God Resembles More Than a Man

People of faith have regarded God as their father. But has anyone ever thought that God has more to the equation?

Why would God only resemble a man if He fashioned us as Himself?  Wouldn't God also resemble a woman? This is a good question.

God has dual characteristics of plus and minus.  The plus manifests as Adam and the minus manifests as Eve.

This means that one son and one daughter are the substantial object partners to God.  Therefore, a true man, represents God's plus characteristics and a woman represents God's minus characteristics.

God's internal nature is divided into two characteristics: Man and woman each resemble one characteristic of God when they are born.

God brings the two characteristics together in harmony and reunites them in a form that resembles His internal nature.

Since a man and woman who have reached perfection are the union of God's plus and minus characteristics, they become a harmonious being like God.

This is why a united husband and wife represents the whole of God.

The man becomes an incarnation of the true father's body by representing God's plus characteristics, and the woman becomes an incarnation of the true mother's body by representing the minus characteristics. 

Each man and woman is a representative of God.

Therefore, when a husband and wife come one through love, this is the same as embracing heaven and earth.  This is an encounter on the universal level.

In today's society, love relationships hardly resemble all the directions a true relationship encompass.  At the least a couple may relate to each other only on the level of man and woman, but the true relationship relates to one another on many different levels. 

The husband resembles all men, therefore he occupies more than just the husband position.

He is the representative of the father, elder brother at the same time as he is the husband; since the wife represents all women, she is a representative of the mother, elder sister at the same time as she is the wife.

Thus, this true couple cannot help but love and respect one another.  The man is the yang (plus) image of God and the woman is the yin (minus) image of God.

The coming together of a husband and wife is the same as wrapping heaven and earth in a wrapping cloth.Therefore, the husband and wife feel God's ideal heart of love when they come into oneness.

The man symbolizes heaven, and the woman symbolizes earth. 

The man and woman must unite forming harmony and parallel lines.

The relationship of husband and wife is not just limited to itself, but it represents heaven and earth.  When a man and woman perfect their love, it is the same as the perfection of the universe.

On the other hand, if this love was to shatter, then the order of the universe would be destroyed.  The vertical would would also be utterly demolished.

Which direction did the first husband and wife go?  They were disunited and did not resemble God, therefore, we inherited this kind of conflict which has developed on the universal level.

When a true man and true woman embrace in a loving manner, this is an occasion where the universe becomes one.  This was how God's true nature would have been realized in the human world.

Human beings are born as man and woman because of love.  Love bears fruit when a man and woman become husband and wife.

Thus becoming one.  Men and women are the substantial manifestations of God's love through the dual characteristics.  The two separate characteristics must find God's love in order to unite into one.

For a man and woman to encounter God's love, they must become one in love.  

Therefore, once we are able to meet God's love, we are able to live on the exact same level equal to God.

Modern religion teaches us that God is almighty, above all, all-knowing and all powerful and human beings cannot think to come near to Him except in a lowly position.  This is not the original plan.

It would be blasphemy to think otherwise. But human beings only came to this position after they had chosen another route outside of God's ideal.

Surely God would not give up on His ideal bearing fruit.  Therefore, God has cut a path where humanity can rise to a position where we can stand next to God. This was the original idea for creation.

When a husband and wife become one in God's love after they have become completely one in love, then they can advance all the way to God's position.

Therefore, after fulfilling God's ideal, whatever God possesses, then His children possess.  This is the three great blessings.

God's power is so amazing that He allows His children the authority to participate as co-creators.  At the same time, they inherit the entire ownership of God.

Adam's desire was to dominate heaven and earth.

The value of a true husband and wife would represent the central value of the whole world.  God valued that relationship.  We should see how holy and valuable the original love of a husband and wife is who are untainted by the Fall.  This is the original man and the original woman.

The Reason We Need Conjugal Love

What kind of place is the Kingdom of Heaven?

Simply put, heaven is a place where perfected people, who have true love, enter and live.

Okay, then what kind of people would they be?

Human beings are either man or woman, therefore the perfection of God's ideal love cannot be realized on earth without men or women.

God's love cannot be completed without perfected men and women who possess the ownership of love.

True families must be built in the nation and realize a family Kingdom of Heaven.

Based on this family, the Kingdom of Heaven on earth will be established.  Why is that so?

In order to feel and live in this Kingdom of Heaven in the future, you absolutely need a partner.  You receive stimulation in your family through your partner.

The previous posts speak about how heaven on earth is the extension of a family that has lived in and practiced love on the four relationships of husband and wife, sister and brother, parents and children and mother and father centered on God.

Through your daily life experience within this familial relationships, you can deeply learn the ideal of the future heavenly kingdom.

In order to deeply learn how to live in the heavenly realm, a husband and wife need each other.  Through this stimulation, the husband and wife will learn how to live eternally.

Progress does not move without stimulation.  Conjugal love pulls all the loves of the future into the realm of the present, gives stimulation, supplies the driving force, and brings them to that place.  The love of husband and wife contains the love for the nation, love for the world, and God's love.

Therefore, that love is able to pass freely anywhere.  Only a husband and wife who are united and love one another are able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

This is why a married couple that loves each other while they are on earth are always living in the heavenly kingdom.

Jesus was asked where the Kingdom of Heaven was and he answered that it was in your mind, didn't he?

But today, based on the teachings of the Divine Principle realize Jesus was to take it to the next level. We say that the Kingdom of Heaven is in the family.

If the Kingdom of Heaven is realized in the family, then our purpose will be fulfilled in the Church.  When you look at it this way, you should find and walk the right path centering on the Principle.

In order to realize the Kingdom of Heaven, a married man should be able to love all the women of the world with a heart with which he loves his own wife.

You should think that you selected your wife as the representative partner of all the women of the world.

Likewise, you should not think that your husband is just a husband.  You should think he has been selected as a representative from among all the men of the world.  

This is how women should behave: you should love one man not as one person, but as a representative of all men of the world; that man represents the father, the elder brother and the husband.

This means that a woman should think of her husband as her grandfather, father as well as her elder brother and younger brother.

Through this pure connection, a woman should be able to love her father, grandfather, her elder brother and younger brother.

Only such women can have a partner.

If a woman was to only like her husband, but did not like her father, grandfather, elder brother, younger brother and everyone else, this would be in violation of God's commitment to the greater good.
Therefore, you should carry the heart that is able to love all the men of the world and have a greater outlook that your husband, whom you embrace and love, is a man who is like a fruit of all these relations.

Therefore, if you develop a heart that can love your partner as your parents and brothers by transcending all nations and border, you will be regarded as God's son and daughter.  This is our philosophy.

An Ideal Conjugal Relationship

A true husband is able to say, "Since I was born for your sake, I will live for you and die for you."  This is the same with a true wife.

They are well-suited for each other and live for each other's sake, going beyond their own selves. If such a couple has a family, this family will inevitably become an ideal family, a family of happiness and a family of peace.

No matter how rich, talented or capable a man may be, the motivation of his birth does not lie within himself, because he is born for the sake of a woman.

Can a man be born without a woman?

In the same way, even if a woman can boast about being an America wearing the best makeup, she is still not born for her own sake.  Hence, a man should have broad shoulders and a woman should have broad hips so that they can fit together well.

Where are the ideal husband and wife of true love found?

An ideal husband and wife appear when they converge into one and serve one another, rather than their own interest.   

Can we find ideal people in a place where everyone just lives for themselves in a private manner?  No, we find such people in a place where they try to live for the sake of others.  The husband should be able to give his life for his wife and the wife should be able to give her life for her husband.

A couple who sacrifices in this way will be connected to the realm of God's love and receive direct protection, therefore, they will never fall.

A man should love his wife more than any other man in the world loves her.  Also, when a woman loves her husband, she should love him more than any other woman in the world loves him.  This is the ethics of love which a husband and wife should follow in order to realize a true family.

True parents live and die for the sake of their children. This is because love is established there in the family.

Likewise a couple that lives in true love appear only when they live for each other's sake and become one in love.  This is an ideal married couple.

A bride and bridegroom should become one through God's original love, not through money, lust, political power or honor.  

In secular relationships, we see that the wife receives energy from her husband when he makes a lot of money.

She receives energy when she sees the success and the money he has made.  He, thus, receives energy when he sees her receiving energy.

Then what happens when the money stops flowing in abundance?

Such a couple becomes anxious and their relationship begins to break down.  Haven't you witnessed this yourself?

A true married couple should become one in love based on God.

Such a couple should gradually progress in their love.  Through the wife loving her husband and the husband loving his wife, a couple should create a family that loves God.  

People should love their spouse as God's representative. 

If a couple loves each other based on just their human viewpoint, then when they see all of their faults and shortcomings, they will not be able to fully accept it and love as God does.

They might soon seek a divorce.

Today's society, husband and wives have separate bank accounts and keep tabs of how much money they give their husbands.

This is quite a strange couple, isn't it?  They distinguish their own money and their husband's money.  They also claim crisp bills as their own and the wrinkled bills as the man's, this does not look like love.

Wives should be willing to open up their purse and use the money for good purposes.  They should put their money to good use and use more.  This is how it should be.

But a wife that gets angry and spouts that her husband has spent more money than she has, she is in error.

You are happy when you are able to give without limit.  When you are able to give and take at any time you please, whether it is in a deep place, low place or whether it is night or day, you will be happy.

Hence, you will be miserable if you are unable to give even if you want to give, and unable to receive even if you want to receive.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: Why Are Humans Born?

This post was rewritten and taken from the book Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Four -  True Family, Chapter Seven Section 1-3