Impact of Sex Without Commitment

Even though no intimate relationship is immune from experiencing bad times, having a committed marriage between two God-centered individuals can be the best defense against the worst influences that break up relationships.

Sex within uncommitted relations offers no protection and invites the most destructive kinds of interactions to take place.

The guilty parties in the Bible's Genesis story blamed each other for their own wrongdoing.

“Sex always changes the dynamics of a relationship,” observes educator Josh McDowell.

Essentially, any relationship outside a committed relationship is a sibling relationship, between brothers and sisters.

Therefore, when two individuals have casual sex, they no longer or maybe never will fully enjoy the benefits of a friendship or reap the complete rewards of married love.

This is why Reverend Sun Myung Moon cautions single men and women to not get physically involved, not even holding hands, because it depletes the potential for true love between them.

Also, having sex outside of marriage not only affects the two individuals, but compromises relations between friends, other peers and potential marriage partners.  This may also impact future marriage.


Impact on the Relationship

1. Stress with parents and friends
2. Problems with partners
3. Negative effect on future marriage



1. Stress with Parents and Friends

Parents have a deep stake in their children and grandchildren who are the extension of their blood and investment of heart.

When children begin to enter into sexual relations outside the form of marriage, their parents may feel worried, disrespected and hurt.

This breach can be difficult to mend just as when Adam and Eve who could not face their divine Parent and hid from God after their indiscretion.

When one gets obsessed over a sex partner, it reduces the attention given to friends. In addition, of sex only intensifies feelings on all sides.

Nothing is as divisive as sexual jealousy.

Close friends can become the best enemies overnight.

When there is a crowd of friends that are sexually active, it can become a web of attraction, rivalry, possessiveness, jealousies and betrayal.

Even the most innocent gestures become suspicious by a jealous partner.

When one betrays his spouse with infidelity, the friends are then added to the betrayal list.

 “After the initial shock of his affair wore off,” recalls Eugene, 45, a computer instructor, “I found myself dealing with my own anger. How dare he betray his wife, who was my friend! How dare he hurt his young daughters, who are my daughter’s playmates! And then I realized he lied to me too, over and over.”

2. Problems with Partners

“Once burned, twice shy” is uttered by many people who experienced heartache from a breakup of  a sexual bond.

They remember the pain and this one betrayal will stand in the way of them giving themselves completely and trust the ones who deserve their love.

Women may distrust all males as only wanting them for their body.

Males can mistrust and fear which last for years even until they find the right person to marry.

Sometimes the introduction of sex disrupts a warm and caring friendship that might well have been a good basis for marriage.

“Everyone thought we’d be married, including us,” one middle-aged man reminisced about a girl from his youth. “We were very close and didn’t need sex. But everyone expected it and we thought we were missing something. Finally we slept together. Afterwards we felt different about each other. What we had just faded away.”

Conversely, when two people have a horrible relationship that has no future, they may stay in it longer because of the strong bonding power of sex.  It becomes difficult after a couple experiences such a powerful physical intimacy that they are lacking in the emotional closeness.

Sex not only multiplies one's own ego, but it is an addictive pleasure which brings on rationalizations and demands.

One partner comes to expect sex at every opportunity.

When the other refuses to give sex, this can launch  the other to become violent.  It is a fact that when one gets involved in sex outside of marriage, especially live-in lovers, there is more violence and other forms of abuse than among married couples.

Because we posses both a mind and a body, once physical intimacy is introduced into the relationship, then the heart yearns for the same level of emotional intimacy.

Yet, having sex too early in a new relationship makes that longing harder to fulfill because it can overpower any meaningful communication or friendship-building activities together.

Thus, the couple may avoid taking the effort to understand the other and work out their differences.

One college woman admitted that ironically, “Having sex is easier than talking face to face and having to deal with all the things that come up.”

Once a couple no longer has quality interaction outside of the bedroom, then the relationship collapses from within.



3. Negative Effect on Future Marriage

Just because a couple gets married and have children, they are not free from the ill effects of premarital sexual experiences.

The problem of self-centered sexual habits can be carried into the marriage bed.

Marital sex is supposed to be one of uninhibited surrender to the joy of pleasing the one they love within the safe context of acceptance and commitment.

When those who have repeatedly used sex for selfish reason enter into a committed relationship, they find it difficult to switch it from a selfish act to one of giving to the other.

Those who were virgins when they married learn the other's wants and needs and attune to one another, those who are already experienced have habits and preferences that may obstruct that harmony.

Second, because people hardly forget a past sexual partner, one who is experienced may be haunted by images of past partners even after marriage.  They may unconsciously compare their spouse's performance to past lovers.

This must not only disturb them, but also is heartening to the spouse if they find out.

Who wants to have a spouse that compares their body or performance to another lover of the past?

One young husband observed, “Whenever I kiss my wife or engage in love play, my memory reminds me that this girl could kiss better than my wife, that that girl was better at something else, and so forth. I can’t concentrate on loving my wife with all that I have—there have been too many women in my life to be wholly committed to one.”

Since sex before marriage is taboo, males can be conditioned to connect premarital sexual arousal with the thrill of doing something illicit – the forbidden encounter and the excitement of possibly being discovered.

This sexual excitement can be psychologically linked to risk.

Later on in life, a sexually experienced person may see the safety and legitimacy of marriage as to tamed to be arousing.  Therefore, in order for a husband to get sexually aroused, he is constantly drawn to illicit stimulation such as affairs or pornography.


Weak bonding and predisposition to breakup

Fourthly, after one has many encounters, sex may lose its potency to build strong attachment to one who they finally choose as a lifemate.

Research suggests the chemical sexual bonding power may grow feebler after having already imprinted the heart and mind with previous partners.

On the other side, disappointing sexual experiences can lead one to avert sex or have a feeling of boredom during the act.

One can get into the habit of holding their heart from a sex partner because of many experiences with sex in unsecure relationships that turned sour.

Instead of viewing sex as wholesome and giving of the mind, body and soul like virgins on their wedding day, one may find it challenging to completely give of themselves even with their spouses.  This can be hard to overcome even after years of marriage.

A final consequence of indulging in unmarried sex is the possibility of divorce.

Couples who lived together first before they were married, are more likely to break up some time after they get married.

Research also shows that women who were sexually active before marriage have less stable and satisfying marriages than those who were virgins before marriage.

Those who have a series of sexual relationships learn many things, not the least of which is break-ups and failure in relationships.

Sex amplifies an already present atmosphere of understanding, acceptance and intimacy within a marriage.

On the other hand, outside of marriage, sex only aggravates insecurity, lack of trust and misunderstanding, making real intimacy harder to attain.

One single 21-year-old woman, a rock musician, agrees: “Leaving sexual intercourse out makes it easier to enjoy a relationship . . . . Without sex, you can be yourself—it’s more comfortable. It helps you figure out faster what kind of person they are if they are right for you.

You can also get out of a relationship easier—you’re not glued by the sex. Sex complicates things and confuses you. Sex just slows down everything if what you’re interested in is a good relationship.”


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The Joy of Marriage

We need marriage because it is the true way to develop our love . . . . Our entire life  should be centered on true love. We should be born in true love; we should grow in true love; we should live centered on true love, and we should return to true love when we die. The way of truelove is life for the sake of others. This is the purpose of a holy marriage.

—Hak Ja Han Moon

There was a very popular book a few decades ago called, "The Joy of Sex".  At that time, society was still phasing through the tenants of the 1960s sexual revolution, where people were still discovering different relationship styles and sex outside of marriage as acceptable.

God built marriage to help each member grow toward perfection of heart through their other-centered love.

Marriage lifts each individual spiritually and physically to the the spouse’s realm of heart.  Marriage also brings the individuals in a marriage closer to God.

In this realm, the couple has the potential to grow to resemble God’s heart and love and extend this love to the world around them.

There is no relationship outside marriage that has the potential for oneness, thus it is the one relationship that demands for surrender of the self.

Therefore, through this sacrifice, marriage promotes true love which at its base is living for the sake of the other.  As marital expert Judith Wallerstein said, “A marriage that commands loyalty . . .requires each partner to relinquish self-centeredness.“

Marshall Fightlin, a Catholic psychologist, asserts that it is the husband’s daily task to fight the impulses to act like a single man and to concern himself with his other half - his wife.

The blessings of marriage appear only when there is renunciation of the self in favor of the other.

The word ‘renunciation’ is familiar to those of any faith, because many worldly things must be renounced in order to embrace God wholly.  Marriage is part of this process.

Marriage is the renunciation of all other romantic and sexual relationships other than with the spouse.
This means that a person’s habit and attitudes that may hinder the couple’s life together must be denied.

It is a paradox that this denial of the self in favor of the other person actually enriches and enhances the self.

Through this, joy and excitement of life is increased.

Theologian Karl Barth says, “It is always in relationship to their opposite that man and woman are what they are in themselves.”

People become whole through marriage.


The God-Centered Marriage

Marriage also brings a couple closer to God.

The rabbis taught that a union of one flesh between a man and a woman is the only full representation of the image of God.

God exists in a community of three persons, so a solitary, isolated human being without a counterpart is necessarily incomplete.

Mrs. Moon says, “We marry in order to resemble God.

God is a being of dual characteristics which are completely harmonized as One. These characteristics manifest into our world as man and woman.

At the proper time, a man and woman are like a seed which will unite to become one.

Thus, a husband and wife together return to God.  Marriage resembles God because it embodies the universal attraction of yin and yang, positive and negative and masculine and feminine.

A woman represents the feminine aspects of the universe, and a man represents the masculine aspects. 

A man and woman yearn to unite.

One’s spouse is a gateway to the opposite half of the universe.  Therefore, the spouse has a value that is equivalent to half of the universe and is indispensable to intimately understanding the total nature of God.

Marriage is an important pivotal point in the journey toward God.  Mrs. Moon, Reverend Moon’s wife, states that if we take a path other than true love in marriage, then we adversely affect the path of our eternal life.

In the process of salvation, a holy marriage centered upon God and true love is instrumental.  This is why a godly marriage is the central part of Reverend and Mrs. Moon’s ministry.  Marriage is so significant both temporal and eternal.

They call a God-centered marriage, “The Blessing” which is a sacrament that symbolically cuts their satanic past and engrafts them to a bright future with God.

The Blessing is not just for the couple themselves, it is very significant to save their ancestral lineage, their descendants and the role they play in human society.

The ‘Blessing’ of marriage connects a couple to the body of humanity.

This makes the Blessing a highly responsible venture to partake.

It is a marriage that is far removed from the being solely for the couple’s pleasure and goes beyond just their children.

The Blessing echoes and takes to greater heights sentiments
about marriage such as author Jo McGowan’s:

To marry, to celebrate a love and a commitment publicly . . . is to say that the meaning of one’s life can only be found in the context of a community. It is to acknowledge one’s part in the human family, to recognize that one’s life is more than one’s own, that one’s actions affect more than oneself. It is to proclaim that marriage is more than a private affair between one woman and one man . . . . [It is] to be part of the human community, to start building the kingdom of God here on earth.




In order for marriage to play such a role in society and building the Kingdom of God, Reverend Moon holds Blessing ceremonies gathering thousands of couple.  These consists of newly married and those rededicating their marriages in front of God with a new, higher-standard devotion to God.

He believes marriage is not for oneself and spouse alone, but also for God and humanity.

Love that Partakes of Divinity

Author Antoine’s de Saint-Exupery’s ideal agrees, “Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.“

This is where the idea of the trinity and community within marriage become most apparent.

When husband and wife unite in a Blessed marriage, consciously centered upon God, they form a trinity. 

Through giving and receiving between God, husband and wife, the flow of love is perpetuated.

Then the couple radiates benevolence to their children, friends, acquaintances and community.

Catholicism has a similar program, “Marriage Encounter” which also sees the true love of a couple that is centered upon God as a way to salvation for the community.

Psychologist Erich Fromm authenticates this kind of love when he described that true love affects how a person relates to the world. “If I truly love one person, I love all persons, I love the world.”

One husband described such a marriage as touching the “love that includes everything and everybody, the love that’s universal . . . everything that is good about connectedness and caring for others.”

Through martial life, men and women are able to experience all the possible family relationships between them.

At times a husband may be a friend to his wife or like a brother or uncle, also a father and son.

A woman may sometimes be her husband’s sister, mother, daughter, or grandmother.

Love of husband and wife, or conjugal love, encompasses the constellation of relationship with others.  This love helps couples understand various aspects of the heart of God.

A couple’s love and oneness becomes substantially and eternally embodied in the creation of a child. 

God creates by reuniting elements of masculine and feminine into one and creating a new being from this unity.

In this way, we can say that marriage leads to a family which is a complete reflection of God in all His glory.

Marriage and family are the embodiment and full representation of the image of God.

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Advantages of Marriage

A man and woman will learn from each other through their union things about themselves, humanity and our Creator that can not be known in any other way.


“Man is born to meet woman and woman is born to meet man.  And man and woman together are born to combine with a higher level of love, God’s love. Neither man nor woman can touch God’s higher love by themselves.”

This means that when a man weds, his woman is a kind of savior in countless ways.  Just as a husband is like her personal messiah.  This is the where the foundation for spouses to have inexpressible gratitude for one another.

Oneness between a man and a woman is relative.  First, they have the deal with the inherited legacy of conflict between men and women.  Then there is the inherent contradiction between partner's words and their actual deeds that makes true love itself a great struggle.  This is why when masculine and feminine become one, it remains a grand challenge as uniting the mind and body.



The Rewards of Commitment

In a husband and wife relationship, research supports the power of having continual investment.  A study found that couples whose relationship was distressed that almost 8 out of 10 reported being content in their marriage after they persevered for five more years.

Those who gave up on their marriage and decided to divorce, they were not any happier the ones who stayed married in their peer group, or those who even remarried.

This information reveals the importance of sticking things through and staying commit meted.  If people remained through the ups and downs, this investment will surely yield fruit.

“One advantage of marriage,” notes author Judith Viorst, “is that when you fall out of love with each
other, it keeps you together until maybe you fall in again.”

The heartbreaks and hardships that accompany any long-term relationship can turn into an element of deep bonding.


“I did not even want to deal with all the difficulties in my marriage. It was easier just to put on a game face, have a few drinks and dive deeper into my job,” one man remembers. “But my pastor forced me to say some things to my wife that needed saying, and to face what I was doing wrong too. Now I look back at that time as a period that made us a lot closer.”

The Bible encourages couples to love each other in a proper way - as “joint heirs of the grace of life..in order that your prayers may not be hindered. (1 Peter 3.7 RSV)

The oneness between spouses is a lightning rod for divine blessing.

At the same time, when a man and woman unite in deep abiding love, the joy that is created and prosperity they share from the blessing will spread to their children, all who know them, the greater human community and the Creator Himself.


Identifying with their gender community


Societies used to have rites of initiation when a boy was transitioning into manhood aor girls into womanhood so that they youth could solidify their gender identity.

In modern society, boys and girls still participate in single-gender team sports, or clubs like the Boys and Girls Scouts, to give challenges and opportunities to win respect among their elders and peers.

The military still serves in this traditional way for young men.

Even after marriage, men and women both continue to receive empowerment and comfort when they are in the company of their same-sex friends.

When they are joking around together, this characterizes the banter of male buddies.  They give silent respect and honor one another which in turn renews them.

Likewise, the “girl talk’ between women is a reassuring reinforcement of a sense of connection and support in their lives.

This is why both sexes need to enjoy the company of same-sex company on a regular basis to ‘retreat and regroup’ to strengthen their ability to give to the opposite-sex individuals in their lives.



Unification through Marriage



The ultimate unification of masculine and feminine takes place in marriage and in making a family.


When a husband and wife hold each other, their children will understand and appreciate the opposite sex.

To the woman, her husband and sons represent masculinity in all phases of development.

Similarly, the man embraces all femininity through his love for his wife and daughters. Thus marriage and family life provide the fascinating ongoing adventure of bonding and integration between masculinity and femininity.

Marriage and family life thus makes men and women into a better mirror of the divine. 

“In the image of God he created him; male and female he created them,” the Bible reminds us; man and woman together echoes the Creator’s own “wedded” nature (Genesis
1.27).




Hindu scripture speaks of the original Self, the Creator, splitting in two to make man and woman. Thus each is “like half of a split pea” (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.4.3).

Such a couple is a full mirror of the Godhead. Indeed, Reverend Moon characterizes the married couple as the smallest unit of humanity, in the sense of fulfilling the purpose of human creation as God’s complete reflection and love partner.

The love between a man and woman can be uniquely edifying because they are complementary in physique and psyche.  They can feel ‘as one’.  They can feel knit together in mind, heart and body the same way same-sex friends never can.

When man and woman give into marriage in heart and body, their “humanity is rejoined and fulfilled,” in the words of philosopher Michael Novak.


The result is a certain “distinctive honesty, realism, and wisdom taught by each sex to the other.”19 A man and woman learn through their union things about themselves, humanity and the Creator that can be known no other way.

“Man is born to meet woman and woman is born to meet man,” says Reverend Moon. “And man and woman together are born to combine with a higher level of love, God’s love.

Neither man nor woman can touch God’s higher love by themselves.

In this sense, a man’s wedded woman is a kind of savior in countless ways, just as a woman’s husband is like her personal messiah. This is the basis of the inexpressible gratitude spouses often feel towards each other.


Potential for oneness

Because men and women are indeed made for each other, given sufficient time and effort, the unity of heart between a man and woman is to be expected. The magnetism between masculinity and femininity can overcome differences. Since their Origin is an integrated whole, they too can integrate into wholeness.

Even though such an idea is hard to reconcile with popular notions of romance, it is the ordinary experience of the millions of couples over countless generations who were strangers when married and who grew to deeply love each other.

This is captured in the memorable lyrics of the song from “Fiddler on the Roof,” when Tevye reminisces about his arranged marriage to Golde, his wife, and says to her,

But my father and my mother said we’d learn to love each other

And now I’m asking, Golde, ‘Do you love me?’

After protesting that for “Twenty-five years my bed is his; If that’s not love, what is?,” she concedes that indeed she does.

And so between two people who may not have been attracted to each other at first.

Recalls Ann Meara, half of the long-married comedy team, Stiller and Meara, “Was it love at first sight? It wasn’t then—but it sure is now.”23 This may not be the self-conscious and passionate ardor of young lovers, but it is a deeply rooted, comfortable kind of caring and unity not unlike the attachment a person has to his or her own arm.


Continual Devotion

For this reason, a sixth principle for true love is Investing towards Oneness.

Ultimately the Creator represents the highest and original purpose. Those who center their relationship upon God invite Him to manifest Himself and His beauty, truth and goodness in the partnership and its fruits.

Examples are endless, since this is the dynamic behind all productive
relationships, even in the inanimate world.

Protons and electrons have opposite charges that attract each other. They interact
as subject and object partners, driven by atomic law that contains a higher purpose, and create a new existence, a hydrogen atom.

A professor as the subject partner engages in give and take with her students as object partners, based on the curriculum as their shared purpose, resulting in an enriching learning experience for all.

A band comes together to express their common vision of music, and the members interact with one another in lead and backup roles.

Their degree of unity is directly reflected in their music. A coffee shop manager in the leader position hires counter help in the supportive role.

The manager treats the workers well and the counter servers are diligent and loyal, resulting in a productive business that realizes the shared goal of profits and service to the community.

A pastor prays with his youth ministry staff as his helpers and together they craft a marriage preparation ministry that leads many young people through purity into matrimony and a deeper commitment to God.

Implicit in this observation is that whenever any relationship is unfruitful—or destructive, as is possible in the case of human relations—certainly there is a problem with the nature of the urpose or the interaction or both.

“My high school football team was undefeated in our state,” one young man recalls. “But sorry to say, the victories went to our heads.

We lost our focus on doing our best and got complacent.

At the same time, a lot of us starting worrying about showing off for the college scouts and we forgot about the team.

When we got to the regionals, we blew every game.”

In other words, the team lost its vertical purpose and the horizontal interactions also deteriorated.



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Four Worlds of Heart in Family

All the evidence from the previous posts show that there is something important for human development in the very structure of the family.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon summarizes that roles in the family create a certain 'realm of heart'. This heart fostered between the relationships between mother-father, parents-children, siblings, and God and family becomes a school for love.

People learn about love through being sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, mothers and fathers.

“The family teaches by its form,” as educator Gabriel Moran explains it.

Each realm of heart reflects an aspect of God's love.

God is the Parent of all parents. He has the absolute love that surpasses the love of even model parents. With that love He can embrace all the parents of the world. In fact, God created man from His parental love.

Without that love from God, we die.

God is always ready to give the type of love that is best suited for the person who is seeking a relationship with Him.

If we are ready for parental love from God, He is prepared to give it. If we want brotherly love, conjugal love, or the love of a friend from Him, He is ready with these.

It is so amazing and wonderful that God who is a God of love protects us in every possible relationship

When we fulfill each realm of heart (children's realm, siblings realm conjugal realm, and the parent's realm) we grow to resemble God's many-faceted love.

Each type of love that is exhibited in the family forms a world of experiences and responsibilities that becomes a matrix for the growth of heart.

Lessons in Loving Others

The family works to school people to have other-centered love through providing crucial relationships to learn from. Each realm of heart involves relating to significant others or partners in love.

In the child's ream of heart, the parents become their most significant other. The sibling's realms of heart, their brothers/sisters and peers are increasingly significant. Within the spouse's realms of heart, one has a relationship with the opposite sex who are emotionally and physically committed for the rest of one's life.

Children are the significant other in the parent's realm of heart.

True love begins with the infant responding to a parent in the child’s realm of love.

A baby is not alone in the universe. He or she is compelled to bond with others by all the forces within.

Many theorists conclude that a baby's attachment to their parent is a necessary building block of relating to others with empathy for the rest of their life.

The quality of the interactions between a parent and child is an essential love relationship that gives each a lifelong perspective on others.

When brothers and sisters interact with their siblings, this realm of heart offers a new territory where the growing child must accommodate others. He or she now shares the parents' universe with their sibilings.

One learns they must not hurt their sibling but must wait their turn and share.

In turn, the relationship of brother and sister in the family can offer joy of companionship and expand each child's love into new dimensions.

When a child must cooperate with their playmates or children at school, issues of fair play, justice, and honesty come to the foreground as he or she learns that there are yet others who need respect and accommodations.

Through experiencing the sibling's realm of heart, a child begins to relate to the world of their peers. The repertoire they obtain through these relationship expand dramatically, as well as their heart for others in society as they mature.

Maturity brings the world of the opposite sex into sharp focus.

A newlywed couple often feel that they are the only two people in the world.

This is how rich the world or realm they occupy together. It is an exclusive, intensely exciting, deeply affecting circle of relationships in which each will learn to love someone who is truly their 'other'. 

They will experience a different emotion and mental make-up than with others they encounter.

When one becomes a parent, he or she enters a realm of relationship with a child that opens up a whole new world of loving and caring.

The parent's realm of love is perhaps the most transformative relationship that resembles the heart and love of God the most closely.

With their children, parents have a dependent 'other' who needs and demands more than anyone else has demanded in a lifetime. They must be attendant to their growth. As a parent, rewards and blessings are enormous as well as anxieties and emotional taxes.

The heart grows here earnestly through other-centered love.

Grandparent's love is an extension of the parent's realm of heart. This love has its own special gifts to bestow and receive from the grandparents.

When we grow and understand the inner workings of the family through experiencing these four realms of heart, we grow to appreciate the brilliantly designed vehicle of emotional, moral and spiritual growth.

The impact of your family does not stop within its own relationships either. The lessons one learns from their interactions in the family is profound and far-reaching. It extrapolates into a person's orientation toward the rest of the world.

Ethicist James Q. Wilson said, “The family is a continuing locus of reciprocal obligations that constitute an unending school for moral instruction . . . . We learn to cope with the people of this world because we learn to cope with the members of our family.”

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The Nobility of Life on Earth

We all know the tale about the beginning of the world from the creation of light to the first breath of the human being from the earth.  But we have taken these Bible verses themselves in the wrong context.

The Bible account of God creating the world shows that God said the world was good after creating Adam and Eve.

It was the same as placing His signature after the completion of a project. This means that it was the way He had wanted the world to be.

At that time Heaven and Earth were not separated and evil did not exist.

Therefore, God intended that humanity would not fight among themselves and that we would not be separated from the spiritual world or heaven.

Instead, humanity has inherited a mind and body that fights for the number one position - to be subject the human.  Therefore, God created religion to teach us to strike our body and make it submit to the direction of our good mind.

We must cross over from the evil realm into goodness.

The complete victory of our body means that Satan will be completely extinguished and uprooted from our bodies and life.

That day of victory has been fought for by thousands of saints, sages and people of faith.

We will finally subjugate Satan.  We can only go to heaven through conquering Satan.

We are unable to conquer Satan once we pass on to the next world.  The evils that are bound here on earth will also be bound in heaven.

The original world, earth and heaven would be one in the same.

This means that we would be able to see a person who passed into the spirit world because this was God's original plan.  There would have been no earthquakes, floods and such if we just obey our creator's word over the evil one.

Because of the Fall where we separated from heaven and God while on earth, the problem of sin must be remedied while we have a body on earth.

Therefore, we cannot subjugate Satan without a physical body.

If we do not accomplish our designated tasks while on the earth where the problems were created, then we will end up in eternal hell.

On the other hand, when you triumph on earth and stand on the heavenly side of goodness, you can go to the Kingdom of Heaven.

Life on earth is to prepare us for life in the spirit world

You must understand how short a time we have on earth compared to the eternal life that awaits us.

Which would be more fruitful to sacrifice for: the world of the temporary here and now, or the one that will last unto eternity?

Once you realize this fact, your hours become precious when not spent as much on eating and sleeping and worrying about the temporal.

The more you live realizing each moment is precious and live it for other's sake, the more the blessing you will receive - more than anyone else in the whole wide world.

Even though we have a limited time on earth of possibly eighty to a hundred years, our possessions which represent the creation, thus, belong to the world.  Can you assert that you will be able to take your possessions or any notoriety into the next world?

Our bodies are the bodies of all the people of the world, and our minds are the minds of all the people of the world.  All of these combine to make an altar before God. Such a heart that lives this way is one with God.

Things do not happen by chance. Preparation is never easy. 

When we look at a life as a whole, we see that childhood is the time to prepare for adolescence, the prime of our life is to prepare for old age, which in turn is the time to prepare to go to the spirit world.

Therefore, we can see that our life is a training course that prepares us to acquire an universal personality.

We live in this world; yet it is not the only world that exists. 

We live on earth, but our spirit bodies live in the spirit world at the same time.

That is right.  As you are sitting and reading this, your spiritual body is interacting with the spirit world of spirit even though you live on the solid earth.

The world of spirit should be integrated together rather than in two separate worlds which was caused by the disobedience of our first ancestors.

Where do we go and live for eternity after the shedding of our bodies?

While living physically on earth, we proceed into the eternal world.

Ordinarily, people are born into this world, go through the time of youth, reach their prime and then enter old age.

Life passes like the setting sun.

Those who know the reality of the spirit world know that their lifetime is but a fleeting moment compared to eternal life after death.

Knowing this, our lifetime prepares us to welcome the world of eternity with God.

A student's performance is measured by the schools set standards based on the credits they are expected to take in an academic year.

If students do not get a high grade, they fail in accordance with the standard of merit which the school sets.

Everything can be measured by means of some norm.

Life on the physical world is parallel to the period which we prepare ourselves to meet the standard of 'credits' throughout life.

During our lifetime, we are ever striving to accumulate achievements.  The measure stick determines to what extent we have been able to fulfill our responsibility.

Do not do the hard task of digesting problems for just your own sake, rather for the sake of God, your nation, tribe, family and spouse.

Self-centered living is fraught with worries.

Conversely, if you constantly devote yourself to the welfare of others to the point you empty yourself out, you become a vacuum, and the truth will come into you.

Our pride is we have true love and secondly, we have True Parents who have reversed the mistake of the fall of the first false parents Adam and Eve.

We are the only ones to have this term, it is not in the dictionary.  Third is true children and fourth is a true tribe.  These relate to the four main goals of life of faith.

The preciousness of our life on earth

If you are liberated, God will be liberated.

Also, if your family is liberated, so is the heavenly family. It is the same with earth and heaven.  Accordingly,  the biblical statement, "Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven," refers to being able to liberate problems while on earth or wasting your life and keeping the problems which will stay with you when you get to heaven.

We must truly understand the preciousness of life on earth where you can make use of your body to restore back to its original God-given nature.

Our body gives us the opportunity to resurrect God and the universe and to unite the world.

God and the creation as a whole can never be exchanged for the value of life on earth.

Because if humankind did not exist physically on earth, God and the universe would be incomplete.

We must realize how precious the body is.

We cannot trade our physical selves even for the universe.  The biblical verse speaks about using your time on earth wisely, "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his eternal life?

What can a man give in exchange for his life?"

What has equal value to a human life?  Right now, it seems like material goods such as phones and sneakers have taken over the value of a human life.

The average lifespan does not exceed hundred years.

Within that short time which has been allotted to us, we must grip the historical realms of goodness which were entangled in history.

When we see the realm of goodness we are suppose to bond with during our time on earth, our mind and conscience must move forward to align to that standard.

Once we die and pass to the spirit world, we cannot do the work of restoring ourselves without the aid of a person who possesses a  physical body.

It may be difficult to get rid of a sin or a habit on earth and it is even 10, 000 times difficult once it is bound to you after death.

We can find the original homeland of God and serve the heavenly sovereignty and live in His nation, then we can enter God's Kingdom of heaven.

The spirit world is infinite and eternal.

How should we manage how we live in order to live in the heavenly realm?

We must put our life in order while we still have a physical body, once we enter spirit world, there is no opportunity to straighten things out.

A self-centered way of restoration does not exist, if so, then suffering would not exist.  Even a millenia from now, God's principle is the one and only way to go to heaven.

Those failing to fulfill in this way during their lifetimes, will have to make up for it in the spirit world which can take thousands of years.

Imagine if someone had a problem with women or killing people with words, they get anger management classes or go to AA meetings and still struggle.  It is thousands of times harder to rid a sin in spirit world as restoration only takes place through a human body.

Habitually doing things in life is important

Let us make a pledge today to renounce the awful habits of the satanic world and usher in God's new order centered on the sake of living for others.

It is very difficult to break a habit.  While we live in the satanic world now, you have come to enjoy self-centered habits, living individually for only yourself and your small circle of family and friends.

These habits harden like cement attaching to the body, becoming even more deeply ingrained into our lives more than any addiction such as cigarette smoking.  Continuously interrupting and hating people

Since the devil has emerged, our habits have become very deeply rooted in our lives.  Even if we want to stop a certain behavior, it takes much effort to do so.

How will we be able to eradicate these hardcore habits we've acquired?                                                                                              
No matter how deep you dig a pit, you still cannot get to the root of this serious problem.

In order to go to heaven, you need to replace all your bad habits with God-centered habits.

The standard of life on earth

My life is for the sake of God and the world. Do not think of living for yourselves. Live for God, True Parents and humanity. True love is indispensable for you in forming a four-position foundation with God, True Parents and humanity. They all desire true love. You should become people who can inherit this true universe centered on true love. We need to bear this in mind constantly.


We, therefore, should evaluate how much we have lived conformed to the heavenly standard until now.

You should become people who represent humanity, the True Parents and God.

If you are able to live this way, you will not be restricted by borderlines and will be able to move freely between the spirit world and anywhere on earth. This is closer to the ideal of Heaven on earth which God envisioned in the beginning.

If you wish to dine with a thousand friends, such an experience is possible in the world of love.

When God exercised His power as the Creator, He did centered on love.  In the spirit world, once you connect with true love, you are able to regulate and create everything.

This is our ideal hometown.  Unless you make a connection with true love, everything will be in vain.

Everything will be recorded through the physical body

If you lived two-thirds of your life in an unspeakably miserable position, will you be able to erase that?

You cannot.  These experience stay with you.  In order to restore the problems and sins of the past, we need indemnity. Indemnity or redemption is how we pay back for a wrong done. Restoration is also re-creation.

You should leave behind a life of value. 

Some people want to enjoy themselves and have a good time. They say that they will believe in Jesus when they get older so when they die they can go to heaven.

But it is more difficult to change bad behavior or habits the older one gets.  Therefore, the younger the better: it is more valuable to know the truth when you are fifteen rather than twenty.  It is even more so to grow up knowing the truth from infancy.

Is the water that is inside your bodies, pure or dirty?

After a heavy seasonal rainfall, rivers and streams become dirty, likewise you are full of all kind of impurities.

Thus, you need to go through the stirring and straining process like a filtration system.

We should not become egoistical, otherwise we build a blockage.

If our bodies accumulate excessive dirt, then even the filter can be clogged up and the water will be unable to flow completely.

Did you know that you would be inspected with a system like an X-ray machine when you go to the spirit world?

God needs people that have already passed through the filtration system.

Life on earth is so important

If you are unable to fulfill your responsibilities while on earth, you will enter a probation realm in the spirit world where you will live for some millennia.

You go to the place in spirit world which is consistent to the level which you stay for a long time.

Then your ancestors and your sons and daughters will come to you and accuse you why did you live a certain way when you could have lived better.  The time you spend in that place depends on the level you have accomplished while on earth.

This is not an easy task, this is why you have to do everything through the Principle while on earth.

A bolt requires an matching nut in order for it be fastened properly.  Only when the nut fits can it be fastened, understand?  This is the same with your life and activities on earth and the different levels in spirit world.

How important is life on this earth?

It is just a spark of a moment that comes only once when compared to eternity. This moment is insignificant, therefore, you have to go beyond your physical life and prepare for the spirit world.

You must always be able to control and conquer everything by standing in the center upholding the standard of the Principle.  Without being able to do so, you cannot achieve individual perfection.

Using our physical selves to fulfill our portion of responsibility

You should think about God and the standard of  True Parents in your daily life.

By doings so, your mind and body can stand within a harmonious, stable and fulfilled sphere of love.

Those who are able to live in such a realm of love, naturally do the same in the spirit world.  The level of the expansion of your internal life will come out on the surface in the spirit world.

God and human beings are like one cell of the body since our love is internalized.

The spirit world is the world, where you become one of those cells, where God will come inside your heart.

When you call out, "God!", He will surely answer in your heart, "What is it?"  In other words, spirit world is the world, where you live with God unlimited by the body for eternity.

Therefore, your responsibility while on earth is very important.

That is why I established the principle of the portions of responsibility for restoration. Whenever you look at yourself in the mirror in the morning, you should consider how you, as a man or woman, are going to fulfill your portion of responsibility. It is a serious matter.


All five senses are enraptured in the love which is gained after accomplishing your portion of responsibility.

All your senses operate within a substantial realm of love.

What should you do to accomplish your portion of responsibility?  What do you do to become such people?

You should be able to stand in a position to deny everything that was born of the satanic world of emotional ties with Satan.

We live in a world where the lines are blurred of what is good, godly behavior and what is satanic.  We should learn what behaviors draws us closer to God.

What happens once a person passes to the spirit world?

He becomes God's body.  Adam becomes God's body once he unites with God.  This is what Jesus meant when he said, "The Father is in me."  This does not mean that they were one being, but they had become united through Jesus becoming perfected in God's love.

First Corinthians, "Do you know that you are Father's temple," confirms that the body is the holy temple where God is suppose to dwell.  Our body is meant to be God's house, not a house for Satan's deceitful deeds and behaviors.

How can one come to resemble God?

When you are able to reach the stage where you complete your portion of responsibility, then God dwells within you, creating a oneness between you and God.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: Jesus and Spirit World This post was rewritten and derived from the book Cheong Seong   Gyeong Book Five, Chapter one, Section 4

God is the God of Love

God's love is the source of life, the source of happiness and the source of peace.

St. Paul asked who could cut off the line of God's love within Christ.  Even Christ would not be Christ or savior without God's love.  Have you ever thought of that fact?

You can come to understand this through spiritual experiences.

God's love is stronger than the sun.  

When the sun rises in the morning the buds of plants turn toward the energy of the sun

Likewise, God's love is the source of life, the source of our original good mind, and the core source of ideal elements.  That is the way it is.

Since God is the substantial essence of love and He is the central being of love, He has no beginning or an end.

The world of heart enables us to experience something special that we can be proud of thousands of years from now for having lived for one hour, and be proud for tens of thousands of years for having lived one day; this is true love.

Love originates from God

Our cells expand and feel even the energy of love.

The world where God's love exists is like this.

How can we describe God's love?

Imagine a warm spring day where white clouds float gently by in the sky.

On this day the air shimmers above the ground, insects, ants scurry about exploring the magnificent world.

Next to the warm flowing stream, catkins blossom and frogs sing new songs of spring welcoming swarms of bees and fluttering butterflies.

You would be enraptured in this atmosphere, a twilight state we experience right before drifting peacefully off to sleep.  Yet you wake in a happy mood rejoicing forever.

God's love has such delectable flavor.

When your ideal partner is given to you by God, you will feel as if you are born in a flower garden where butterflies and bees are busy flying flower to flower.

This makes you happy just imagining such an environment.

Maybe thickheaded men cannot understand this very well.

Love fills the place where God dwells. 

It is a place where the more you give, the more you desire to give even more.  The more you receive, the more desire you have to give ten million times what you have received.

Would this be an environment of heaven or hell?

You would feel such an explosive stimulation because the more you give, a stimulation that makes you feel as if all of your cells exploded.  God's love is like that.

What kind of being is God, who created the heaven and earth?

He is a being of the utmost goodness, the main root of all things and the subject partner of love.  This is why, after He created all things, God wanted to give all the precious things in creation to human beings.

If God had someone whom He could truly, love and entrust all His things to, He will want to hand him all of His most precious possessions.

What kind of taste would God like most?

If God could smell, hear and feel what would He like to smell, hear and feel?

There is only one thing God likes? That is love.

Only love can focus God's five senses and fill Him with joy.

If God was looking for a partner in love what part of creation would He choose?

Would he choose an animal a true?  We can conclude that it would surely be a human being.  This is why we say that among all things of the universe, human beings have the highest value.

Within God's love is parental love, conjugal love, brotherly love and children's love.  

Once it expands it also contains the love of the nation and world.  We say that God's love is parents' love, husband and wife's love, and children's love. This is the most wonderful thing that can be said.

What kind of love does God need?  Would God want absolute love or false love?

It is the same for us.  Just as God needs absolute love, unique love, unchanging love and eternal love, we also need the same.  We should resemble God.  God created because of love.

Because God created for the purpose of love, then God enjoys watching a man and woman loving each other.

Therefore, when God appears before the world of existence, He appears as the essence of love.  Just because God has been giving love to us, He can say, "I gave all of this because I love you, why don't you give back to me?"

Is God this kind of character?  God cannot assert Himself.

God has absolute love, but He is still anxious and troubled that He has not been able to give all the love He wants to give.

To give love completely, is God's purpose in creating people.

Thus, God's heart burns to pour out all of His love to the human world where He has as yet been unable to give His complete love freely.

The more we think of God, the more we feel God because He is such a God.

If God was the kind of god that demanded you give Him something back because He gave, we would not need Him.

 In giving us love, how much would God want to give?

God's love does not work according to a limit that says that a certain amount is enough.  It is a love that wants to give infinitely.  Even after giving everything, God will say, "I want to live in you because of you."

What brings this about?  It is love.

If love is present, God would be happy to live even as a servant.  The father will feel joy even if his beloved son was to climb onto the dining table and take a poop.

Love transcends the law.

There is nothing God does not have.

There is nothing He wants to keep back for Himself.  Even though He has everything, if there is something He wants to present and be proud of as being the most precious of all what would that be?

God needs only love, and nothing except love.  There is nothing He needs but love.

God said, "I am  love."  What does this mean?

It means to like love day and night, even while resting, working, dancing and crying. This is why He said, "I have love in it entirety and indicates that everything is contained therein.

God is the one who like love most.

Because God has such love, when we taste such love, we will not be able to let go of it even when we die.

What does it mean that God is the original being of life, goodness and truth?

These all have the same meaning and are indispensable.  The central core of life, original being of love and original being of truth is God.

God is the father and mother of humankind.  Maybe this is the first time that you have heard that father is both father and mother.

We only perceive God to be a male characteristic, but God has dual characteristics of both feminine and masculine qualities.  Since both men and women are made of God's image this makes sense.

God created human beings as His children to be the object partners of His love.

As He watches them grow, becoming brothers and sisters, husbands and wives and parents, God establishes Himself as the master of love at all stages.

Thus, human beings can be seen as more precious beings than God, who we enabled to be the master of love.

It is the same as you regarding someone you love as millions of times more valuable and precious than yourself.

God is the bone of love. 

You should know this simple fact.

In regard to love, God is the bone, and human love is like the flesh of the body.  The bone and the flesh become one to take shape. This is the principle operating.

Therefore what is love?

It works like a lubricant and a rail where upon everything turns.

Automobiles need oil to move, everything needs lubrication if it is to move.  Movement needs lubrication. Without love there is no lubrication.

Only love can be the lubricant for the highest joy.  It does not disappear because it is rooted in the eternal God.  Action brings progress.

God's love appears in a place that does not change because God's love is unchanging, therefore it is eternal.

If God's love appears to us, it appears on the foundation of an unchanging heart.

Thus, we should eat for the sake of love, sleep for the sake of love and act for the sake of that love for our entire life.

As long as we have an eternal and perfect standard for the sake of love, God's love will appear.

Otherwise, the public principles of this universe would all be in vain.

God is our Father.  Therefore, like an earthly father, day and night He worries that His children may be harmed.

He protects us if trouble comes, and He defends us if some opposing circumstances appear.

He is that kind of awesome parent.

Going in search of the essence of such a parent is the way of goodness and the way of love.  Human beings, as God's children, need to receive God's perfect love.

Until this point was made clear, God has given His love to those people and even tribes and nations that were nearer to His side.

He blessed them by adding things again and again unless they should think that these things were too small and not receive them.

Even this was not enough.

God even gave them the life of His beloved son whom they even rejected and sacrificed.

Even after He gave over His only son to be killed, God again wants to give even more of His love. This is why on the day when we return this love, all of heaven and earth will turn into an ideal Kingdom of Heaven.

The principle of love concedes: the more love you receive, the more love you give in return.

When we give God a hundred units of love, God will return to us a thousand, ten thousand units of love.

If all we have is the the love of God, we can remain in God's bosom, we can squeeze God's nose, we will have no boundaries wherever we go in the world.

We will have a free pass everywhere.

If you were to receive a kiss of love from God, you would feel a joy that triggers an explosion within you.

This is where God desires to be fulfilled.  God does not rejoice in having diamonds or other jewelry.

Where do God and human beings connect?

They connect where their lives, loves and ideals intersect.  That point would be the parent-child relationship.

From this point of view, then God is the subject partner of love, He is the subject partner of life, and the subject partner of the ideal.

In relation to His children, God ignores His authority and dignity.

However sinful or incompetent His children may be, if they are able to embrace Him with a repentful heart, He will not tell them to go away and stop.

Rather, He would embrace them, rub them and love them.  He would experience this to the point his bones melt.

God has the desire to give again and again unceasingly even after He has give for thousands of years. For this reason, we are looking for God.

If God was a cheap merchant who says after He gave, "Hey that will cost you this much and that much amount," we would not need such a God.

When you come into contact with God's love your hair will dance, and so will the cells of your body.

When you are a hundred percent intoxicated in this love, you will want to live forever rather than withdraw.

As the saying goes, "A saint's delight makes him forget the passage of time." There is indeed a way to become enraptured in such a high level of this kind of love beyond human imagination.

It has been said that if humanity had connected to God from the beginning and achieved perfection and carried His direct blood lineage, we would be so enraptured in love and oneness with God.  We would sing and dance wherever we went.  It would be likened to a musical where we are so intoxicated with love that we sing the words that come out of our mouths when we experience so much joy.

Love can fill anywhere, and reach everywhere. 

What happens when loving people embrace?

Do they just hold each other's hands and say, "I love you"?  Maybe they hug so strongly that their eyes pop out and water comes from both their mouth and their nose.

When they embrace, they don't just stand still, but turn around.

The universe will turn only because they are one in love like this.

God is the father of human beings, and human beings are God's sons and daughters.  We were created through God investing the core of His bone, the core of His flesh and the core of His bone marrow in their entirety.

Therefore, when we pull God, God cannot helped but to come along.  When God pulls human beings, they cannot help be pulled along.

Why do people like and follow God throughout the ages?

It is because God is the one who gives and gives again everything for thousands of years and yet He still feels ashamed that He has not given enough.  He says, "Now I can only give you this much, but wait a bit longer, and I will give you something that is many hundreds of times, thousands of times better."

This is because He is someone whose heart is not content with what He gave today, but He promises to give better things in the future.

Why do all humans seek eternal life, to live forever?

We seek an eternal partnership of love because we have the value of being God's object partner.  Because we will inevitably live eternally before the God of absolute love.

When you are able to stand in this place, God becomes you and you become God.

When we are connected to such a realm of God's love, what kind of feeling will we have. We will feel as if we were looking at the most beautiful intricate flower and smell all the fragrances in the garden.

At such a time, all the cells in our body will jump and dance in joy.

A man and woman must connect their horizontal love to God's vertical love.  They must join at a ninety-degree angle.

Any love that does not fit this will end up as a wandering love and be destroyed.

When you enter the love where these two are aligned, you will be able to rule the whole universe through this love centered on God.

When you are able to have a relationship with the whole universe, you will not need any knowledge, power, money or even life.

Life also lives within love.

God likes the love between Adam and Eve.  God wants to meet His sons and daughters and love them.  This is the final destination desired where human beings attend God as their Father and receive love as His sons and daughters.

For God, Adam is the core of Himself, and the core of the ideal love of the future.  So, Adam is God's external form or body when he is able to reach perfection.  On the other hand, Eve is God's wife and body.

Adam is a spiritual partner who relates to God's body and Eve is a physical partner.  When Adam and Eve become one as husband and wife and love each other they will share their love with God.  This marriage will be exceptionally holy.

God does not need knowledge, because He created knowledge.  Contrary to many non-believers, God does not need power, He is omnipotent, and omniscient.

He does not need money - so what does God need?

The only thing that God needs is love.

Can God create and receive love all by Himself when He is alone?

You may think that the almighty God can just receive love as He pleases but it is not like that.

Even though God is all  powerful, He needs a partner the most with whom He can give and take in love.  You have to understand this.

God's love is a wonderful flavor that combines everything.

It has a power as such that when you like it and grasp it, you can hold it without limit, and unfold it without limit.  Hence with love, you can fill everything and reach everything.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: Love of Husband and Wife, Flower of Universe

This post was rewritten and derived from the Book Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Three, "True Loe" Chapter Two, section 1

Now All Sin Can Leave the Earth

We are living in the age where all of fallen history is being indemnified.  This means that all of the wrongs of the past are being completely turned around.

Jesus laid a foundation for our sins to be forgiven, but we still carry the seed of sin on the earth.  Now is the time for full resurrection and eradicate sin completely from our lineage and from the earth.

In the Completed Testament Age, the world of peace that has been hoped for by millions of saints, peoples and those of faith will finally unite God and humanity together.

This can only happen because the True Parents, who have restored the fallen first parents of humankind, have arrived.

Jesus was to be the first true parent of humanity.  Since he perfected himself and became God's True Son carrying God's true blood lineage, he would have been able to connect his True Family to this lineage.  Thus, his followers would have engrafted to his family clearing away their path of sin and this would then rise to the national level.

Unfortunately, Jesus was unable to complete his mission due to the faithlessness of his disciples who ultimately abandoned him in the end.

So, we should know the value of how precious this time that we are living in to live in the same time as the True Parents and finally liquidate the sins throughout history.

So, how much love do we receive of the True Parents?

Today, many groups, atheists and communists are screaming out that God is dead or there is no God.  If there is someone who condemns this declaration, then he would love True Parents more than God does.

If you pray that you will be able to witness to such a person and bring them to meet the True Parents, then you will meet such a person and God will be joyful.

If you agree that this person is the smartest person, then absolutely you cannot be defeated by the spirits in the spirit world.

If you love True Parents and practice their teachings, then you absolutely cannot be defeated.

Satan accuses God's people endlessly.

But you can accuse the spirits that you have loved True Parents this much, but what have they done for God's dispensation or ever done for God?  Then you become the people living in the greatest abundance.

If family members were to fight over who loves the True Parents more, would God be saddened upon witnessing this?

God would call them both and establish them as a model of loving True Parents.  Then tell other people to love True Parents as these two have loved them.  This is the standard.

We should love True Parents

How far away do you think you are from this standard?

Those without tears cannot follow True Parents.

God, spirits, and all people need to pay close attention to True Parents.

We should think about this in our daily lives.  Without following True Parents' difficult path with tears, your face cannot be brightened.

You should live for the sake of others.  Even though you may try to do your best, you should always have an apologetic heart towards heaven.

We must attend True Parents

If you went through the wilderness course and crossed the Jordan River, and then fought the seven tribes of Canaan, this still would not be a victorious death.

You become an original person that is worthy of a heavenly appointment from God, only after you conquered the seven tribes and then established a new nation centered on God.

The True Parents are the ancestors of humankind.  You should therefore attend them as your own parents.

When you follow and serve them for three years or more, then the nation should serve them and the world should serve them.

This is the only way we will build a world of peace.

Since True Parents have conquered the root of sin that has caused so much suffering in human history, following their path will lead this world finally out of darkness.  This is how it should be.

This is the way to advance to global restoration.

The principle is that you serve for three years eat, and live with parents and discuss with them.  This is how the household should be.

As a family living with the parents, you should have a three-year period where you live in peace and happiness, use only good words, and share joy with one another.  This is the path each individual should take.

We should be obedient

The children should show absolute obedience to the Parents who have come in the original name of God without any trace of the fallen blood lineage.

There is no objection to that.  This is not done by force.

We are creating an environment where humanity can serve the True Parents centering on love.

The wife loves her husband and the husband loves his wife.  You become parents centered on love and create an environment where your beloved children can naturally submit to you.

Only through this natural submission without force, such as communism and false parents practice, can the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth be realized and not destroyed.

We must inherit the tradition

Upon the arrival of True Parents who brought the truth of the age through their Divine Principle teachings, the Completed Testament, we did not know what was to become of humankind.

We did not know what was to truly become of ourselves.

People have never understood history and where we were headed.

They did not know humanity's purpose and what was to happen in the future.  This is because we did not have the true parents and ancestors to reveal the truth of all of history and the coming world of peace.

Because of the True Parents, we know true history, the circumstances between God and us and we have come to know the present and future.

We can know such a tradition and inherit it.

We can win over the fallen history and the future with this tradition.

Why and from whom?

It is because you have met True Parents.  You follow what True Parents teach, and what they do.  They have cut a clear path which to follow continuing the mission left incomplete through Jesus' death.You desire what True Parents desire and inherit from them.

You inherit these things from them.

We realize that until now there have been no parents in this universe.  Those who gave birth to children before this time acted on behalf of fallen parents.  They were evil parents, using and ruining their children.

What got broken through this? 

Through the first parents of humankind falling, we lost true brothers, and sisters, brides and bridegrooms, fathers and mothers, who are meant to become perfect, have split apart.

Parents throughout history had not been able to have children of goodness, meaning they ultimately lost the family.  

The family is a representative of universal history.

Imagine a world where every family was centered upon God's ideal.

All of humanity's current problems would be immediately eradicated.  Why?  Because the Fall began through the family based on the false love of a man and a woman.

Family represents the world, the heavenly kingdom, the nation and all families.

God is trying to find its center.  People living today should be connected to this center.  In other words, the common purpose pursued by God and human beings is to be connected to the center.  There is nowhere else that the past, present and future can be bound together.

True Parents have accomplished the tasks that Adam and Eve were meant to do from the beginning, building a tradition for all of humanity to follow toward a world of heaven on earth.

Through restoring family, you have now something Satan is unable to own.

You are separating from Satan through the base of your family connected directly to God through the unfallen lineage of the Messiah.  You should have the best brothers and sisters; you should have original siblings that are not found in the evil world.

You must have brothers and sisters that are not from the satanic world.

You should establish such a tradition.  This is how it should be for you before you marry.

Two people who perfect themselves, cleansing the mistakes of the past and being reborn, you will leave a tradition to your sons and daughters that teaches them how to live.

You fight such a hard battle in the countries so you can leave behind a tradition for your descendants after you have gone.

This is a great opportunity that comes only once.  An opportunity to educate your children saying, We worked amidst this kind of hardship.

The tradition you leave behind will be your testament.

This cannot be changed. It is an eternal tradition.

Since we have been able to transcend the world, blacks, yellows and whites can be brothers and sisters.  This is in order to realize the brotherhood realm of humankind.

This is the true realm of Adam and Eve, which has no connection with the Fall.  Once humanity goes in the opposite direction of the Fall, then we will see an Utopian world come.

What philosophy can establish such a tradition to lead us to that better world?

Everything will work this way if we live for the sake of others.  

Sons and daughters who grow up in that kind of environment do not have to suffer such as their parents who walked a path of faith to leave such a tradition.

They will become descendants who will be able to automatically go straight to the heavenly nation with actual accomplishments that surpass the satanic worlds greatest feat, because they are directly connected with heaven.

The next step is for such people who live such sacrificial lives to marry one another.

Our marriages transcends the satanic boundaries.  We have the mindset that we can marry an African if told to do so, marry a white if recommended to do so and marry a yellow person if recommended to do so.

Such a tradition should be established from now on.  We should create oneness from now on.

Then you should guide your descendants and the world to live in this way from now on.  The two must become one.

When you become one with your spouse, you should not bear evil children.

To bear children of goodness, the husband and wife should be completely one.  Without becoming one, children of goodness cannot come about.  Thus you should become completely one centering on God's will.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the Book, Chapter 6 True Parents and Us from Cheon Seong Gyeong Book two