</ref> Man is of the will and understanding, and he is saved when both are brought into accordance with God's will.

"Believing in the Lord is not merely acknowledging Him but also doing His commandments; for simply acknowledging Him is solely a matter of thought, arising from somewhat of the understanding; but doing His commandments is also a matter of acknowledgment from the will. Man's mind consists of understanding and will; and as the understanding deals with thinking and the will with doing, so when man's acknowledgment is merely from the thought of the understanding he comes to the Lord with only half of his mind; but when there is doing he comes with all of it; and this is to believe."<ref>Swedenborg, Emanuel. The True Christian Religion, containing the Universal Theology of the New Church, 1771. Trans. by John Ager, 1910, n. 151.</ref>