Does God Exist?

Throughout history mankind has been pondering the fundamental question of whether or not God exists. But history has developed until the present time without a definitive answer being found to that question. However, if God exists and is a personal God as well, whatever God may think and plan is the ideal which all mankind ought to seek.


Reverend Sun Myung Moon


What would be the most basic question to God?

What is the true relationship between God and mankind and whether or not God exists would be the best questions.

To answer whether God exists, we can for the time being take the philosophical approach about ourselves, or 'I'.  Throughout history, philosophers had different answers for whether "I exist and how to know if 'I' exist.

"I think, therefore I am. I cannot doubt that I doubt" is what has been asserted.

Then where did thinking originate?

Some answer that it comes from the brain while others will assert that man's spirit is the origin of his own thought.

Whatever answer we find, man has a separate origin than thought.  So we should answer the two questions separately.

Evolution has been the answer to where man originated which answer that man came about by chance and through the slow progression from apes.

This answer is expedient, but is is not actually the fundamental one.  If this is the case, then evolution has to have an origin somewhere.  Even science is becoming aware of this fact.

This process alone does not answer where did man's spirit, mind and thought within man begin if an animal does not possess these same qualities.

In order to begin to answer this question we would have to start at the beginning of creation and observe the elements of that creation.

The amoebae is the simplest organisms.  What if the amoebae has the capacity of a simple thought/  How would this simple conscious evolve into the complicated human mind?

Can we truly say that our noble spirit of humankind came from this simple organism alone without any help to reach the more complex species?

We know that the human mind has a greater capacity.  This is not a logical solution.  Through the development of man's body, there should have been something that brought the human spirit into being.

Through the explanation of evolution, we must conclude that the elements of greater and greater thought were added bit by bit to the simple consciousness of the amoebae until we reached the level of the human mind and spirit we possess in our day.

Does the amoebae, which is the beginning of the evolutionary point, contain the kind of energy necessary to propel itself forward into a higher being on its on natural course of evolving?

If not, then there must have been some extra energy that was supplied from the outside.  Then man did not come from just a natural , or automatic occurrence which is explained through the process of evolution.

Those who observe the phenomenon of the evolutionary development do not try to figure out the question and only just observe the end result and call it evolution. But when each step of the process is analyzed, there are clearly some missing factors.

When we look at the internal aspect more deeply, we know that there had to be some additional power besides just the object which is changing.  When amoebas today collect in greater numbers do they somehow produce the human spirit?

Every element, even the amoeba possesses an inner form and an external form.  These two aspects work together as a joint unit, with the internal aspect behaving as the central point.

The two major schools of philosophical thought: materialism, which considers matter as the essence of the universe, and the metaphysical idealism, which considers spirit as the essence around which everything else in the universe revolves.

The age-old philosophical question is whether consciousness precedes existence or existence precedes consciousness. 

When we observe the external aspects, it looks like existence came before conscious and developed naturally.  But when we look at the internal point-of-view, there had to be an awareness or consciousness first, from which sprang being or existence.

Two entirely different viewpoints emerge depending on how this question is answered.  Which is the true one?

Materialist philosophy is on one side and the other side has the clear acceptance of a Creator or God as the origin.  Between these two ideologies there are thousands of different theories.

When we look between these two opposing viewpoints, which is 'internal' and 'external', struggle arises.  This simple fact is important to know because once we know the true order of things, there is the end to this struggle.

We must know the truth which came first, consciousness or existence of matter itself and then which is the subject and which is the object.

But if we continue to believe that matter and spirit coexist on an equal level, there will always be struggle between ideologies and mankind.

Marxism is founded on the belief that the universe sprang from the essential element of material and that consciousness is a by-product of matter coming into existence first preceding it.

We can break down the most basic component of matter which is the atom into smaller particles.

The atom consists of the neutron and proton with the electron circling around it.  This proton occupies the center and takes on the subject position; however, within the proton there is another give and take action where further breakdown can occur.

All of these elements come together beginning with some motion.

Whichever particle created the motion becomes the subject.

The nucleus is the central point and beginning of motion within the atom.  Within the amoebae the same thing applies.  The amoebae has an internal nucleus character and an external character.

Also, each of the billions of cells within the human body has a nucleus as well.  If there is a concept of a center, then all four directions must exist.  What is the purpose served by the central point within?

The central position determines the location of the axis; it is the position of the starting point. Without it, nothing can move.

What determines the shape and characteristic of each atom is its nucleus?  The characteristic of the nucleus determines the substance of the outer body, so the central nucleus is the key determining factor for the entire being.

This is true for the development of the different forms of existence.

As atoms move about together into different types of nuclei, the outward characteristics become markedly different.   One direction consists of the vegetable world, in another is the animal world, then the mineral world.

The central nucleus character is determined first then the outward phenomenon, or the external form, is determined.

Evolution is based on the assumption that life just happened by chance or accident on its own, automatically.  But there is no way for such development to just happen automatically without an outside force.

When there are two different types of nuclei there will be two different types of external forms.

For example, no matter how hard a Chinese cabbage and a radish try, a radish cannot become a Chinese cabbage and the cabbage cannot become the radish.

It is impossible for them to come together and create a new form.  By observing the basic elements we see that they have two different nuclei with totally different characteristics.

Unless the element of the nucleus are changed, the external forms cannot be changed.  The monkey and the human resemble each other.  Also, other animals such as the dog, cat and cow have eyes and ears similar to the humans.

Does this mean that the cow becomes a man and a man becomes the cow because of the similarities?

This is impossible because the determining fact of anything in existence is its nucleus, which is the center.

Humans have the determining factor of humanity; cows have the cow-determining factor; and dogs have the dog-determining factor.  As long as these each carry different nuclei, no matter the effort spent on external unity, they can never become interchangeable.

To begin with, the monkey and human beings have different items.  The monkey has the monkey-determining factor and the man has the man determining factor.

The two have entirely different purposes, as well.  Should we conclude that the monkey automatically evolved into a man?

By looking at the internal aspects we see this does not hold true.

The nucleus is in the position to relate to all four directions.  It can exert influence in all four direction and receive energy from all four directions.  The nucleus determines the overall character of the external form.

In other words, the nucleus determines its shape and its substance.  When we view from the concept of a central nucleus, the internal and external aspects of man can be more understood.

The theory of evolution cannot explain the internal and external because it does not have the understanding of the core or center at the most basic form.

The elements might not have occurred in all four directions at the same time. Maybe they began with one direction; but ultimately they covered the entire four directions. The four directions of east, west, north and south have different characteristics from each other.

Every essential element of matter has a different origination point. 

Between the nucleus and the body, the nucleus comes first in the subject position and it determines the nature of the objective body.  Even though it is invisible, the internal is first.

Whoever takes the initiative is the subject.

For instance, in order for you to sit in your chair you had to have the initiative to get up in the morning and then sit down where you are now.  This motivation for an action comes from within the nucleus, which is the center point.

You first had to determine within your thinking to get up and get ready.  Your body, which is material, did not push your mind to come to where you are right now from your bed.

Since that core-nucleus exists prior to objective embodiment(external), the internal occurs before the external. 

This core makes the external embodiment, which we can observe, possible.

This is not the other way around.  This same principle can be applied everywhere.  So, the internal reality and the internal character comes first and then is the subject position.

The theory of evolution falls apart simply because it does not explain how one nucleus change itself into another nucleus containing totally different elements.

If a scientist tried to command the several elements with differing nuclei to come together, no matter how hard he tries to manipulate the union if there is no mutual interaction or possibility for reciprocal relationship, those nuclei can never come together.

By knowing the internal aspects and that the nuclei determines the external form how can we just accept the information that the universe developed through natural occurrences without planning?

There must be some external source of power, will and initiative.  Some universal nucleus-idea which is the governing factor of the entire universe must have had a hand in the manipulation of several different aspects of the creation.

Each of us has a nucleus that went through the process of gathering up the substance that makes us who we are.  Our nucleus has its own characteristic.

The central nucleus determines liking or disliking, willing and not willing.  Therefore, each nucleus is different from others; it is unique.

Our nucleus has already determined our size and character.  We cannot go beyond our own characteristic nucleus, nor can he become anything less than the nucleus requires.

Exactly what the nucleus was, we became. 

Also, nothing can be added to it because it would be foreign.  No matter how much other elements try to enter that character, it will not be accepted unless the nucleus ordered certain substances.

We can view all men as 'cells' for some universal nucleus character.  We are a part of something that is bigger than ourselves.

The central characteristic of man is heart and this central characteristic is common to all. 

We cannot relate equally with the animal world because we are human beings and they are animals.

Man is man.  We are each a part of the human family as one cohesive group.  We have a common character within each of us.  We strive to become better and pursue goodness.

Because of this, we always reach out for new horizons, and greater and higher universal character.

In other words, we want something better and some way to progress.  This is why the whole of humanity continually heads toward betterment because such character exists within the common human nucleus.

Since we all have a basic common search to do good and become better, there must be something bigger than our own character within this universal character.  We recognize as a collective group that we are objects to some greater subject.

Because there is a common human search for goodness and betterment, there is something bigger than our own character within the universal character.

As a collective group we recognize that there is some greater nucleus; we recognize ourselves as objects to that greater subject. The human consciousness involves this collective effort to reach out to that universal consciousness.

Because of our human consciousness, we can reach out to that greater consciousness and we can communicate with it.

In that way, universal consciousness becomes subject and we become the object or substance of that universal consciousness. We are glad to become the objective consciousness of that nucleus conscious.
We would want to communicate and align ourselves with that central consciousness.  That consciousness has many several different names throughout religion, but it would be the true originator of all existence.

We call this originator of such consciousness and human beings, God.

This central consciousness would be the center of all existence.  Man stands uniquely as the microcosm of the macro-cosmic universe.


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This post was rewritten in conversational form and derived from the speech God and Us.

What Is Cause of Human Disunity w/God? Part 1

Somewhere in history, man and God separated and man was bequeath and riddled with sin that did not originate from God.  We know this occurred with the fall of the first humans endowed with God's spirit.  But how did this happen?  Can one pinpoint the true reason for this separation other than just saying disobedience and the eating of a fruit?

Human beings were born as children of the heart, but they had to grow up. In order to mature and be able to govern the universe, they had to turn around God. Thus, God has to come down to them, become one with the axis and turn the universe.

According to the Principle, the commandment, "Do not eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil," actually meant, "Wait until you become mature." That is to say, they had to wait until the central point was set, and until they were able to settle in that central point.

What comes first: love or self-awareness?

Love comes first. If that had actually happened, we would have been successful in everything. If that occurred, there would have been no walls or ravines on the path of life. Our life would have meshed with the gears of the heavenly principle and rotated smoothly. The great heavenly principle would have made this possible.

However the woman abandoned this principle and started out from self-awareness. According to the Bible what did she want to eat? When she looked at the fruit it was good for food and it was said to make her eyes open; at that moment Eve realized her ego.

This became the problem. Please understand that once you become aware of your own "self" and begin to assert yourself, you are already in the realm apt to be invaded by the cunning Satan, by your fallen nature! You must understand this clearly. (171-109, 1987.12.13)


Covering Their Sexual Parts Indicates What Kind of Sin

Into what did Satan drive his roots?

Into the body. God created Adam and Eve, but they fell when they were underage. God commanded them not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but it was not a commandment concerning a literal fruit.

If they had plucked the fruit with their hands and eaten it with t heir mouths, then they would have hidden their hands and covered their mouths. So why did they cover their sexual parts?

This is a deadly trap, the cause of the destruction of human culture. The word "love" is the most sacred word, but why have words related to love become obscene in spite of this? Why do we consider them foul words? It is because the misuse of love destroyed the great Principle of heaven and earth.

What was it about the Fall that God could do nothing about it; what was it that made Him so powerless? Why is the Fall so hard to overcome? What is this about a fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? If Adam and Eve ate a fruit, then why did they cover their sexual parts?

They defiled their bloodline.  Just as kings and queen are required to come from the direct blood lineage of 'royal blood', God's children were to inherit His bloodline, His seed.  The fact that they defiled their blood means that they defiled their life.

The fact that they defiled the life means that they defiled love. Human beings, who were supposed to become the nervous system within the great principle of heaven and earth, fell while in their youth.

Who violated the woman?

The archangel, the servant, violated God's daughter, Eve, who in the future was supposed to become God's queen and His external incarnation. The lineage was changed. You may be hearing this for the first time.

What is the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Do you know what it is? It refers to the sexual part of the woman. In Korean, don't people say, "I picked and ate that woman" meaning, "I seduced her"?

The Korean language is curious. Men use this word, "I am going to pick and eat that woman." Even men who do not know the Bible say things like that. this tells the truth to a person's heart. Everything should be reported truthfully to our conscience. In the Last Days, people have to tell the truth.

Could the original sin appear through eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Even if a father ate the fruit and thus committed a sin, what kind of fruit was it that made thousands of generations of his descendants into sinners?

It was a relationship that involved lineage. Once planted in the lineage, the root of sin continues eternally by the law of inheritance. This can only be possible through a relationship of love. Improper love is the cause of the Fall.

If human beings fell by eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil as Christianity teaches, then restoration could be completed in one day. In this case God could just create something tastier and better than this fruit and feed it to human beings and this would become the condition of indemnification, would it not? Theoretically speaking, that would be correct. (38-164, 1971.1.3)

Where were Adam and Even supposed to meet each other?

They were to meet on a vertical line. They were supposed to become one in love. What is love adjusted to? It is adjusted to the center. This center is the sexual organs of a man and a woman. This is where love is adjusted to. The genitals of a man and a woman are so precious. Therefore, men and women must treat them with respect like they do God throughout their lives. This organ is the most holy place.

Why did Adam and Eve cover their sexual parts after the Fall? Christianity does not know. What? Did Adam and Eve eat a fruit? Why would God expel His beloved son and daughter? How serious the problem must have been that God had to expel them! (197-261, 1990.1.19)

Eve became the mother of two worlds. She came to stand in a midway position in between good and evil. Then, who must decide whether to follow the direction of good or evil? A person himself or herself must decide. In order to do so, one must crush evil and Satan and cling to God. One must cling to God with a power several times stronger than the power he or she uses to strike Satan. In order to strike evil you must exert all your strength. At the same time, you must cling to God with even greater force.

What was the Fall? In Christianity they say it was eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Thus, they think that this was a fruit of an actual tree. However, a fruit cannot have the same value as a human being. Among all creatures, plants were originally created to be under human beings command. God did not create plants possessing elements that are able to cause the Fall of beings superior to them.

In established churches, they say that eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is the Fall. Such an interpretation is materialistic. If you say that a spiritual entity fell because a person ate something material, then how is it different from communist theory, which claims that spirit arises from matter?

Did the human spirit fall because someone ate something material on earth?

Can a spiritual being fall because a person cats something physical? If you say that the physical was degraded because of the spirit, that is understandable, but saying that a spiritual being fell because of matter does not make sense. It is materialism that states that the spirit is derived from matter.

The bible is full of parables, messages left for those with the ears to hear the spirit of truth.  The tree was a symbol, not a physical tree or fruit.


Symbol For the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil

The fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is the crossroads of life and death
It is written in the Bible that God told Adam and Eve that they could freely eat the fruit of all the trees in the Garden of Eden, but as for fruit of the tree of life and the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that were in the center of the Garden, they were told not to even look at them or touch them. What does that mean?

What do all trees signify? Adam and Eve were brother and sister. so they could hold each other's hands, kiss each other, and do things like that, they could freely eat the fruit of all trees. However God obligated them not to touch the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the fruit of the tree of life, that is, the male and female sexual organs. That is what He warned them about.

Do you know what the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was that caused the Fall of the first human ancestors?

The fruit signifies the sexual organs of the man and the woman. If you use these organs well, your nation will prosper, but if you misuse them, it will perish.

This is what this fruit is. It is true even for a king; if he uses this organ properly his nation will prosper, but if he errs in using it his nation will be destroyed. Because of this, families and societies are breaking down; because of this everything is divided into hell and heaven. The fruit of evil has ripened where the fruit of goodness should have been.

Isn't that the fruit of good and evil? Does everyone have the fruit of good and evil, or not? The sexual organs of a man and a woman are the fruit of good and evil. They are the head and mouth of a viper. Why did Jesus call Satan a viper? Why did he say Satan was a snake? This is the head of a snake. You must understand this. It is the head of a viper! Women and men are all after this, are they not? Is it that not so for both women and men? 

What is the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? If you misuse love, you inherit the eternal fruit of evil. If you love righteously, you inherit the eternal fruit of goodness. Is this fruit of good and evil an actual fruit? People who claim that the fruit is an actual fruit are crazy! This fruit refers to the male and female sexual organs.

Since the woman had a greater predisposition to fall than the man, God gave the warning, "Do not eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil!" If a woman meets a good person, her sexual organs bear a good fruit, but if she meets an evil man, they bear an evil fruit. The fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil refers to the female sexual organs. Does such a situation apply to men? No, it does not.

When God gave the warning to Adam and Eve not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, who did He actually give it to? He did not give it to Adam. In his adolescence, Adam was busy playing around, he came back home tired and soon went to sleep. The woman however would be sitting down and saying things like, "The sunlight is so warm! Oh, look! The flowers are blooming! The water is so clean and the air is so fresh!" Didn't she also say something like, I want to be as beautiful as a flower?" So in adolescent years women develop faster than men.

The fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil refers to the sexual organs.

These organs can bear either good or evil fruit. If a woman mixes with a bad man, she will receive a bad seed from him. But if she gets together with a good man, she will receive a good seed. Isn't that right? So the fruit refers to the female sexual organs. Eve fell and thus received the blood of the devil. The devil is an archangel. This archangel was the representative of the servants.

What would God give a warning about? After God created the ideal Adam and Eve, what conditions could there be that He had to warn them about? What do mothers and fathers warn their young sons and daughters about? What should young people be cautious of when they go out?

God followed the same reasoning. What should God be careful about? God does not need money. He does not need knowledge. He does not need power. He can always possess these things freely. However, even God cannot do as He pleases with love.

It is written the Bible, "When you eat of it (of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil), your eyes will be opened." (Gen. 3:5) What do the words "eyes will be opened" mean?

 For a man it means to know a woman, and for a woman it means to know a man; it means nothing else than the knowledge of the opposite sex. if you are born as a man and do not marry, you are foolish. What is the highest ideal? The summit of the highest ideal a man must reach is a woman. But what kind of woman? It is a woman who is a perfect match for his heart, a match for him when he is young, a match for him when he is old, a woman who matches him forever. Isn't that right?

When God created human beings, which part of them did He make most laboriously? Was it the eyes, the mouth, the nose or the hands? People do not even think about it. It was the stronghold of love. The term "stronghold of love" refers to the sexual parts of man and woman. These parts are the main palace of love. This is where man and woman learn about each other's love, and without this place they will not understand love. The owner of love can not appear.

Where is the royal palace of love, life and lineage? It is that important organ of the man and woman. It was the holy place at the time of God's creation. I am telling you it was the holy place. If it is invaded, everything is destroyed.

Three precious things are connected to this place. Love, life and lineage are connected to this place, are they not? The sexual organs are the origin of these three important elements.

From the viewpoint of God's original ideal of creation, the sexual organs are the most precious and holy place. This is the holy place, the holy of holies! The most holy place is not a place that just anyone can enter. No one except for the high priest, except for the person in charge, can open its door. The words "a fountain sealed" in the Song of Solomon in the Bible refer to this.

Sexual organs are so precious for they are the royal palace of life, love and lineage. But if you treat them like libertines, as if they were bull's balls, how are you going to pay the price of that sin? Isn't this a serious problem? This is a holy place. It is the most holy place, which God created as the most precious organ.

 What happens when it is defiled?

In Moses course, were not those who defiled the Ark of the Covenant killed on the spot? This is the same. Defiling the stronghold of love, which is the same as the most holy place, cannot be forgiven. Man and woman embrace each other. Loving each other is a cosmic act. It is the touchstone for forming the realm of oneness of God and humankind. In this moment man and woman are granted the relationship that connects the finite to the infinite.

When holy men and holy women join at the sexual organs through holy love, holy life and holy lineage and give birth to children, these children will go directly to the heavenly kingdom. They will not need religion or moral training.

When mind and body form a right angle, when love and all other aspects grow without any damage, so that the internal and external aspects of his or her personality are perfected, then the person can understand everything without being taught. I am like that.

What is the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Until now it was a secret. No one could talk about it. It was the fault of our ancestors. Since the mistake was committed by our ancestors, this truth could not he made publicly known until the true ancestors came. Neither God nor Satan could reveal it.

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This text is based on the book: Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Eight, Chapter 2.