Many religions have their own version of this cause.
The Divine Principle teaches that evil came about because God's servant Lucifer went against Him creating Satan.
Satan was not the creation of God. Evil came about because of Satan's will which is the opposite of God's will.
Thus, sin came about when man acted in accordance with Satan's will instead, which is totally against God's Will.
The Source of Evil is Satan.
Satan came into being when the archangel rebelled against God.
God created the archangel as a servant who was originally in a position of obedience to God. This position was not eternal, but temporary once he aided in the perfection of God's children, Lucifer would have been able to choose the best mate among Adam and Eve's offspring. Instead, Lucifer abandoned God and stole Eve for himself.
We must understand how adamant an enemy Satan is and how easy it is in our daily lives to side and sympathize with Satan, thus following his ways.
We currently live in a satanic culture where Satan's will is glorified and made to look beautiful, such as promiscuous sex, lustfulness and bad behavior.
Satan is the one who stopped God from carrying out His will.
Adam and Eve, the first parents of creation carrying God's spirit, are incarnations of God's ideal.
They were originally created as temples of God in whom God would abide forever. Through fulfilling God's will of unity with Him, they could have become the true ancestors to later generations passing on the true tradition of God's sinless lineage.
Instead, Adam and Eve followed the tongue of Satan and fell far below God's will and united with Satan instead.
In the position as God's children, they could have realized God's ideal in the position of God's children. Through them, the Kingdom of Heaven on earth would have been established in their lifetime. Instead, the first children of God were kicked out of heaven creating an alternative hell on earth led by Satan.
Originally, Adam and Eve were to not eat of the fruits (sexual organs) and God would have been our source through Adam and Eve passing down this true tradition of following God's Word from the beginning.
Thus, religion would not be necessary if the first True Parents of history followed God's will connecting humanity to God for eternity uninterrupted.
God was to be the source of human goodness from the beginning. Then you and I would have been born directly into God's lineage free from sin and free from Satanic attack. This would have automatically been Heaven on Earth.
Just imagine how free the world would have been if Cain and Abel were true brother having True Children and passing this godly lineage on to your family. Abel would have been a humble servant of God allowing Cain to easily follow his brother instead of becoming the first murderer of history.
We would live in a world without division and where everyone was seen as brothers and sisters in one family under the true God.
When we see the world God originally planned, we see how far away from the idea we have fallen.
Then all mankind would have known of God's existence never doubting that God existed.
Atheism, corruption and Communism would not have risen in society to try to destroy God. God's arduous work through religion to teach His children about Him would not be necessary. We would not have to just 'believe' in God, but we would live with Him.
As father and son, we would have a relationship of true give and take never questioning God's existence and His presence within us. In this kind of life, we would rejoice forever in dancing and singing and in everything joyful.
If your mind is not happy, your body cannot respond to it.
On the other hand, if your physical body is not happy, your mind cannot respond to it.
What if Adam and Eve actually followed God's word and waited until marriage to partake in the fruit of each other?
Then God would have been the source of everything good, virtuous, joyful and happy. There would not be any confusion of what is wrong or right. As God's object, you could directly respond to Him causing your joy to be great and varied.
It would not be necessary to be taught how to live righteously, how to act or think in the proper manner that does not separate you from God. Most importantly of all, you would be well aware of the existence of the spiritual world.
But because we fell away from God, the door is closed to the spirit world. We have ignorance to the world of spirit.
Any individual does not just exist as an individual but he exists in the position of an object to the whole universe.
Adam was just one man, but had the responsibility to represent all male beings.
Eve played the role as the representative of all female beings. They laid the tradition for the world to follow whether it was good or for bad.
Adam was able to have the sight to feel what would become of later generations. He should have known that he was supposed to be the object of God.
If Adam was in the position of object to a God that is omnipresent, omniscient, transcendent of time and space, then he was in the position of representing the spirit of God in the external. He would thus feel the same as God. Wasn't this true for Jesus?
Since Adam and Eve were intended to be the external God and He lived directly in them, He thus would not be ever separated from them.
We as religious people, always say that we are God's children and God lives within us and He is always there. But this is only a conditional behavior. Being that God is a good, perfect God, He could not truly dwell where sin is exhibited.
Because God created Adam and Eve as the external God and intended to live in them, He could never have been separated from them. The result should be an ideal kingdom of heaven on earth.
Fulfillment of this ideal was barred by Satan.
Because God is considered the generating station, we must connect to God in order to act right.
Anything that uses electricity to work, must be connected to an electric source if it is to fulfill its purpose.
Without electricity, electric mechanisms would never work.
Because Satan disrupted this connection between humans and God, we cannot work properly either. Because of this fact, we should see how fierce an enemy Satan is to us.
Satan has deprived you and me of experiencing God's true love.
He is the enemy who has cut off God's love from us.
A being like Satan to those outside any faith sounds like fiction, but he works through even the people close to you. Your own mother can work on the behalf of Satan in your life. This is why Jesus set the standard that one should love him more than his own family to be considered worthy of him.
Satan destroyed God' ideal of creation and is still active today in each of our lives.
The core teaching of Christian ideology is forgiveness. We are taught to forgive other's sins seventy times seventy times. Then why does God not forgive Satan for all of his misdeeds done to society?
Man struggles daily to separate themselves from the grasp of Satan. Because of this, God feels pity for His children and feels inclined to forgive man seventy times seventy times.
But God cannot forgive Satan Himself. This is because he is the enemy of God's love.
Satan deprived God's family of divine, true love, so God cannot forgive him now. Once all men are restored and man wants to forgive Satan, then God might in the future have to forgive Satan for turning the ideal upside down.
Satan came into being through Adam giving him power by believing in his unholy words. Thus, it is only through Adam or man that God can separate Satan from him, deny him, and at last forgive him.
Due to the human fall, Satan is abiding in us, in place of God.
Therefore, we are the incarnation of Satan.
Why do we stubbornly stand by the idea that we are born of God's lineage when God is perfect, yet we carry sin within our own blood and carry about ungodly acts with ease?
If God created us in His image, this means He created us to reach perfection, not fall from His standard.
We are in the lineage of Satan, instead of God. Wouldn't this go against God's law of creation?
When we look at religious history of martyrs, even in primitive religions, men were sacrificed or killed before God.
This was the symbol of shedding the satanic blood that flows within man. The age of animal sacrifice had the same meaning. Nature is closer to the ideal because they follow the laws of God. Bird do not discriminate against other birds who come from a different territory.
Since we live far from the ideal, there is a way to return to God's lineage.
We must live an ascetic life which presents difficulties and hardships if we want to change our satanic lineage. This is the course each of us has to take in order to be restored to God's standard.
This is how God restores us to the perfected beings He envisioned in the beginning.
When we look through God's eyes, He doesn't see us as men of His creation. We do not even look like original human beings. We are satanic beings that stand in the position of His enemies.
Isn't this true when you look at the world's situation and in the history of mankind? Is it a glorious history, or one full of pain, violence and heartache.
This is because we are truly the children of Satan who we followed and caused the fall. We are God's enemy.
God has worked throughout history to reverse this problem and restore us to our original state which He created. Every moment that we breathe, it is a constant fight against the satanic power which is established on this earth.
Can you imagine the difficult job of restoring us to the position before the fall to nurture us to grow into mature beings without any trace of the satanic blood lineage?
We think we are truly God's children even though we are imperfect, but it is likened to if you adopt a child from a friend. No matter how much affection and love you give, you still cannot love him as your own children who are of your own blood, flesh and carry your spirit and character.
This is the situation God is in. We are more like adopted sons and daughter of God since we do not carry His true, sinless blood lineage.
How is it possible for God to love us as His own children the same way He loved Adam and Eve before the fall?
God tries hard during this course of restoration to love you and I born into sin by imagining that we are immaculate beings and has the potential to return to our position before the fall.
Since we are the children of Satan, who is God's enemy, God naturally feels a sense of resentment towards us at first.
It would be likened to a father whose wife had a child her first child with his brother, yet has to care for and raise the baby as if he was his own.
Likewise, Satan stole the true father position from God.
We are able to ease this painful heart of God by receiving hardship and difficulties coming from Him. Once you are able to become completely obedient to God's will, He will feel like forgiving you. Thus, we must determine to win the sympathy of God by going through difficulty as though it was natural.
When we are able to bear this, compassion for our position will swell up in God's heart for you.
God places us as the offering and checks to see if we are able to obey Him in that difficult position. No matter how difficult or hard the situations you have to endure, you must go through them with a grateful heart.
The only way to win God's heart is to go through difficulty and get over them alone.
So, in the Bible we read that those who persevere to the last will win the love of God.
Human history has been one of restoration. There has been many rises and falls of nations and people with good and evil woven throughout. Through this process, our sins have been indemnified or cleared away.
However strong the faith that you have, it does not matter if you fail to believe in God at the end you
are destined to go to hell.
Since your blood is stained with Satan's blood lineage, you cannot restore yourself to the true position all by yourself. To be saved and restored, you must be placed in a position of a living sacrifice on the altar of God.
Yes, Jesus died for our sins, but we are still born into a sinful lineage.
However hard you may struggle to restore yourself, you cannot do it all by yourself, because your blood is stained by satanic lineage. Only by putting yourself in the position of a sacrifice, a living sacrifice, on the altar of God, can you be saved and restored.
It is hard for a non believer to understand the concept of sin when our external body does not show signs of sin. Jesus was sinless, but it was hard for people to believe because he looked like any other person.
Since God is a good God and we were made in His image, then there is a way for us to return to our original position before the fall.
But, even if we cannot see it, satanic blood that we inherited runs through every part of our body including our limbs.
Our eyes have been accustomed to seeing evil things. How do we go about restoring our eyes to recognize virtuous and good sights?
What do we have to do to restore our five senses to recognize the good in our environment?
Also, how are we going to restore our limbs and every part of our body for the purpose of goodness? We must first deny ourselves and love God more than we do anybody else.
Just as Jesus said, you must deny your family and your sinful way of life before God can have His object as pure as before the fall. When you have a traditional marriage that is still tied to the fallen lineage with your own children, then your fallen family and surroundings are all elements that make God grieve.
From God's viewpoint, this multiplication of the fallen lineage is not acceptable and is against God's will.
The Bible stated that in the Last Days that it would be burdensome for those with children and family for this reason. Satan would have even more hooks to work through the fallen family and make it harder to restore each individual.
The Messiah comes to reverse the fall and to give his faithful followers into marriage that erases the fallen blood lineage and connects us to God's direct blood lineage. This was Jesus' desire. This makes more sense why Jesus was grieved and not happy at fulfilling the way of the cross.
Jesus carried God's true blood lineage, which he would have been able to pass this lineage on through the a True Marriage and leaving True Children on earth carrying God's blood.
Thus, humanity connecting to this true lineage through following his path and what the Bible calls the Marriage of the Lamb. This is the Marriage blessing which the Messiah gives to his followers that is given directly by God.
A true religion must teach you to deny yourself and to sacrifice yourself, to drain the satanic blood out of you.
Once you completely yield yourself in total obedience to the altar of God, you utterly deny yourself and are re-created by God's hands.
Once you deny yourself, you will finally feel that you have cut the satanic chains and separated yourself from Satan's grasp and return to God.
But as fallen people, we turn around and deny God and rebel against Him through our actions. Then God has no choice but to place you back into the satanic world and test you many times.
Before each of us can be fully restored and recognized by God, we must get rid of any signs of betrayal of the fall.
Even though we are chased away for our disobedience, we must return to God with tears in repentance for our sins.
He may get rid of His resentment of being treated poorly even though He only gives us love through putting you through hardships. You must endure these times and cling to God without leaving Him.
We must be like Jesus who is always symbolized as a lamb because he represented the whole of mankind. The lamb is a creature that is obedient to his master's call and will obey him even at the moment of death. We are each symbolized by a lamb as followers and we should be obedient to God.
Through Jesus going to the cross, God was teaching mankind how to be obedient to Him even at the moment of death. Jesus went tearfully the way of sacrifice, because he knew that it was not God's original plan.
Only through the Jewish people not believing Jesus was God's son and not following him to the end did he have to go to the cross. Even though he knew it would prolong God's will of heaven on earth, Jesus obeyed God all the way to his last breath.
What is more virtuous than faith and actions?
Your heart toward God, the pure love of God is more valued.
You then must first understand God's heart and how much He has suffered in the work of restoring the world of peace He originally planned.
Are you in a position where you can receive the love of God? Can He can rely on you?
Is God happy with your actions in your life? Are you where He can really love you? Since we know that we are not of God's blood lineage, then we should understand that it is difficult for God to love us naturally.
If God is going to love us at all, He has to go through difficulty.
We are the sons and daughters of God's enemy.
Thus, we should try hard to win His heart and turn it towards us. We must clearly understand what has caused God grief throughout history and we must reverse what we have done in the past including our ancestor's tradition of sin and restore the original state within ourselves.
Through this course of restoration, we should bring ourselves into a position that is better than Adam and Eve before the fall. Thus, we would be obedient to God not repeating the fall through our selfish desires. This is our ultimate goal.
The Fall, caused God so much grief. God has been imprisoned not able to work freely without a direct connection to His children who were stolen. We are in the position to help liberate His heart.
Even God's own happiness has been wrapped in bondage.
What Father could be happy seeing His children stolen and destroyed?
As His adopted children, we also should not sit by and watch Him suffer because of our disobedience. Therefore, we should liberate Him and relieve Him from this grief.
Because we have not known this, throughout history, people of religion have been asking God to help liberate them. They pray for God to do this and that for them without having the notion of our responsibility to liberate God instead.
The Unification Church was created on this earth with that mission, to liberate God's broken heart.
We teach the grief of God and whose people feel such grief, and then teach others how to liberate God's heart.
The most important question or problem is how to relieve His heart by restoring ourselves on the individual level, family level, nationwide level, and worldwide level.
We should know that this world is not the world God wanted, and He does not want it to stay the way that it is. He does not want Christianity to stay as it is either. God wants the world of Christianity to relieve Him from His sorrow.
How many Christians have thought of this?
Who has thought of comforting God in all of the betrayals and heartache He has suffered throughout the work of restoring the world?
Has there been a nation that has thought of liberating God's heart from sorrow?
This must be taught through religion.
In order to this, one man must be restored to the position of Adam before the fall, who is not born into sin. He will work through his family without the fall up to the level of the whole world. This is what God wants.
This man will set the tradition completing the teachings of Jesus to lead people through the restoration course.
A rebellious son may run away and return with billions to his father. But for this father to be consoled, he would have to see that his son has more piety and obedience. Without this attitude, the father's resentment toward his betrayal will not be cleared away.
This is the same for a wife whose husband has stopped loving her.
Even though she might have a huge diamond ring and lots of money, nothing can restore the love she has lost. What is more important than that diamond is love.
Jesus had the mission to restore God's love through his family.
Thus, the Lord of the Second Advent returns to carry out this same mission. Jesus left us an example how to be a true son and brother. The Messiah returns to give the example how to be a True Parent and True Husband through his sinless family on earth.
The mission of the Unification Church is to restore our love towards God, then restore God's love for us.
We advocate liberating God's heart first and winning His love before liberating ourselves.
Many may not accept this notion, but what religion has truly been able to reverse the acts of the fall and bring about a sinless society?
When you first come to God, He would view you the same way He views Satan at the beginning. He would want to see the love you have for Him is more than your love for anyone else. This is the only way to clear away His resentment.
The Messiah, who is not born perfect, also has to grow to maturity in spirit.
Even the Messiah has been rejected by God to restore the fact that we have rejected God many times.
Even though he was put in an even more difficult position, he would go back to God's bosom and cling to Him in prayer and love, then God would accept Him.
But after awhile, God would send him back into satanic hands to go through even more tribulations and hardships. After conquering these things, he would go back to God. And so many times he has had such things happen to him
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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Day of Resolution of Victory.
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