Back To The Future became a mega hit in the 80s. It still is a highly-respected cult classic enjoyed by generations after its released.We love to see Marty's antics of trying to avoid his mother's advances, and his struggles to get his parents to fall in love again. This movie is so well praised that it has a part II and a part III.
The best part of the movie is what screenwriters call a payoff. Throughout the movie there are dozens of setups such as listed above. One major one is Marty's father is a overly weak social loser. Yet when Marty returns to the future, in 1985, his father becomes successful and confident. This was a major perk of having a time machine. To be able to change your destiny, rewrite the wrong history in which your life course is headed.
Why Do We Love Time Machines So Much?
The idea that we can go back and change our lives to become better people, is a hope of all people which spans from history until now.
You do have a time machine. Through God's dispensation, we have a way to return, not only our individual mistakes, but the mistakes of our ancestor which we inherited through blood connections.
If you had a time machine, where would you go first - to the past and then back to the future or straight on into the future?
It is a dream that we might sometimes wish as we get older and regret starts to set in. What if we could go back and change the history of God's providence?
From the standpoint of The Divine Principle, we see that there were hundreds of mistakes made by many of God's chosen people. These mistakes directly affect our broken world today.
If we could go back to the time of those mistakes, we would change the history. Such mistakes like that of Adam and Eve, also Cain and Abel. We would have the Israelites follow Moses instead of falling into faithlessness and enjoy Canaan immediately after being freed from Egypt.
This is also God's dream. To return to history and to restore it. This is called the Providence of Restoration. The idea of a time machine in the physical world may not be ready for the market, but the idea of returning to a time of a past wrong has been God's process of restoring man to his original ideal. Through His chosen representatives, God plans to return to his ideal of Heaven on Earth and bring us to a true World of Peace.
God's Time Machine
Where does God return in His time machine? He returns to the beginning where humanity first turned away from God's path toward the ideal world. Where would this be?
God would return to the Garden of Eden. Once He returns there, restoration is complete.
Then, what does "to fulfill the ideal of creation" mean?
It completes a True Man and a True Woman on earth. The whole creation will be united centering on a restored Adam and Eve as a True Man and True Woman. Then Adam and Eve will have True Children. According to the Divine Principle textbook, this is called the Four-Position Foundation. The three relationships created are between Husband and Wife, Brother and Sister, and parent and child.
What is the fourth relationship?
These three positions are centered relating to God.
God's will is the completion of God's purpose or ideal of creation. When God created all things, He did so absolutely with a purpose. Then, who is the center of this purpose? It was Adam and Eve.
The Four-Position Foundation is the foundation of the family centering on God, in which a God-centered Adam and Eve become an ideal couple completely uniting, and multiply children. Adam and Eve become united through the love of husband and wife centering on God.
Were the original Adam and Eve an ideal couple who centered their life on God? Were they married before they left the Garden of Eden or after? Was God able to bless their union?
It was God's ideal that Adam and Eve wait for His commandment to be married centered on Him. Instead they left their position and followed Lucifer away from God. We have been repeating this without fail for thousands of biblical years.
What was God's purpose of creation? It was not just to watch Adam and Eve. The reason for creating man and woman was not just for each of them to live on earth without purpose, then become old and die. God's purpose of creation was for Adam and Eve to fully mature under God's guidance, and when they recognize their feelings toward the opposite sex, to create humankind's true heaven on earth.
This would create a world of love centering on God. Here, the male Adam would represent heaven, and the female Eve would represent earth. Then as Adam and Eve became united horizontally, centering on love, heaven and earth would automatically have united into one.
Imagine a world where Adam and Eve chose to wait on God to become a couple and have a family.
You and I would be born into a good lineage directly linked to God without sin. There would be no need for a Messiah. A Messiah comes to save. So, if Adam and Eve had followed God's law, Heaven on Earth and Heaven in Heaven would have been created automatically based on their marriage.
How Can a Marriage Restore a World?
All of creation is based on a relationship of two.
The process of bringing about the ideal of creation does not end merely by men and women getting married and uniting through love. After this, they must experience having sons and daughters, because heaven and earth are formed from a principle wherein everything is linked in relationships of high and low and front and back, plus and minus, and subject and object.
If there is a yesterday, there is a today; if there is a today, there is a tomorrow. Everything must be connected through a relationship of two or a partner. If husband and wife are the higher position, then there must be children in the lower position. If there is no lower, there is no meaning. The principle of heaven and earth includes the relationship of high and low and left and right; husband and wife make up the left and right.
Perfect Adam and Perfect Eve were meant to be blessed in Holy Marriage under God, and then have True Children. This is why we call children the object of love who can initiate new hope.
Remember in Back to the Future when Marty had gone back to 1955? How was history changed when he saved his father from 1955 from being hit by the car? He intervened in the very event that made his parents fall in love.
So, Marty made a mistake when he saved his father and thus this had a ripple effect in ending his very own existence. If his parents don't fall in love in 1955, he can't be born. So, frantically, Marty and Doc Brown spend the whole movie making his mother fall for his father in another way. If Marty fails to restore his mother and father's relationship, then his family will not exist, thus, he will not exist.
This ironically details God's work to save the world by going into the past and working through restoring the first family where the mistake began. Where Lucifer had intervened in God's first family and prevented them from connecting to God thus, God's family could not come into existence.
In essence, Back to the Future Marty rightfully describes how Lucifer acted between Adam and Eve. To reverse this mistake, God plans to return to that time and center restoration on a perfected man and perfected woman who center their love relationship on him as Adam and Eve were meant to do.
Four-Position Foundation
There is one aspect of creation that is more important to God than creating Adam and Eve. This was the absolute dream of Adam and Eve completing the Four-Position Foundation which is to have a True Family centered on True Love.
Every being in creation develops based on a circular relationship with a partner. One representing plus or subject, and the other a minus or object. Minus does not mean lower or bad in that context.
Just imagine two magnets that are on a refrigerator, one is a plus quality, the other is a minus. When they are introduced they come together. Negative quality does not degrade their value.
We also relate in this way as humans. Teacher (subject) to student (object), parent (subject) to child (object) are just two examples of these relationships. How about man, woman and husband and wife.
God created Adam as a representative of a plus which is the subject. Eve is a representative of minus which is the object. Then Adam is object of God. God lost this ideal when Adam and Eve centered their love relationship outside of God's realm. God's ideal will be complete when His True Son and True Daughter have True Children who center their love on Him.
Therefore, parents think that they have fulfilled their responsibility when all their sons and daughters have married. When a husband and wife become parents, and when their children get married, the higher and lower relationship is realized for the first time. Only when this higher and lower relationship is realized, then the ideal manifested.
A husband and wife in a left and right relationship become united, but it is only when they become parents with children, forming an upper and lower relationship, that the horizontal (human) and the vertical (God) are linked and they can realize the universal, ideal world.
Furthermore, when brothers and sisters become linked to this relationship, at last a circular motion is realized around the world. In order to complete the realization of the ideal, we must be able to form a circle in which the vertical (God) and the horizontal (humanity) are linked. When a man and a woman each come to feel this double realm of the realized ideal, they are able to live in accordance to God's word.
What does this mean? This is what Unification Thought calls the Four-Position Foundation. Therefore we can say that to complete the ideal of creation means to complete the Four Position Foundation.
The four positions again are the relationship of True Brother and True Sister, True Parent and True Children, True Husband and True Wife, True Family and God. Centered on this ideal multiplying around the earth, God's ideal that he had during the creation will be realized as the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.
Return for tomorrow's post: Why World History Repeats Itself Part I
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NOTE:
The Divine Principle was used today for the text written above. This textbook is based on the teachings of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. To learn more about the Unification Movement, please visit: www.familyfed.org.
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