Love is the Source of Peace and Happiness

The more love we have, the happier we become. Love is such that once it is in our hand; we never want to let it go.

Our human will does not govern the source of life.

Only true love can influence our motivation, our course or the end of our life.

We were born in love, therefore, we should live and die for love at the end of our lives.

What do you think the color of love would be?

Would it be a murky black color at night, white in the daytime and yellow in the evening?

The central color of love is where we will find the power to achieve peace, unity and equality for all.  However, if you happen to carelessly venture into love's most holy place, the sexual organs, then you will be judged.

When you find someone to love, your face becomes radiant. 

Only love has the power to bring such light.

Guns and threats can not bring about such beauty, only love.  What kind of love is this?

That love is true love, the love that is the owner of the universe, the center of the universe, and the original fountain of the universe.

Love is the main point of happiness.  It is the invisible order and the peace that serves the common good.  It is the common asset of all humanity and the symbol of God's will and power.

Love holds supreme value which cannot be measured.

Once you have true love, even God will follow you.

When you possess true love, the world will follow you, everyone will follow you.  Once you stand in love's place, all of creation will follow you.

True love has the power that makes you and another feel good even if you stay together forever.  

You will still feel good even though you stay together, live together, talk together, eat together and listen together.

We cannot deny that love is liked and welcomed by all people.

Everyone wants to be born, live and die surrounded by true love.  Such a person has a fulfilling life and is a happy person.

Getting a wink from a loved one can make you feel that heaven and earth were turning upside down.  If you get a smile from the one you love, then you feel all of heaven and earth and the cosmos live within your heart.

People in love become completely possessed by it.  Each word they utter will be based on the love which claims them.

Therefore, love has the power to break down all barriers which humanity builds.

If you think it is small, it is small; if you think it is big, it is big; if you think you can see it, you can see it; if you think you cannot see it, you cannot see it.  Love has a perceptive quality.

The power of love is greater and mightier than the power of an atomic bomb.

An atomic bomb only has the power to leave destruction in its path, but love has even more power to save people and give them new life.

We all dream of a world of peace, where nation is no longer against nation and the people treat each as brothers and sisters of a common family under God.

The only power that can bring this about is not through war or force, but through true love.

Each nation observes their own traditions, have their own cultural backgrounds and customs.  The only way to transcend the multitudes of barriers we face on every level from the individual to the family level is through true love.

As we continue on this path of restoration and love is perfected, you will see that the political, economic and cultural problems, basically all human disputes, will be fully resolved.

Every problem that humankind face today can be fundamentally resolved through the perfection of true love.  Humanity has gone in the opposite direction of this path with give and take of false love.

True love has an unchanging quality and is the same whether it is night or day.  It is not possessed by just one person.

True love belongs to everybody.

Imagine a world where true love is shared freely.  True love has the power to connect to the family, nation, world and the universe.

We must seek this true love.

God became a sorrowful and regretful God for creating humanity that went in the opposite direction of His will.

But, if we were to perfect our love centered on God, He would become a responsive God.  He would experience no regrets once He was immersed in it.

God will rejoice over anything that happens in the world if He is surrounded by true love.

If people could live in a world of true love, they would all live happily, without regret.

If we were able to reach this level of love, there would be no war, resentment or suffering in the world.

All of creation will shower blessings upon the ones that devote their lives centered on love.

Flowers will flourish and bloom in their gardens, birds will sing and want to live in the trees of their back yard.  This is because people who live centered on God's love know the value of all things of creation and truly love and embrace them.

Love is so big that even God yearns for it and is engulfed in love.  Therefore, what God wishes for more than anything is for love, because love is even greater than He is.

Did you know such a fact?  Even God bows down to true love.

Love is in unity with God and occupies the center of ideal circumstances and situations. So, as long as God exists, there is love to be experienced.  

You can find money, knowledge and power in the midst of love. 

Love's power is eternal.

Those who experience true love while living on earth, do not have to learn anything in the spirit world.

What is true love?

On the intersection of the vertical and horizontal line, true love forms a ninety-degree angle.  It must fit wherever it goes.  Love should fit in Eastern homes and in Western homes alike.

True love can fit in anywhere and everywhere regardless of whether there are difference in race, cultural or religious backgrounds.

The universe breathes in and out.  Political power can never control the expansion of the universe.  Neither can all the money in the world or knowledge.  Only through the giving of love.

When you are able to look at the world through eyes filled with true love, when you see a bird flying in the air, you will think that he is chirping because he is missing his beloved.

With eyes of love, poetry and prose come naturally to mind.

Our lives harmonize with nature and reproduce the symphony of love.  That is why a breath of love, a caress of love, a song of love and a whisper of love are all pleasing.

The most evil of forces dissolves in the presence of true love. 

Even if you just pass by or only look at true love, that is enough.

Love is the element that forms the essential part of you.  Before you are given life, love is at work.  It is the source of life itself.  A life that is lived for love is a productive and fruitful one.

On the other hand, a life that does not know love leads to exhaustion and destruction.  You have probably witnessed this phenom in your lifetime.

God, humankind and even the universe have a desire to live for the sake of love.

This is the original way of life.  True love is absolute, unchanging and eternal.  It can not be revolutionized, or developed.  Love's original form is eternal, unchanging and absolute.

The love attained in a natural setting and in the most natural atmosphere is real love.

Once someone opens his or her eyes to love, that person's mind and body will want to form better and multi-dimensional relationships within the universe.  They come to understand the order of nature from the leaves falling in autumn wind.

They will smile and want to become a flower blossom in order to appreciate the beauty of a flower in a spring garden.

The fastest action in the world is the action of love. 

If two people who lived on opposite ends of the earth were to fall in love with each other, their love would pull them together, therefore overcoming the distance between them.

Love has such power.

A person who receives love and receives grace from God looks beautiful.  When we are able to reach the state to feel God's love, we can thus relate and transcend everything in the universe.

When we are centered on the emotions of God's original love, we can have everything.

Our organs and our bodies were created for the one purpose, love.

The eyes were formed to seek for love, the nose to smell love, and the ears to listen to the sounds of love.

Of all the words we hear in the English language, there are words we never tire of and always like to hear and that are the words, "I love you."

That kind of love is true love that the entire universe welcomes. Love is the only topic which all beings enjoy.

True love doesn't lead us to only love those things that are good and beautiful.  We can define true love as that which can love the very lowest thing more than something high.

Love has such a power and quality that even God is bound by its authority.  This means that even the almighty God becomes weak before true love.

Even God wouldn't be able to prevent himself from smiling when He sniffs the scent of love emanating from humankind.  God likes to hear love stories.

What is the most holy element in the world?

It is true love.

True love starts from God. 

What God desires is the path of true love.

You must understand that if you do not follow the path of true love that you cannot have a close relationship with God.

God wants to see, hear, eat and touch through love.  That is where happiness will begin in the world, when people can live fully based on love.

We all want to reach perfection and realize the ideals of our dream, but we can never achieve these things without love.  Everything in the universe exists on the basis of love.

Everything in the creation began life through the original love of God.  

In this world, when you give something away, it is gone.  But in the case of love, the more you give, the more you receive in return.

This is why when we find true love, we delight in it.  No matter how much your give, it will be returned to you.  Then you can always be happy and joyful.

We all like money, but once you buy something, that money is gone for good.  However much you might like power, once you use it, it runs out.  But, the more you give love the more unlimited a supply you will have.

So, what exactly is true love?

It is something that even grandmothers and grandfathers can never relinquish, even in death.

Once you get a taste of true love, you delight in it so much that you can never live without it after that.  This is the same for all people: men and women, young and old, those from the East or the West.

Would a grandfather who receives love from his grand child exclaim that he doesn't like that kind of love.  That he was not used to that smell of love from where he is from.  Would he say that he rather smell something other than the scent of love?

Fresh baked bread or rice stimulates every cell in your body.  The cells respond that it tastes very good.

Love is like the essence of everything.  When you can treat anything and anyone with that kind of love, a path will open up along which you can freely go anywhere without restrictions.

True love lasts forever.  

Love is unchanging: in the spring, summer, autumn and winter; true love when you are in your teens, adulthood and old age; and true love even when you go to eternal spirit world.

Who owns love?

Not man or woman, but God Himself.  True love is the only way for God and human beings to become one, because love is absolutely essential to both God and human beings.

Wherever there is the harmony of love, circular motion takes place.

When humans and God unite centered on love, God can come down, and human beings can go up, and they will meet midway.

Thus God becomes the center of the sphere and then there is a spherical motion occurring with this give and take.

This is where the central point is.  This point is where harmony in love is established and is the place where life first stirs.  This is the starting point for equality and sharing together.

That is because the power of love is there.

The power that acts on and embraces everything in the universe is love. 

Love's quality can never be felt by yourself.

This can be said of happiness as well.  Even the concept of peace cannot be applied to just one nation if the rest of the world is at war or suffering.

You can only feel true happiness, when you can love based on a relationship with another on an equal footing.  It is the same for freedom.  You don't experience freedom on your own.  True freedom is acquired within love, together with love.

Even if a dictator was to give out true love and wield absolute authority over everyone, even with a whip, it would not hold the people back, Instead, it would bring richer joy and happiness.

This is because it is something that is given to others for their benefit, through which someone sacrifices himself to save others.

Love is the pillar that stands at the center where the mind and body automatically unite.

The individual, family nation, world and universe are all situated at the central point at that one pillar.

Since this central point does not move, this is why true love is the eternal place of settlement.

Jesus told the people that he was the way, the truth and the life and no one could come to the Father but by him.  However, he left one thing out, the most important aspect of all, love.

He should have said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life and the love.  Those words should be inserted into the Bible.

When Christians hear such a speech, they will say that it is blasphemous.  But if you ask God or if you just simply think about it, you know that Jesus, God's true son, was love.

From this, we can see that God really likes love, but he likes true love the best of all.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the Textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong Book, "True Love" Three Chapter one, Section one

Leave No Condition for Satan to Attack

How will it be possible for you experience the heart of the Messiah and God's love and heart?

The question is how to enter into that state.  To do this, you must return to the position of Adam and Eve who have not fallen, and are free from Satan's accusation.

How is it possible for you to be liberated from the satanic world and blood lineage of sin?

You have to win the battle with Satan.

In order to accomplish this, how hard do you think you will have to work?

In addition, how much suffering will you have to go through to achieve this standard?  Only the Messiah was able to do this.

Bequeathing of heart

Many saints in history were deceived: Jacob and Moses were deceived ten times and Jesus was also deceived in the same manner.  We must overcome this.

Through overcoming deception with a grateful heart, we come to understand God's heart.  We come to know the heart of the Parent.  Without overcoming this, we will never have a chance to experience such a heart.

As long as you do not have this experience, Satan will never leave you.

As long as you do not overcome Satan's taunts and triumph over him, you will never know the Parents' heart or God's heart who have gone through this suffering course.

Thus, everyone of faith must conquer Satan on the frontline.

If instead we just live a comfortable life of leisure, we will not be able to find God's love, the Parents' love, the True Parents' realm of heart, or find God's realm of heart.

I must send everyone to the frontline. 

You need to go out and be persecuted, despised and beaten.

You can receive all sorts of harsh treatments.  Through this experience, there can be an inheritance of heart.  A ceremony of inheritance will take place there.

Therefore you should always stand at the forefront and march forward like the Messiah.

The frontline is harsh persecution, but this is natural.  When you witness or fundraise and receive such treatment, God will protect you.  You will be able to experience the same heart as God as you stand in the same place.

How do you experience this Parental heart deeply? How do you come to know the real True Parents who reverse the Fall, and know that God is your Father down to your flesh and bone?

The question is how will you know down to the cells of your body that God is your Father even without thinking about it?

You must overcome the situation of being exposed to Satan's accusation. 

How do we not leave any satanic condition through our actions and thoughts is the biggest problem.

It is simple how to experience True Parents' love deeply: you must stand in the position of unfallen Adam and Eve who have conquered Satan on the global stage.

In order to completely separate from Satan, how much blood and sweat will you have to shed?  How much of Satan's accusations will you have to bear?

How tremendous the battle, because it will only happen after you have victory over the course of indemnity, paying back for sins.

When you are faced with such difficulties, if you do not appreciate facing these challenges, then no matter how much you pray or what you do, you will not be able to go beyond it.

We should be grateful for the persecution as we paved the way to get rid of our fallen lineage, overcome Satan and return back to God.

You have to have this experience deeply yourself.  You will receive direct guidance.

During your experience, the problem is how to feel oneness. It will not come until you are able to defeat Satan completely, make him retreat in every facet of your life.

Power transmission towers have been established.

Power stations have been built in individuals, families, nations, the world and even in God.  Now the power lines of heart must be hung there.  Who will hang those lines?  God is not the one to do it.  You must do it.

Sons and daughters inherit from their parents

If God was to give a gift to humankind, what would it be?

That you would become the ancestors of humankind and become true mothers and fathers. There is nothing higher than the true parents position- not even being the president can match it.

There is no greater gift God can give us.

To be able to be pure sons and daughters that reverse the sinful blood lineage into God's pure blood lineage and become True Parents, then there will automatically be true children, tribe, nation and world thereafter.

The most important title in all of creation is to be a True Parent.

What is the nature of the Fall?

It is people doing and living as they pleased.

We must reverse any situation that is not centering on God and True Parents who have come to reverse the sins of the first human parents.

All men should become incarnations of True Father and all women should become representatives of True Mother.  When God enters you through your eyes or anywhere else, you should welcome Him.  Do not reject Him.

Do your walls remain in place even though you walk this path of faith?

God's love comes through you. 

You must not be negligent; you need to study this phenomenon.

Once you inherit this tradition, True Parents will come to you as God's messenger and give you the inheritance.  Since humanity has not had True Parents, therefore, true children had never appeared before.

The Unification Movement says, "Acknowledge True Parents, discover and serve them.  We say we should become true sons and daughters of True Parents."

After we become true sons and daughters, what happens?

We inherit all that they have which include: heaven and earth, and even God.  Yes, we should even inherit God.

If no one owned heaven and earth, then it would not have any value.  We should fully acknowledge the value of heaven and earth, and claim their value for eternity.  We also need to meet the one who can officially recognize that.  God is the one to do this.

You will continue to walk this path and then receive the Marriage Blessing based on the gratitude you show before Heaven.

You should be always individually grateful and never forget the value of receiving the Blessing from the True Parents in order to change your sinful blood lineage to the pure lineage of God.

Blessed families inherit the responsibilities True Parents carry out for the restoration of the world.  Blessed Families walk the course of restoring people through witnessing and suffering.

True Parents have walked the course to restore the world to peace after setting the standard of restoring people.  Then they go one step ahead.

You must shoulder the responsibility to restore a people, until your death or until the sorrow of the people is removed completely.

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True Parents Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Two Chapter 7, section 8

Why God Can't Punish Satan

There is a theological debate whether Satan existed from the very outset.  This has caused a big problem.

If Satan had always existed and was part of God's plan for creation, his existence defies and hinders God's providence of restoring the world of peace for thousands of years.

Who is the one to subjugate and eliminate him?

This is the true issue.  Christianity upholds that Jesus liquidates all the sins of the past and the future that was to come, but even Jesus lost his physical body to Satan even though he was able to resurrect and bring a foundation for spiritual salvation.

Yet, every human being since has still been born with the original sin in his blood lineage.  Who will be able to finally accuse the one who brought sin to earth?

If Satan was not part of the creation of a perfect being, then where did he come from?

Satan caused our original ancestors to fall away from the true purpose of God which was to develop heaven on earth from the outset.

If Satan was part of the creation, then there is no way to get rid of him and have complete salvation.  This would create dualism forever.  People thus conclude that a world with two opposing purposes would continue forever.  Fortunately, this is not the case.

The reasons for Satan's accusations

The original will for the ideal world of creation was never fulfilled due to the Fall. However, since God has absolute authority, even though the whole world might change, He can never change.

Even though the devil took Adam, Eve and all creation away from God, the Absolute Being must subjugate Satan, who was originally an archangel, naturally rather than by force. 

Although God exists, it is as if He does not when we witness the chaos in the world. He has to re-establish His absolute authority. God cannot strike first. The good God cannot strike the evil Satan. 

Why is it God is tied from taking out Satan in one stroke?

Because if He was to do so, that act would end up also extinguishing Adam, Eve and the creation who are linked to him.  Through Adam and Eve obeying Satan's will instead of God's, they became connected to Satan in blood ties.

Thus, destroying Satan also destroys the ideal sphere of love.  That would be against God's own principle.

This is why God is prevented from doing so.

As absolute Lord, He must absolutely fulfill His will and do as He says would do.  Despite Satan's arrogance, attacks and tenacious persecution, still the Lord endured throughout history in order to recover His established principles.

Nobody has known of this almighty God.

If God cannot destroy Satan, why did He allow Satan to infringe upon human beings?  Why did He let His children be sacrificed and crushed under Satan's foot?

Why doesn't He stop the suffering Satan causes humanity?

Why was God unable to exalt His full power to such an extent that humanity does not recognize His existence?

This is a serious question.  The truth is, because humanity did not follow Him, He had no people, no nation, no world which to govern freely.

Therefore, no one has qualified to officially be recognized by Him as a true individual, family nation or world.

If such an individual, family nation or world was established, then God would be able to directly strike the evil people, nations and world.

Before this time, because humanity suffered through following Satan's will, to work with humanity, He had to face Satan's accusations of His children and work indirectly through angels and central figures.

Only this way will lead to goodness, and only then will God have His authority.

Will you completely conquer Satan in your life?

Wasn't event he almighty King of Wisdom immobilized by Satan's accusations?

It is the same situation with the President.  If his citizens decided to march and demonstrate against his laws, can he just cut off their heads for their behavior?

Even the almighty God is unable to make this move.  Any government official found to be at fault, they would be fired in an instant.

This is why your actions should not leave any condition for Satan's accusation.
This is a matter of life and death.

How you develop that protection is extremely challenging problem in your life of faith.

Since the human race are connected to Satan's, lineage, false love and will, God cannot not be present during those circumstances.  This is the problem.

What did Satan take away from God in the beginning of human history?

Satan trampled on God's pure love and crushed God's true life, love and lineage.  We should always be aware of these facts and protect ourselves.

Satan was created originally as an archangel without any trace of the fall.

Satan goes to God and accuses Him, "You are the almighty, omnipotent, all-powerful God, even you have to solve all the problems according to the principles you set up even though I became evil.   Even though I became Satan and brought about the Fall, You must abide by the rules and principles which You set up.  Isn't this true?'

I am going to explain why we cannot proceed on our way without loving our enemy. 

It is very important for you to know this truth,

Although the archangel fell and accuses God, God must still observe the principles He has established because He is the absolute God.

No matter how the archangel behaves, God is compelled to rule over His creation according to His rules and principles He laid down.

Therefore, God is obliged to act in the same manner to the archangel before and after the Fall.  This is why Satan taunts God and tells Him, "You are supposed to love me until I'm perfected and beyond."

Adam was supposed to originally, command three archangels.  In turn, they were to obey and love him absolutely.

As long as the heavenly law demands absolute obedience and submission, Satan is not able to do as he pleases with the laws and principles.

Even though he does not absolutely obey and submit to God, he knows that eventually he has to follow the same principle

If Satan violates the principle and God's law, then He can remove him.

It would be the same as the president exercising his authority through the constitutional law.  If it is not in the constitution, the president is not able to act as he wishes.

The author of the Divine Principle, the Completed Testament, dealt with such serious issues such as the existence of God and why He did not eliminate Satan as soon as he fell.

In the book of Job, you may ask why God was so powerless.

I had to understand all this. How serious I was to do so! I have placed myself on the gallows and struggled for these truths at the risk of my life. We have to retrieve our original life. 

If you are not familiar with the Book of Job, Satan accused God that Job was a faithful servant because He gave him everything.

Satan challenged God that if He took everything away from Job and made him suffer that he would curse God in return.

God gave Satan everything he asked for and told him he could take Job's life.  Why would the almighty God respond to Satan?

God cannot respond with the same behavior as Satan because God is the essence of love for others.

God is the essence of truth. 

God does not try to subjugate Satan with His mysterious, creative power.  God makes Satan yield voluntarily to His will.

Satan has used promiscuous sex, selfishness and so on and brought ruin in the world in order to prevent the world from returning to God.

How many people indulge in incest in America?

A father left alone with his daughters will molest and sleep with his daughters.  Because of the degradation of morals, the father's brother sleeps with the mother or a son sleeps with his mother.

American's lifestyle is closer to that of the animals.  Therefore, Satan laughs at God and says, "How do you even think about having an ideal world or world of love under these circumstances?"

God abides by the law

What kind of being can you say God is?

God is like the mind of the universe; the universe is like His body. 

However, the devil has plagued this body.

Satan has stolen the powers of the heavens and thus also controls the universe.  What does God need to do in order to digest this problem?  God is unable to strike Satan with force.

The essential quality in the process of creating the universe was love.  Thus, God maintains that principle, even if there are those that violate it.

Therefore, God unceasingly maintains His original standard He set up for creating, for the sake of restoring the fallen universe back to its original purpose of love.

Thus, fulfilling the ideal of true love.  If He is unable to accomplish this, then He cannot regain His authority as the Absolute Being.

This point has been so frustrating for God.

The Fall established a wrongful bond of love centered on Satan who took the position of parents.  Much interpretations have been said about the fruit of good and evil.

The descendants of Adam and Eve have carried on Satan's love through blood ties.  Satan's life, false love and blood lineage has passed on through our ancestors unceasingly.  The only relationship of love that can pass sin through the blood line is a sexual relationship.

Thus, as long as the root of the fall, false love, is not rooted out, it remains.  

Satan is the enemy of love. 

Satan fractured God's dream for an ideal world of love.

The servant forcibly took away the King's daughter and violated her.  Thus, she lost her position as the Lord's daughter.

Thus she had to be driven out of the King's establishment.  This wrongful act was an derailment from the original track of the great principle of heaven and earth.  This fact cannot be denied.

God cannot achieve the original ideal of an ideal world, unless He is able to love the children of evil just as much or even more than His own children.

Satan asserts, "I have fallen and become who I am.  My lineage even revolts against you,. Yet, don't You God have to uphold the way of the heavenly law?"  This is where God is caught.

Satan accuses God further saying, Since You are the substance of truth, love and principles, You cannot change for any reason, although I am fallen, don't you have to practice Your own principles which You established?

"Therefore, as a Being of principle, You cannot bring your children to the original world without loving the fallen angel.  The plans you placed for the archangels before the Fall do not allow Your children to enter the heavenly kingdom unless they and You Yourself love me. Although I fell and caused many calamities, You should love me or else You cannot be the true God and Your son and daughter cannot be true children without loving me."

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This post was rewritten and taken from the textbook, Cheon Seong Gyeong Book One True God, chapter 4 section 4

Existing Doctrines of God Contradictory

Throughout the history of religion, there have been many question that have been raised such as does God exists and many questions about the doctrines each religion upholds.

These teachings have brought much division, and wars between the people of faith and sometimes within the same faith separating into several different denominations.  How did we come to such a position?

We commonly say that God is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent who possesses the utmost goodness and beauty.

He is said to be a being of love, the Lord of judgment and the Father of humankind.  Yet, how do we make sure that this description is correct.  Why did God create the universe?  God could have lived by Himself for life.

God is absolute goodness, so where did the phenomenon of the law of the jungle appear in this world He created?

We know that the Fall has led to the world of sin, but why did beings created by a perfect God develop so many problems?

God has many problems which humanity has caused since the beginning.  Many ask that if God exists, why did an all-knowing and all-powerful being allow Jesus to be nailed to the cross?

If Jesus did not go to the cross would it have been possible for salvation?

If God is almighty, yet He is still unable to save perfect Jesus from dying on the cross, is such a God a cruel God we should chase away?

How could we believe and trust in such a God who seems to not be able to save humanity, who are also His children, from their misery?

There has been no one before who sought to dig at the root of the cause of God's grief after the Fall.

The relationship between God and human beings has become impotent. Although theologians and spiritual mediums know about Satan's existence, they have not been able to understand why the almighty God could not prevent Satan from opposing Him and stealing His position.  

This same problem is mimicked in the spirit world.  Whenever you try to go to God's side, Satan surely interferes.  Satan opposes us from many directions, not just one.

Why is God unable to intervene and punish the devil who perpetrated cause of sin?

This has been a riddle to humanity until now that it has been revealed.

God has been leading humankind throughout the tens of thousands of years of history toward a better world, but why have we not established a world where goodness is realized?

Instead, humanity has ended up heading toward a world of despair and hopelessness?

This problem has never been truly or satisfactorily been answered. It is the leading reason people conclude that a good God does not exist.

If a God or Creator did not exist, would it be possible for humankind to have the possibility to dream of the ideals we long for which is the peaceful world and Utopia we seek for the future?

In the past, thinking people and philosophers have failed in their pursuit of such a world.  Their answers and efforts have left the world in its present state.

When we look at the history of struggle and wars to bring about a better world, how do we assume that such a world of hope can come about in the future?

Why would the all-knowing God leave Satan alone to do as he pleases humanity?  God could just execute him one night, but He leaves him be.  Why?

This is the most difficult question which religion failed to answer in the past.  Is it a simple matter?

Many people visualize God as a God of glory sitting on His throne everyday.  This concept is why we believe that God does not have anything to do with suffering or sorrow or any kind of emotions.

If Christians were asked what kind of being God was, they would say that He was our Father.  They would further say that those who call Him Father should repent and live a life of faith in this sinful world.

God and man are constantly said to relate as parent and child, yet they are said to be in contradiction of each other.

Christianity pronounces that God is all-knowing, omnipotent, the Judge who sits on His throne as the righteous Lord of judgment who judges all people.

Do any of you like judges?

Judges sometimes pass death sentences, but their verdicts cannot be absolutely right.  There are many different ways and angles to see a situation, yet a judge measures whether someone lives or dies.  

If a judge serves for ten years, he will get sick and die; if he does not die, he will at least become seriously ill. Human judgment of universal law often misses the true mark.  For this reason, a righteous person would get sick after being judge for ten years.

We should ask God about this.

Christians also say that he sends bad people to hell and good people to heaven, but if God were joyful to see this, then He would be a crazy God.

God dwells in the place of absolute goodness, which transcends good and evil. 

Would it be interesting to have such a God that sits on His throne all day like pastors say?

Try sitting for three days straight doing nothing.

So, what is it God could be doing?

According to Christianity, God is sitting on a throne of glory while humanity suffers on earth.  If God is alone, then what kind of glory is that?

Do we truly believe that God sits in one spot for eternity, singing, "Oh, I have so much power, omniscience.  I'm so mysterious and..." Really?  What use is that kind of power?

God, too has always been living centering on love.  This logic is undeniable.

Why is it that God is unable to do as He pleases when He holds such power?  It is because He is constrained by circumstances.  

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook, True God Cheon Seong Gyeong Book One Chapter One section 7

We Can Accuse Satan's Sins

As we go about our daily lives, we are unaware of how our actions invite Satan in or lay a ground for his accusations to God.  Satan is so arrogant, he even accuses God.

He tells God, "God, I am the chief devil that constantly changes. I am the ancestor of changeability.  But you are the ancestor of heaven and earth, the substance of the unchanging Lord, aren't you?  Don't you embody the principles of unchangeableness in life?

"I fell and became rebellious.  But you are responsible to uphold the original standard which You set up. I can freely pass in and out of the doors of the ideal world, but since I can't live there I must come out." Then God would answer, "You are absolutely right."

If we commit one sin, then Satan immediately accuses us before God and says, "Because of his sin, then he should go to hell."

Even though Satan has indeed sinned himself, and undoubtedly planted the seed of sin into the world, no one has ever come forward to accuse Satan in front of God for his own sin.

Partly because no one has been able to pinpoint exactly what the nature of his sin is which he ardently had been hiding from humanity.

If we commit even one sin, Satan, the devil, will immediately accuse us before God and say, "Because of his sin, this guy must go to hell."

Though Satan, who accuses human beings for their sin, has surely committed sins himself, no one has ever come forward to accuse Satan in front of God for his sin.

Don't you think that the absolute, almighty God would lay a path where mankind, His greatest masterpieces, can eradicate Satan completely?

When a person comes forth and says to God, "Absolute God!  From the viewpoint of Your power and authority, Satan has committed this-and-that unpardonable sin against humankind and against You.  Please punish him."

If God was unable to remove Satan through this method, then how is He all-knowing and all-powerful, instead he would be siding with Satan, not humankind.

Actually, Satan is an archangel.  He must go to heaven only after Adam and Eve are perfected and enter the heavenly principle of creation and after receiving love from God and then from them.

Although Satan made a mistake on the way, if he was to humble himself and say, 'I am a servant and a traitor, yet, You Lord decided the great principles of heavenly law and established Your essential traditions based on them.  Upon these principles, You established there is one that lets You enter the Kingdom of Heaven only after loving the perfected Adam and the archangel. Surely You cannot abandon that principle?"

God is caught. He answers, "You are right." Satan traps God saying, "Although I became what I am, You, God, surely cannot be like me." 

Since the devil is an archangel, he says, "Weren't the children who can enter the Kingdom of Heaven originally supposed to love me? Isn't it the original principle of creation that You, God, and Adam may enter the Kingdom of Heaven only after You and Adam love me?" 

He further pushes God, saying, "Unless this is done, You cannot avoid my accusations. You have to establish the condition that You loved me and that Your son Adam also loved me."

This problem is the reason behind the teaching, "Love your enemy," given to all religious people of faith.

Once we enter a parent-child relationship with God, when the sons cries in sorrow, God the Father will also cry.  Then Satan will flee, He cannot remain there.

The world will not be able to be brought back to the heavenly side unless someone appears who stands in a position higher than Satan and regain the heavenly authority.

In other words, someone must appear with such a standard that they can drag Satan before God and charge him saying, "God! Satan has committed such sins!  Why don't you judge him?"

Sadly, Satan has has dragged humanity around by the yoke of sin.  We should reverse this, capture Satan and bring him before God and accuse him.

The problem is, that even though people today, know that Satan exists, they do no know exactly what sin he has committed.

Then why doesn't the all-knowing, all-powerful God strike down the fallen archangel? Why doesn't God get rid of Satan?  It is because He must also love him.

Because until now, no one has been able to accuse Satan before God and say, "God!  With Your almighty authority, please punish this sinful Satan."

Even though the archangel who God created had become Satan, God has to maintain the principled standard of thinking of the archangel as he was before the Fall.

This is why we should love the archangel: Adam and Eve are God's creation and the body of God.  Therefore, Adam and Eve must love Satan, also.

God cannot be hard on Satan for killing millions of His beloved sons and daughter in history because God is responsible for not having fully loved the archangel.  So, when Satan accuses us he'll say, "God, so and so is doing this and that."

Now because of the Completed Testament, we can know these things that no one previously understood.

Now, you can drag Satan in front of God and accuse him.  Would God say you were wrong or would He be pleased?

No doubt God would exclaim,"oh my son" and want to bless you eternally.  How intensely has God yearned for that time throughout history?

If someone comes forward that can press charges and accuse Satan, God can thus, judge Satan.

Since the first parents sinned, God is unable to freely do as He wishes.  Just the same as if a child commits a murder and has to go to jail.  Can the mother or sibling take responsibility for the crime?  They cannot, this is heavenly law.

They sinned with Satan by following his word and will instead of God's.  But God does not pass judgment on Satan or Adam and Eve for what they have done, despite what we have been taught through sermons.  God leads the providence of salvation to restore humankind back to our original position.

Although God hears Satan's accusation, he is unable to pass judgment.  This presents a problem when we look at it from a theological standpoint.  How is it possible that the almighty God cannot handle Satan?

God has no interest in fighting because there is no concept of war or fighting in the ideal world of God's creation.

If fighting were to occur in the ideal world then it would fall into dualism.

Basically, fighting does not have anything to do with an ideal world of peace.  There is no concept of struggle within God's ideal world of creation.

How did Satan fall away from his position in front of God?

He created division in large things and small things. God combines small worthless things into something large. 

God's way is contrary to Satan's. 

The origin of the universe seeks true love and the principles by which He created the universe.  We see that Satan went against this origin instead of obeying Him, he went his own way and thus fell away from his position.

The original nature of the almighty, unique and eternal God is to live one hundred percent for the sake of others.

Throughout history, God wins over His enemy through bringing him into submission through the principles of love, not by His strength and power.

Therefore, Satan must give up the position he stole from God voluntary.

God desired to bring His enemy to complete submit before Him and gratefully receive humanity's judgement as the servant which was his original position.  Until this happens, his sins cannot be indemnified.

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True God  Chapter 4 Cheon Seong Gyeong Book One section 4

Fruit of Love Has to Mature Before We 'Eat of It'

Everyone by now knows the Biblical account of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.  God warned Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit.  The fruit was symbolic of their sexual organs.  He did not tell them this to be mean or keep them from love, but it was because it was not the right time for them to love.

Imagine an apple growing on the tree still has not reached maturity.  But a young person is so hungry they take the unripened fruit and decide to eat it anyway.  Would this fruit be fully developed yet in its immaturity?

Since they were still in the growth stage, God commanded them to wait until they became spiritually mature.

Everyone grows up and thinks and longs for the time when they can pass through their adolescence.

Why is it necessary to wait until after adolescence to be married?

A man and woman can love at anytime and age, so why is it necessary to wait until after adolescence?

Because of love, this is the only course.

We need to pass through adolescence in order to mature.  Once we fulfill certain conditions during that period, then our spirit and body matures.

What should have been Adam's and Eve's attitude toward their education?

Because God is their parent, Adam and Eve should have obeyed Him and followed Him wherever He went.

The Time for Adam's and Eve's First Love

As we learn in Genesis, they did not do so.

God told Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply.  This does not hold the same context as bearing children.

Fruitful means that after their physical and spiritual bodies had become fully mature, they should have become a loving husband and wife centered on God and had good children.

They instead left their original positions and disobeyed God.  Since God is the Absolute Being, they should have followed and obeyed Him absolutely even if they did not understand why.

As appointed lords of all creation, they should have acted according to Heavenly Father's time table.  In other words, they should have waited until their bodies matured physically and they matured spiritually.
As Adam and Eve grew into maturity, they were always together.

As they were exploring and getting to understand and know creation, there could have been a time when Eve was frightened by something.  She might have felt safe and comforted in Adam's arm.  At the same time they both might have felt strong sexual urges because their bodies were different from the other.

In this situation, who was the first to initiate the sexual actions: Adam or Eve?

From that time on, their sexual contact began to increase gradually.  

God created the universe with love.

Since God created with His love, then we should have made the created world a community of love centering on God's love and connect it to Him.

This was their responsibility.

Adam and Eve should have been careful to think beforehand how and with what attitude they would share the love they had which was permitted by God.

Matters of love are extremely serious: life or death is determined by its giving or misuse.

Where does love begin?

A true world begins from the perfection of the individual.  The Principle view point states that we can only love after we have become perfect.

The relationship of love only begins when one passes through adolescence and become mature spiritually enough to fulfill the responsibility of becoming one in harmony with the universe.

As we know that Adam and Eve did not wait until they were perfect to indulge in their fruit of love.  How do we know Adam and Eve were not perfect?  Because a perfected person completely connected to God cannot fall.

Then what kind of love did they share?

Since their love was not centered on God or did not unified all of creations in the universe, this means their love was not mature.  Their love should have been mature and natural.  However, the sad fact is, the love they did share was unnatural.

All Beings Are Perfected through Love

God had created us to become perfected.

This happens once the good mind and the body interact based on God's love established in the beginning.

Thus, both the mind and body grow to maturity based on the principles or laws God set forth, and then they completely unite.

This means that the mind would only center on things God approves and the body would have no choice but to follow.  Human beings still have a way back through religion.  The mind can subjugate the evil desires of the body and return to God.

Perfection can only be achieved when one's life is rooted in love. 

When your love matures centering on God's love, then that love puts out buds and bears fruit on that foundation.  Once a foundation of love is established in this way, then God comes and resides there.

Therefore, until love fully matures, the foundation to bear its fruit cannot be established.  Adam and Eve are the true examples of what happens when we delve into immature love spreading it generation after generation.

All things were created according to the rules of love, and thus they continue to exist. 

Plants bear fruit based on the give and take action between the stamen and the pistil in the flower blossom.  This is also true for the animal kingdom and the human world.

Everything continues to exist through the circular motion of love.

In this way, all things become perfected only after passing through the relationship of love.  In other words, all beings can be perfected only through love.

Our mind and body can only unite when they are positioned to conform to the nucleus, center of God's love.  Also, human beings can only completely mature when they enter the realm of God's love when they are united in mind and body.

Humanity began with the mind following the selfish desires of the body thus completely severing our relationship with God.

We begin our journey toward individual perfection as we were originally intended at the time of creation before the Fall.

When we observe the mind and body, we see that the mind is geared toward heaven and the body is geared toward earth.

This creates the ideal place where heaven and earth and the visible world can unite into one.

Many want to dominate the world, but what if someone wanted to dominate the cosmos?  If his mind and body are not completely united would that be possible for him to lead the cosmos?

If he is not able to rule his own body centered on God, how can he rule others?

If he is not able to unite his mind centered on God, nothing will be achieved.  We see this in every nation and throughout history where the world was led down a darken path due to the fallen nature and evil desires of leaders.

If his mind and body failed to become one completely, nothing can be achieved. 

When we achieve unity between the mind and body centering on God, then God becomes our internal God.

The person is physically the external representation of God.  Then the mind and body become one centering on love.

Love is the link between man and God.

We are the horizontal representatives of the existing world and God is the vertical representative, and love bonds the two externally.

Once we are united mind and body with God, then our heart and emotions are pouring in infinite joy and happiness.

In the end, God and human beings become one through the bond of love.  Then also, human beings become one with the world through love.  The realization of a world of peace begins from here.

God's purpose of creation begins from there.

Jesus, who had matured into perfection centered on God, was to be the beginning of heaven on earth, or world of peace.  But no one in his time could accept him and follow him to the end.

Adam and Eve begin to notice the opposite sex around the age of sixteen or seventeen.  As they matured, they were drawn to each other like a flower in full blossom.  Even God becomes enraptured in this fragrance.

Therefore, when God and human's mind and body become one, the nucleus of the universe is formed.  Together they can travel the path upon which they can take charge of all kinds of love.

However, we see that they did not follow this true path, but their own desires which they could not overcome.

Had they have been able to make God's desire stronger than their fallen one, then they would unite with God, they would have never been able to leave him.

Then their descendants would have been connected, generation after generation, forming a tribe, people, nation and the world.  This then would have been a world full of peace, the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook, True Family Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Four, Chapter 1

We Need Brothers and Sisters

Everyone wants to be loved.  The ideal manifestation of that love is parents.

Orphans do not have a relationship with their original parents.  We can say that a person who neither receives parental love from his parents even though he wants to, he is very miserable.

Suppose someone is much less attractive than someone who did not grow up with their parents.  Even still, just as long as that person can serve and devote himself to his parents, he can feel very fortunate by comparison.

He might think that someone is handsome, but if he or she does not even have parents, what does that benefit?  He might think, "I may be ugly and disabled,  but at least I am fortunate to have a mother and father."

Parents are the Origin of Love

What are parents?

Why is it that even the most strongest and intelligent son could never ignore their parents even if they were a burden?  Why can he not control them with one finger?  Since he has such credentials, he could challenge them with his wit, but he wouldn't want to do that.

Where does love come from?

Does it come from yourself?  No.  Love comes from parents.

This is because the origin of love is not you, but your parents.

There can be no result without a cause.  

When it comes to love, you are not the owner of it.  When you come before your parents, you should say, "Yes, Mother and Father, you are right."

Your parents may say that no matter how established, wealthy or intelligent you are, you cannot deviate from your duty to your mother and father.  Then you can reply as above.

You do this because of love.  Parents are the subject partners, and children are the object partners.  The subject partner serves the object partner, and the object partner follows the subject partner.

This is the principle of Heaven.

When this principle is breached, that house will collapse and end up worthless.  Because a person is born in accordance with heavenly nature, however uneducated he is, he knows the Principle of Heaven.  Therefore, even the strongest champion has to bow his head to his parents.

Humankind continues to be plagued by conflicts based on power or knowledge.  When the end of the world comes, the power of the fist and the power of knowledge will pass away.  Don't you realize that we are living in such times?

We are currently living in the war of love.

That is why religious leaders say that their time is coming. In the end, only the power of love will remain.

These are the Last Days, the final age of worldly supremacy.

Can a strong elder brother come home and become the boss of the house with his parents there?  No matter how strong a world champion he is in the ring, he cannot be the boss at home.  Even if the elder brother has hundreds of doctorates, when he returns home, he cannot be boss because his parents are there.

The Reason We Need Brothers and Sisters

Why do we need brothers and sisters?

Because boys can watch their younger brothers and sisters and learn how their mothers grew up.  Girls can watch their naughty elder brothers and see how their father grew up.

This is called the love of brothers and sisters.

Therefore, you should love your siblings.  Also, you should learn to love your siblings as you love your father and mother.

You cannot love our brothers and sister of the world if you do not learn how to within the family.  So, therefore, through observing your siblings you can learn how our parents grew up and come to love them as your parents do.

In this way, you will be able to love your mother and father when you go to the next world.

You need your brothers and sisters in order to be an owner of love without shame. 

Would it be better for siblings to love each other more than they love their parents, or less than their parents?

It is better if they love each other more.  Why is this so?

Because watching and loving your brothers and sisters is the same as watching and loving your father and mother when they were growing up.  When you do this, it fulfills the condition of loving  your parents from their birth to their death.

Thus, brothers and sisters are connected to each other through such love.  That's why we think this way.  In the case of the parents, the more children they have, the more they can learn about their spouses.

For example, the wife might see her son act in a certain way and she can think, "Oh, this is probably how my husband was growing up."

So, loving the children is the same as loving the spouse the way he or she was before they met.

The husband can watch and learn from the daughter and say, 'Oh, she is showing me how my wife would have been when she was young."

Through loving the children, the husband fulfills the condition of loving every aspect of the wife.  The mother and father do not say, "Love only the boys, not the girls."

Loving parents love their sons and daughters equally, without discrimination.

So by having sons and daughters, a beautiful circle of love in the family is formed. 

Parents will treat the children equally.  All parents are like this.

The first rule in family education: hating your brother or sister is a greater sin than hating your mother.

Suppose after you have a fight with your brothers or sisters you leave the house.  The least you can do when  you return is to hold a party so that you can make them happy again.

Ask them for forgiveness and tell them that you should love one another as you love your parents.

Brothers and sisters represent your father and mother.

If they were poor, then help them and serve them as you would serve your mother.  There would be nothing more beautiful than this. This is where the Kingdom of Heaven begins.

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True Family Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Four Chapter 2

Humanity Will Reach Perfection

Many people, even those of faith wonder how is it possible that God a perfect being could create such imperfect beings.

When God created man and woman, He intended for them to mature into perfection, marry and be established as the heavenly husband and wife.  Then when they pass to the next world, they automatically go to the heavenly kingdom.

God planned to make Adam and Eve the first husband and wife in history that establish the foundation of the Kingdom of Heaven based upon their true relationship.  If we had realized this in the beginning, then the first two blessings, be fruitful and multiply, would have been achieved there.

We may believe that we have already achieved this because the human race multiplies and bears children, but this is nowhere connected to God or His true love or else we would carry God's pure blood lineage and not a sinful one.

What Human Beings Can Be Most Proud Of

God gave humanity the power to multiply His pure children.

Their children would have been born without sin and would have grown into perfection as sinless beings. There would be no need for redemption, prayer, saving or religion. If we followed God's word in the beginning, our relationship would have never been severed in need of restoring.

What else would have occurred?

Adam and Eve would give birth to sinless children and they would become the true father and true mother of humankind centering on God.  They would have become True Parents and not false parents of humanity.

If Adam had reached perfection, they would have achieved not only individual perfection, but also the perfection of heaven and earth.  Moreover, a new family based totally on God's love would have been established.

This family would have expanded to the worldwide level bring about world peace.  The world would have become a community of one large family serving God.  The center of that community would have been God and Adam.

The life course of Adam's family and their everyday life, centered on God, would have established the traditions for history without interruption.  Such traditions would be bound forever with God's love.

God's love is the source of life and the origin of all ideals. 

People would not be able to leave His embrace even if they wanted to.

Even if they had to leave, they would have no choice, but to return.  Even in this fallen world, we see that someone who has once lived for their parents has to leave the family, they become lonesome and miss them all the time.

Also, when someone is linked to the love of God, who is the subject of life and ideals, they would not be able to leave God.

If that person does turn away from God, they would feel so lonely and unhappy that they would never be able to feel joy.

Therefore, they would have no choice but to become one in the realm of God's love.

Under these circumstances, human beings can be proud of three facts: first God is our father; second we are the children of God who can receive His love; and third, we are the heirs to the universe created by God.

Have you ever heard people brag that they married into a rich family?  Compared to that, words cannot express how proud you would be if God were your father and you could receive His complete joy.

If Adam and Eve had established God's ideal family from the start, God's will would have been realized then and a world of peace would have automatically grow from there.

Adam's family would have served God as their original father.  Then they would become the family that is the starting point of one united love as the ancestors of humankind.

This family would have formed the basis upon which Adam and Eve would have united into one in love.  From here, they would perfect their ideals.

Adam's Family Should Have Set the Tradition as the True Family

If humanity had become perfected as God had planned, whose sons and daughters would you be?

Without question, you would be the sons and daughters of God.  

Well, we just said that we already are the sons and daughters of God and we receive His love.  But how can fallen children come from an absolute parent?

Therefore, after our direct link to God was severed, He took responsibility for His children's mistake through the course of restoration.  We have become God's adopted children who link to God through His son, Jesus.

Therefore, if Adam and Eve had not fallen, all human beings would have been God's true sons and true daughters.  It would be likened to Adam and Eve being just as perfect as Jesus.

We would not have been people who could be toyed with, dominated or slandered by the enemy as we are today.

God's son has absolute power.

He represents the absolute authority and power of God wherever he goes.

When a family is formed centered on God's true son, that family thus becomes God's family before which the entire cosmos should surrender.

Moreover, when a tribe centered on that family comes into being, the whole of creation must safeguard that tribe and be assimilated into it.

We not only lost our position as true sons and daughters of God, but we are tormented endlessly by the enemy.

If the first human parents had not disobeyed God's commandment and went their own way, they would have become one with God forever.

No one, not even the archangel, would be able to sever the relationship of love based on that unity.

What theory or doctrine could deny the father's identity once sons and daughters grow up into maturity?

Even if someone was to question them about their father's identity at gunpoint, they would not have been able to deny who he was.

Humanity now does not even know for sure whether their Father exists or not.

If Adam and Eve had not fallen, the first family of heaven would have been formed in the Garden of Eden.

That family would have prospered under God's sovereignty, immune to any of Satan's attacks, temptations or slanders.

They would have received all of God's love.  If they had united into one in God's love as the son and daughter receiving God's complete love, they would have given birth to true children centering on God's love.

God's love would have constantly surrounded them.  They then would have established the tradition of the ideal husband, ideal wife, son and daughter.  God's will would have been realized, if the first family's tradition had been based totally on God's love.

Adam and Eve should have become perfect by the will of God.  

Then receive the Marriage Blessing approved and given by God. Upon the basis of their family. they would have established God's nation.

Adam and Eve should have achieved perfection first based on love.  If they had based their horizontal relationship under God, the fulfillment of His will would have been laid and that world would have extended all the way from the national level to the cosmic level.

This world would have been based on the tradition of Adam and Eve achieving oneness as husband and wife.  However, we did not see this tradition take place because Adam and Eve did not follow God's will and fell away from God completely.

This is the sorrowful tradition which we have passed on non-stop generation to generation.

God has been working non-stop since the Fall to bring humanity back to the original position.  Now, that we have passed into the new Completed Testament Age, by attending True Parents who reverse the Fall, we can become perfected through true families.

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This post was rewritten and derived from True Family Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Four, Chapter 1