If God is a God of love and it is said that He created the world for love, why do humans who are the highest entity still look for, search and hope for love and peace? We have said that there was an origin to this disconnection, where must we begin if we are to finally settle this road of the fall and return it to the time of peace once enjoyed in the Garden of Eden?
God, the origin of peace
Humanity since the beginning has never ceased in its quest for true love, true peace, true happiness and the true ideal that is everlasting and unchanging to this day. The reality is finding the ideal love, happiness and peace in which we reach in this hostile world that has been lost. In this search, we have walked blindly through an alley and have been smashing our heads against the wall looking for what was meant to be from the beginning.
We have fallen into a miserable, suffering condition in which the hope of fulfilling these ideals is lost. If God is living, then being an eternal, unchanging and absolute being, he must be at the center of all of these ideals. He transcends the constant varying ideals in which we center on ourselves. He is the King and source of love, peace, happiness and the ideal.
Man has been trying all through history to create the ideal conditions we are looking for. To this day true love, happiness and peace must be found at its source. Man must come to a position where they reach the same standard as God with the same place of hope, sharing life's sweetness and bitterness. Without God, man cannot ever have hope to bring about a world of peace
Man is the object partner of God's love, ideal, peace and happiness. He then gains eternal life when he learns that by standing where he can serve God as his subject partner, as his Father in Heaven. This is the most logical conclusion to begin speaking about bringing about an ideal world.
Man who thinks that there is no afterlife, just learn that if he is an eternal partner of God and His child who will live eternally.
We all understand that God is the subject partner and we are the object partner. We can take it a step further and will see a problem. We need to know exactly where the source of true love is. Without knowing the source we cannot realize God's love, ideal, peace and happiness. Where would God place the source of true love, peace, happiness and ideal centering on Himself?
When we truly think about the fact that God does not stand alone as an subject partner, but needs man in order to love as an object, then he must place the source of happiness, love and peace in Himself as the subject partner where He exist for His object partner man.
Adam and Eve are the incarnation of God. God dwells directly in their hearts.
Thus, the internal and external masters meet and generate all the world's happiness, becoming the standard of universal peace and the absolute standard of happiness in complete union.
Is there a way to untangle this great chaos that was started in the earthly world or must we as humans abandon hope and just wait every day to be a day of despair? Definitely not. There is one basic solution to this problem based on the premise - absolute God exists.
The current world we are living is not the world that God planned to substantiate on earth. He intended a world of peace without disorder.
If you remember the 1999 movie "The Matrix" when one of the Agents was explaining after they had captured Morpheus in the office building deprogramming his mind, the Agent told him about the first Matrix.
He said that they had developed the Matrix to be a world of peace, but none of the crops accepted this world and they lost mostly all of them. In other words, he said thereafter that we humans could not have peace and we like filth and chaos. Absolutely profound revelation when we compare this scene to what happened in the Garden of Eden. The Garden of Eden was full of peace and God's direct love was bestowed upon Adam and Eve everyday, yet they still went toward the archangel who told them untruths and to do opposite of God.
The world that God had intended to substantiate on earth was a true Utopia
abounding in freedom, peace and happiness. Cherishing the ideal of Utopia in His
heart, God searched for earthly man with frustration.
The way that man comes up with solutions for the current world problems are not viable or everlasting. Because man was not fully aware of God's purpose of creation or even His existence, the world was thrown into utter confusion. Throughout the thousands of years of history, religion has had its major problems and corruption, but without it man would not have a way to learn about God's existence. God gave religion to man as a way to teach of Him and to return His children to His bosom.
Man searched for this Utopia they had once enjoyed freely in the Garden of Eden. Instead, they roamed through darkness racked in agony amid great chaos. God's ideal, which He sought with much frustration to achieve, and man's longing search for the Utopia are the same. This Heaven on Earth will be realized once man and God's ideal meet. This meeting has not taken place in any form and leaves man groaning in anguish ever since. What kind of a being is God's He is a God of Love.
Saint Paul asked, "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?" Even Christ is nobody without God's love, so we cherish God's love more than anything.
God's love is the source of life, happiness and peace. You will know this if you have some spiritual experiences.
When man dreams of peace based solely on his own ideas, no matter what solution they come up with creatively it will not offer any hope. The dream of a future full of peace, unity or oneness that goes beyond the present day of utter confusion is only an illusion unless there is a stronger power. Without God, peace is impossible.
If the omniscient and omnipresent God has been laboring for thousands of years to guide us, why can't He lead us toward a world where His purpose of goodness can be fulfilled. Are we moving away from the ideal toward destruction and despair?
This is a serious problem. If we were to analyze the world's situation, we may surmise that there is no God. Is it possible for a world of peace or some utopia in the future if we conclude that God does not exist? Philosophers and thinkers have sought this perfect world throughout the course of history.
Since these types of people have not been able to bring about a solution, we cannot think that manpower alone will solve humanity's problems in the future.
Through historical experience, man concludes that it is impossible to attain this end, yet his original nature does not yield easily.
Regardless of race and tradition, we can see that the ultimate goal in life is but one way.
Whether Eastern or Western, people have sought after the eternal true love, peace, happiness and the ideal even in the midst of the state of sin, mistrust and confusion. Humankind has pursued all different ways to achieve happiness which the original mind desires by following the desire to pursue goodness.
If man alone has not been able to relinquishment the fallen history, then they must be able to rely on an even stronger power that is higher than man. Man is a unique being which knows its own limitations. Man is incapable of determining his own destiny, going beyond himself so he naturally must look for a greater subject partner, God who knows how to make this path feasible.
If God still yearns for true love, peace, happiness and his true ideal, then that goal is possible through Him alone. Man must fully bring to reality what God has shown him in order to fulfill the ideal requisites man has sought throughout history by calling on God.
"If it is something people just desire, the transcendental force and the propensity for relationship with which God has operated from behind our lives, can pervade everything."SMM
Without realizing it himself, man today is looking for a world of peace and happiness while pursuing freedom. This is the evidence that he is still not standing on the fundamental foundation of freedom, peace and happiness.
There is only one path in life for an individual, family, society, nation and world. Every road we all must follow points toward a world of peace full of love and happiness. This ideal must be established through mutual relationships.
Even the almighty God can not accomplish this by Himself. This is not blasphemous to say. Do you realize that if God had the ability to get rid of sin and usher in heaven on Earth, He would have done that back in the Garden of Eden the moment after the fall occurred?
If God lives as the absolute and almighty being, then all things which He created including man must be free if God is free. If God is in a peaceful place, then man must be in the same place He is.
We can deduce the fact that if there is no freedom, happiness and peace in the human world, God, its Creator, can neither be free nor happy, but must be in a miserable position.
This is known as the fall of man in today's religious world. The fall is comparable to falling off the original foundation, from a position where perfection can be reached to an imperfect position.
Once humans grow and mature through the foundation of their parents' love and give birth to children through conjugal spousal love, the family was to establish a foundation for perfect happiness. Yet, we know our lives have not resulted in such a life full of perfect peace and freedom. This is completed by the Second Advent who brings the Completed Testament and as humanity follows these words of God to bring about the world of peace longed throughout history.
Return for Tomorrow's Post: A World of Peace
This post was rewritten and derived from the Textbook: Sun Myung Moon's Philosophy of Peace, Chapter, What is Peace?
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