5 Myths About Sex Part II

We discussed the two myths of sex in the previous post, part 1 to the 5 Myths About Sex and debunked these wrongful ideas that can cause many immature and young people to indulge in the act with the wrong people and in situations and relationships which are not secure.

Now we continue the talk with the next three myths:


3. Is Sex a Natural Expression of Love?


The third flawed premise of sex is: Sex is a natural expression of love.
It is an instinct for those who indulge in romantic-based love to want to express this love through sex, even in no marital relations.

But, it is natural for true love to want the best for the one a person loves and the relationship.  In true love, one will avoid doing anything that will jeopardize either of these in any way, including refraining from delving into harmful activity.

People who love one another will sacrifice themselves to this end. 

The most authentic expression of love is to wait to pledge pleasurable sex and bonding which can have drawbacks only within the commitment of marriage.

When a man or woman anticipates opening such a precious gift from the one they love, they will be repelled by the idea of receiving something used by a prior lover.

It is not too late for those who have given away their virginity, they can recommit to their current or future loved one through a pledge of celibacy.

Would any woman really be so proud to accept an engagement ring that had been on the finger of five other girlfriends before her?

Most men would not take delight in having photos of their wife’s ex-husband laying around the house.

These expressions are an innate desire for exclusivity.

If people think that sex is a natural expression of love, then they should also believe that they should reserve this gift for one beloved who is special enough to be chosen as a lifetime mate.

Sex within Marriage Honors the Intrinsic Moral Aspects of Sexuality

4. Does Sex Promote Maturity?

The fourth falsehood is: Having sex only in marriage restricts growth and creates sexual inhibitions.

The sexual revolution brought on in the 60s made the idea that parents lived a stifling life confined within the walls of marriage and it was time to break through.

Many people can name a range of sexual experience and many partner as evidence that they have grown and  “exploring the farthest reaches of love and the self.”


Yet lifelong monogamy demands self-honesty and maturity than having an open relationship.  Yet, deeper adventures in loving will be experienced in a secure relationship.

When one invests in another person in such a way where they replenish and sustain a lasting love, is precisely the context that stretches every faculty and promotes the greatest personal growth.

It is too convenient for people to just run to a new partner instead of dealing with the deeper issues that real and enduring intimacy demands.

“It is easy to associate multiple sexual partners with personal change,” writes human potential philosopher George Leonard, but it is “far more likely to be associated with the avoidance of change.”


This may sound like a paradox, but one who continuously run from one relationship to the next before healing what is broken in the one before, will find they repeat the same patterns they experienced in the last relationship they tried to escape.

Physical intimacy within the love and commitment of marriage maintains the fundamental integrity of the body as an expression of the mind. It keeps the outer expression congruent with the deepest heart and conscience.

The body has its own symbolic language: a fist means hostility; a smile signifies good will. 

A misuse of the body’s language for example would be to use a smile to concel malice which would be deceptive.

In this same vein, sex between a couple represent the total union of their hearts, minds and lives.

Therefore, if sex is merely just to experience pleasure or an expression of warm feelings, then this would be considered a false message.

This kind of deceit goes against the moral maturity in a healthy relationship.

Finally, the issue of inhibitions is ironic.

Those who are involved in non-marital sex constantly speak of having performance anxiety, guilt, feeling cheap, fear of being compared to other partners, fear of unwanted pregnancy,  diseases and other experiences that complicate their sexual experience.

On the other hand, research shows that highly religious wives report the greatest number of orgasms.  This is a clear sign of freedom from neurotic inhibitions and guilt found in sex within an unsecure relationship.

Evidence shows that those who were virgins before getting married, had the greatest sexual satisfaction.

These married women have security within their marriage, trust and time to accommodate to their partners.

Those who are religious and waiting for sex within the bonds of marriage, find great meaning and freedom from the guilt that their faith provides.


5. Is Sex Liberating?


The fifth myth is: Having sex only within marriage oppresses women.


Some claim that ideals of purity and fidelity is only a piece of paper that protects men’s property rights over their women.

There is some truth to this exaggeration.  The thought that traditional morality is linked to male exploitation of women can be seen in history.

There has been a double standard for men and sex; chastity has almost universally been enforced for females but not for males.

Even though society says that women should stay pure, boys and men are free to indulge in free sex at the expense of girls and women.

Women pay the price fore any illicit liaisons through having a stigma attached to them or punishments such as having to endure pregnancies without the father.

Even though society view women differently in the context of sex, it is foolish to not follow the protective moral code for sexual ‘freedoms'.  It would be better just to clear this injustice to women.

It is unsafe for women to claim the ‘right’ to enjoy casual sex just to join the sexual ‘freedoms’ of men who exploit their partners and using sex for domination.

The timeless gold standard of sexual ethics—reserving sexual intimacy only for the spouse—recognizes the moral implications of sex and the deeper need for enduring love.

Women choose casual sex to stay equal to the wrongful lower standard for both genders than to succumb to the double standard placed upon women.

This means that women inherit men’s weakness, which separates the body from the true heart, and sex from responsibility and true love.

Despite popular belief, permissive sexual standards has not truly been liberating to women.

Females are now expected to want many sexual partners and males are expected to treat them as such.  Thus, women have denied their natural instinct of self-protection: Women are the ones who pay the heavy burden of the consequences of having sex outside a secure relationship.

Unwanted babies, and abortions and other liabilities plague only the women.  Even with the responsibility of contraception is placed mainly with the female.

Despite women being sexually independent and self-sufficient, they are still expected to still be feminine, soft, yielding and undemanding at the same time.

Because of this, women have to suppress their inclinations to be monogamous.  Research shows that even women who have sex outside of marriage, they desire less partners than their male counterparts.

It is almost universally the women partners who end up in the awkward position of trying to negotiate commitment in a sex-only relationship.

What is worse, that women play the part of wives by living together with a man.  They offer domestic services and sex without any emotional and material security which marriage provides.

Many women sadly play house with many partners and find out too late that time causes them to miss the experience of real marriage and motherhood.

After a certain age, finding a committed partnership becomes a more elusive goal for women while male peers often find younger, attractive women who are ready to marry them.

In addition, after age 28 or so, female fertility begins to decline rapidly.31 This is not the case for men.

In conclusion, these are the top myths about sex outside of a committed relationship is not freeing which have degraded not only many marriages, but also has brought society to a lower standard of love.

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Return for Tomorrow’s Post: Sex Before Marriage Disrupts Growth of Heart, Character

This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook ‘Educating for True Love’ written by a team of writers explaining the philosophy of Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

Seven Principles for Loving Relationships Part II

We continue part two of the seven principles for loving relationships:

6. Investing Towards Oneness

In order to realize love, we need to trust in the potential for unity between complementary partners. 

Everything that is complementary to one another first begin as separate beings in the world, but are drawn into oneness.

Despite the complementary nature of men and women, they do not easily get along. Sometimes they can seem like adversaries.

Any group of men or women's conversation at one point turn toward the complaints about the opposite gender.

Men may say that 'women talk too much,' women may say that 'men are so insensitive'. This is the long history of misunderstanding that happens between the sexes. There is also mistrust, abuse, and exploitation.

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

Through a husband and wife embracing one another and through having many experiences with their children throughout the years, a man and woman can come to understand and appreciate the opposite sex.

The husbands and sons represent masculinity in all phases of development as also a man embraces all femininity trough his love for his wife and daughters.

Therefore, married life provides a fascinating, ongoing adventure of bonding of masculinity and femininity.

Through marriage, men and women become better mirrors 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.

A Hindu scripture speaks of the original Self or Creator as splitting in two to make man and woman. Thus making each 'like half of a split pea'. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.4.3

A couple that is an example of this is a full mirror of the Godhead.

Reverend Moon shows the married couple as a smallest unit of humanity. This is in the sense of fulfilling the purpose of human creation as God's complete reflection and love partner.

This is why the love between man and woman can be uniquely edifying.

7. Unity Around a Higher Purpose

People who unify based on a higher purpose, this is a basic context for true love. Every being in creation tends toward unity, based upon shared purposes.

Unity is the beginning point of love, the point where love can come to abide . . . . When both come closer and closer they can meet at one point between them. In other words, by both of them denying themselves for a greater purpose, they can unite with each other. That is the standard of true love.

—Sun Myung Moon

American President Richard Nixon spoke about how one extraordinary moment in time united people of all lands when Neil Armstrong, landed successfully on the surface of the moon:

“For one priceless moment, in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one. One in their pride in what you have done. One in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth.”

People united in celebration of what he had done and all were passengers in a spaceship alone in black, cold space. This moment was profoundly moving and gratifying where all inhabitants of the earth united in oneness.

Unity, the sense of belonging to something greater than ourselves, is something we deeply desire.

To bring unity, it also helps to keep problems that are small and tensions in perspective.

“I wanted as little to do with my supervisor as possible,” recallsa medical technician. “But when I saw how hard she worked to throw a Christmas party for the kids in the critical care ward, I just had to give up my grudge and help her.”

When we give ourselves to the greater good, it feeds us self-respect. This supports our ability to love and invest further in the relationship.

Therefore, when people unify centered upon a greater purpose, this is the best context for lasting love

We will discuss more on this principle in the next post..

Return for Tomorrow's Post: Centering on Higher Purpose for Unity

This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook, Educating for True Love, written by a team of writers to explain Reverend Sun Myung Moon's philosophy.

A Relationship With God is Fundamental for Life

Throughout history, man has tried to search for the true meaning of everlasting happiness and human behavior through philosophy and philosophers.

This quest leads them to ask the basic question of God's very existence.  Isn't this where every philosophical battle eventually ends up, to whether a being who created this world exists? 

We still have not reached a satisfactory conclusion which every philosopher and scientist can agree upon.  Even if they were to all take a vote and vote that He exist, would he exist from that moment on? 

What if they all voted that God did not exist?

Would such a being come into existence upon human realization that He exists or vice versa?

God does not fit into human logic too well.  Perhaps the last time you tried to explain or prove such an existence showed you how limited words or examples can be to your case.

How about your mind?  Are you able to show it and explain to someone.  If you were able to 100% understand you mind then you would have the capacity to recreate it from scratch from such knowledge.  Because you cannot know your mind totally, this shows the greatness of your mind. 


"Human beings have a mysterious aspect, and human logic can never perceive the greatness of God or human existence."


The same is for the explanation of God.  If you could explain His existence through logic then God would be small enough to fit into human logic. this would mean that humanity would be able to create God and know all about Him.

People of religion already know that there is a God, that He exists from beginning to end, and He exists throughout eternity.  He created all things and He occupies the central position.

We should clearly understand our relationship to God.

Humanity has tried several approaches to bring us closer to an understanding of this relationship, but this question remains unsettled.

Our relationship to God is the fundamental block to our existence.  A true, living relationship to God is fundamental to life that we should clarify this question.

Several religions have to come to the same principle which is common to all religions to clear up the confusion of what our relationship with God should be?

Is it like a friend, daughter/son or should we view God as an equal?  What is our true relationship with Him?

God wants us to understand this relationship to the ultimate sense - He definitely needs us human beings...why else would He create us?  Therefore, He will do everything possible to develop this relationship.


What is the most precious thing in your life?  Did you answer money or power?


When we look at this question deply, other thoughts emerge.  We conclude that the most precious thing is love - what we value most is tied to the element of love.

Second to love is life itself which is most precious.  We value these two things above all else.

If we have love and life, we need one thing further-an ideal.

Love, life an ideals are the most precious and profound in vlue and make our live woth living.

We all in some way wish fo eternal life.  Therefore, we naturally feel that we want our love and ideals to also be foreve, unchanging and unique.

We have seen writers who write about the beauty of eternal love.

Has there been a writer in history that has glorified love that changes day and night or ends forever?

There are many religions in the world which testify to the life beyond this one that we live on earth and testify to our desires for eternity.

The words 'love' and 'ideals' are empty and do not have meaning when they are isolated.  Love can only exist when there is someone to love and someone to be loved by.

Also, an ideal needs to be shared with someone. 

We are always in a position to be loved by someone in the subject position.  Things that are supremely important in human life can only come about through relationships.

Many think that humans are the cause of the universe, but how can we be the cause if we did not create ouselves?  Therefore, a subject or creator must xist.  This subject or cause is the essential reality.

Whatever name you choose for the cause does not matter; we should be certain of the cause as we are of our own existence.

We call the cause "God".  So, let's put our question to God:

God, what is the most precious thing in existence to you God?

 God will answer, "Love, life, and my ideal are the most precious things to me."

Think about this.  Does God need money?  Everything in creation belongs to God anyway.  He does not need money. He is already the Source of all power and knowledge.  God is all of these things, therefore, these two also He does not need. 

Instead, God wants to share and have give and take with someone ina reciprocal relationship.

Even though God is almighty, He cannot have love, life and ideal when He is alone.  This is why He created man and woman.

 

All human traits originate in God.

This is the meaning in the Bible where it states that humans are created in the image of God.

We reflect the characteristics of God like a mirror.  God is the Origin, therefore, our lvoe comes from the love of God.  Our life comes from the life of God, and so do our ideals.

The very dream that you wish to accomplish all your life comes from God.

God is the Subject of love, the Subject of life, and the Subject of ideals. We are the objects of love, the objects of life, and the objects of ideals.

Therefore, since God is an absolute being, we are also absolute.  Since God is eternal, His objects, men and women, are also created for eternity.  Otherwise, we would not reflect he nature of the eternal God.

If God is love, life and ideals, then He would be a God of defeat if He did not create a being with the same qualities.

 

 

God is the Subject to man and woman, and we are the objects to God.

Even though God is absolute, man and woman seem to reflect another type of being that is far from God.

When we as objects are not perfect as our Creator, then we cannot reflect fully the love, life and ideal of God.  God and humans are one.  Humans is incarnate of God. Man and woman are meant to be the visible form of God and God is the invisible form of man and woman.

Because we are the reflection and object of God whom He cannot feel love without us, this gives us as much importance and value as God Himself.

If man had followed God completely, there would be no question of His existence - HGe would have been a living reality to us.

In our present fallen, sinful ways, we should be very careful of our words and actions.  On the other hand, if humanity had obtained perfection, we would automatically reflect the universal, loving mind that is God.

There would be no religion to teach us about how to behave like God, or arguments of His existence.

One that is perfect would not be able to deny God.

If Adam and Eve had followed God and become mature in their love instead of following Lucifer's advice to give into their love in their immaturity they would have become true parents to Cain and Abel.  The good family tradition they envoked would have remained generation after generation.

Our relationship with God would not be a question - it would have been of perfect oneness; you would not be able to separate yourself from your own godly mind.  This would have been human perfection.

Such people who did not fall away from God would have become the nucleus of the universe.

Adam and Eve's perfect home life and children would have expanded to a heavenly society, nation and world.

Who would have been the center of this perfect universe or world of peace?

Instead of creating a hell on earth where "Satan was the ruler of this world", God and Adam and Eve would have formed the central axis of the universe.

Why did God need a perfect relationship with Adam and Eve?

First of all, God could only fulfill His ideal of true love through Adam and Eve.

Secondly, God who does not have a physical body would have been visible through working through men and women.

In other words, Adam and Eve were to be the phsyical manifestation of God through their perfected relationship with Him.  Thus, God could have a relationship with the visible, phsycial world through them.

What is God's reason for creating Adam and Eve?

Once Adam and Eve wre perfected on earth in a relationship of oneness of God, their spirit selves after passing to the next world would be like the body of God.  God would have been the mind of Adam and Eve and they would have been the spirit body of God.  Then God and people in the spirit world would have been eternally inseparable, one body.

Inside them God would dwell in their minds - God Himself would be the mind of Adam and Eve.

Unfortunately, due to our relationship with Lucifer's will and love, we have an inseparable relationship between the two. 

We come to speak about death and dying, but there is no such thing in the context of God's original world.  Instead of dying, we would have just passed to a new realm after giving up the physical body.  Your body would be the spirit and God would be the center of that body.

After we followed the will of Satan through our first human ancestors, all of God's ideals for a world of love and peace was separated from humanity until His first true son on earth fulfilled the responsibility to change the blood lineage to God's.


This post was rewritten and derived from the text of the writings of Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

What Does an Ideal Family Look Like?

Family is where all the efforts are brought to fruition and all of God's work is fulfilled.

 

God's ideal was purposed to manifest beginning in the family and happiness of family.  

The family is good because it is the base for all free activities based on parental love.

An ideal family is God-centered with eternal parental love; eternal conjugal love and eternal fililal love can be found.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We all must have a family base.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is composed of parents, children and their possessions.  

 

What being is able to be the manifestation of the spiritual, physical history of the Old, New and Completed Testament Ages?

Creation, the children and the parents are required in order to form a family.

This ideal does not lie in any other philosophy.

The beginning as well as the ending is in the family.

Who has been able to solve the problem of obtaining eternal happiness?

This is why it has been sought after more than ever.  Unificationism has been recognized because happiness is only attained through a systematized, universalized form taught through the teachings of the Messiah.

If everyone in the world without exception were to bow their heads and admit to the ideology of Unificationism, then unity would automatically be achieved.

When you look carefully at the sisty-six books in the Bible, you will see that it is an expression of the hope for ideal families.  Isn't that what the Bible teachings are mostly formed from, the family?

Every story was connected to a person within the context of their family.

Jesus and his mother and father, Job losing his family, Tamar, Sarah and on and on.

What do men desire?  To be married to an ideal wife.

If you find a man who says that they do not want an ideal wife, then he also cannot claim to be a man.

It is quite obvious that the desire of women since they are born is to meet ideal husbands.  No matter how great a woman is in the world, no matter whether she is a college graduate or holds a doctorate, her greatest desire would be likewise -  to meet an ideal man.

Her desire is to meet an ideal man whom she can love and can have beloved sons and daughters.  This is the root of happiness.  Since we have this doctrine deeply rooted in such a family, no one can be removed from it.

Where will the Kingdom of Heaven be first established?

'The Way of the True family' is the best term for our belief.

We advocate cosmos-centered ideology.

I need to provide a detailed explanation in order to clarify the meaning of the word "cosmos". You can view the family as a miniature nation which is grounded within a small social unit.

The family is a miniature nation, world and cosmos.


Therefore, if you abandon the family, you will not be able to do anything.  We are great in that we teach people these things about the family which were not known before.  The family is the everlasting base.  This fact cannot be changed by the father or elder brother, by any system in the world that tries to change this principle.

The most important time in anyone's life is the moment of birth, marriage and death.

We each should be born well.  In other words as we say, we should be born through the bond of heart.  Marriage, the next important moment in marriage.   We marry in order to live a full life.

We marry in order to achieve the four-position relationship of God, parents, Spouse, children.

When we will see such public laws of the universe governed established on earth, then God's will and humanity's will for world peace will be fulfilled.  The family is where we can find structure and contents required by these universal laws.

We can see that the world develps resembling the family structure.  Even if the world is in total choas, this will always remain true.

Therefore, the ideal world we envision for the future must be established based on the trinty of the family.

Since the four position relationship needs to be completed by every human being, everyone should marry and form a family.

'We must take after God.  A society that is based on human beings must take after them centering on God.

I founded the Unification Church in order to make this come true. The whole world should already have developed to such a state, but it is not the case yet. However, through such principles, the world can ultimately come to resemble human beings centered on God. 


The ideal world of peace is where the whole world is molded in the image of an ideal person.This world will transcend national and racial boundaries.\\\

The family is the horizontal foundation that is in the same form of a miniature world.

Then from the family stems the nation and the world. What is the family?  It is the objective standard to the absolute center.

What are the individuals?  They are the stepping stones which the absolute center resides.  When you view the ideal world in this way, an individual cannot be bestowed as the absolute authority to judge this world.

This authority should be bestowed on a true family. This is why you have seen a similiar example of kingdoms being ran by families.

Then knowing this, what would be the first place Satan would attack in humanity?

It would be the place of the family.

This is why families that fail to unite into one break up.  The breakdown between father and son, husband and wife, the whole family is the result of disunity.  If a person created a family and watched it break up later, he will be scarred with a wound that could not be healed for eternity.  There is no amount of consolation that would do this person any good.

We must become parents, husband, wives and siblings that are united within the family which God has yearned for.

Why is the family good?

We yearn for the family because it provides an environment where we can share love with one another freely.  This is the reason why people miss their home and their hometown because the parents and sibling live there.

When the father is pleased, the whole family is pleased.

When the child is pleased within the family, then the whole family is pleased.

The family is where the whole universe can experience joy simultaneously.

We start by gaining control of our body and mind and become a perfected individual.

Then the husband and wife need to become one in order to form a perfected family.

When the mother and father become as one, that family can develop further. 

When the children and the parents in a family become one, that family will flourish on a higher level.

What will happen if families unite with their relatives?

Many movies are made about the problems that come with in-laws, extended family are relatives. what would happen if we naturally just were able to get along with them?

Then a new spirit among the people will emerge.

When they seek to go to an even higher level, they will bring unity of the entire nation.  They will be remembered as a clan of loyal patriots.  A family of God's Kingdom does not come about through force, rather it happens naturally where there is joy.

Even when loving, one should not strive to merely receive love, because ideal love is only established when there is giving and receiving between the two.

A happy family is one where the husband comes home after work and discusses everything that happened to him during the work day with his wife and plans new areas of pioneer with her.  A happy family is one that strives continuously to discover new things.

When the parents set such an example in the family, the children will come to contribute as well.  They will gladly align themselves to make such a family.

The true family is the place where a husband sacrifices for and loves his wife as he loves his mother. On the same token, the wife sacrifices for and loves her husband as her father.

Also, they should love each other as younger sister and older brother respectively.

Heaven is where ideal families live in a world where husbands and wives love and respect each other as they would God.

such a tradition should be established on earth.

The mother and father cannot become as one without love. 

Why do you think you cherish love?

It is because you are destined to like it if you don't want to.

The greater the love the mother and the father have for one another rather than just the love they have for themselves, the more ideal it would be.

Love's bond binds the mother and father completely into one.

Metal chains rust and break after much time, but the bond of love is eternal.

Food or money will not bond the parents and children.  This will happen only through the love between the parents and children that they can bound together.

A family formed on a foundation that cannot be affected by the elements of revolution, no philosophy or ideology would be able to absorb it.

Rather, that family would control and surpass them.

A family with such a standard would be eternally unchanging, even after decades, centuries, and milleniums.  They would maintain the form of a entire race and nation.

What would be contained inside a package of love?

Once you have reached the homeland and opened the package of love, an ideal husband or ideal wife would come out.

Moreover, the package of love should contain a pouch that is filled with blessings from which an ideal family would spring forth from it.  The highest level of restoration for the world would come out of this pouch.  in this state, no one in the world would be above or below anyone.  The individual, family, tribe, race nation and world would be all at the highest level.

Therefore, brothers and sisters as well as the family itself would be restored based on the foundation of love.  In order to lay such a foundation for unity, a package of love like a treasure chest is required.

The family gives birth to the love for society, nation, and humanity

A circular motion is created once your mind and body are united centered on God and manifests in all sorts of forms and figures.  This is why the older sibling must love the younger, by following the example of their parents loving them.





A family that is united into one in love will blossom.



That love will flourish and spread to the love within the society, then the love within the nation.

In this way, it later becomes the love of the whole world.

Unfortunately, the ideal of love within the family spreading to each level has been obscured.  There has been an all and out attack on the structure of the family.

How should love be between siblings?

How should siblings love each other?  They should love one another as their father and mother loves them.  From whom should they learn to love?  They should learn from their parents.

Ideal love is realized in the family, however, God could not have true sons and daughters.

There has not been true brothers and sister or husband and wife in society before.  If we could not become true children could God become fully our True Father?  No, we are only at best His adopted children, because our bloodline belongs to Satan.

It is God's will to fulfill these things.  Love dwells only when God's will is fulfilled.  People would abandon everything they have in the world just to find their way to the place where such a heavenly love could be found.

What is true love?

It is parental love, conjugal love and filial love put together.

If people are unable to sacrifice their selfish ways for each other, then love will not be able to last a long time in the that environment and will disappear. This easily explains why marriages and families are breaking down due to humanity adapting to more selfish, individualistic way of living.

Naturally, good parents sacrifice themselves for their children.  The bond of love they have for their children will never break.  The sons and daughters who grew up receiving true love from their parents will be filial children toward them.

When the husband and wife try more and more to live sacrificially for each other, thinking in their hearts, "You have lived for my sake," their family will receive blessings from heaven.

Such families are the dwelling place that God seeks.

Who is the most valuable in the family?

The children are not the most valuable.  This sounds shocking.  Take yourself for example.  Is there anything that is more valuable than your parents?  Is authority, knowledge, honor or money more precious to you than them?  Wouldn't you give up all of these things if your parents were on their deathbed?  Of course.

The parents are of the highest value within the family.  None of these objects are more valuable than your parents.  The next in value would be your spouse and finally your children.

What is more valuable than the life of those listed above?  There is no such thing in creation that is more valuable than the unit of your family.  Then why do we value our parents, spouse and children so highly?

It is because we have a love for them that will never be severed.  Even within a relationship where there seems to be 'hate' within the family, hate is a form of love that has been misguided in the wrong direction.  You can't not hate that which you do not love.

Parental love is absolutely necessary for the children. 

For a husband and wife to stay united, conjugal love is necessary.

The sibling love between brothers and sisters, and filial piety toward parents, are also absolutely necessary in a family.

Who do you cherish and like the most in your family?

It's your parents, right?  Why do you like them the most?

It is the one relationship in your life that sustains love from the moment of birth o throughout your life.  The one you love next best would be your spouse.  If the love shared in the relationship between a husband and wife is not a conditioned love, but is unconditional, then that love becomes the best thing in a family.  Nowadays, spouses agree to love each other until the other crosses a certain boundary.  This is a conditioned love that is based on the individual's preferences.

Unconditional love brings happiness and harmony even if this love is not directly connected to the eternal love of God.  Then finally the filial love the children have for their parents.  If children can sacrifice their selfish ways for and love their parents in a bright and positive manner, they can bloom as the hope of the future.  This type of filial love will be a pure and sincere contribution to their own happiness.

A family that is in complete possession of the true parental love, true conjugal love and has true filial love would be the most ideal family in the world.

Who do you think is the center of the family?

The person who is the oldest member of the family.  That would be the great grandfather if he is still living.  He would be the center of the family.

If the other members choose to ignore him and think of him as not as immportant because he will soon pass, it is the same as ignoring the vertical (spiritual realm) world.

Even if the eldest in the family was to become senile and dependent on other, he should still be the center of that family.  This means he should be the first served at the every meal.  This is becausee the son represents the horizonatl position.

Where does unhappiness come from?

It is when the love nest is lost.  In a happy family, the children live with and attend their parents who safeguard the household.  The parents safeguard the house.

The parents represent God.  They are two strangers who represent two separate families who unite as husband and wife, bound together in love.  They abide by the heavenly principle and carry on the family line.  A family must have parents, spouse and children.  Only then can that family provide the grounds for happiness.

God's yearning for the ideal He purposed for humankind is in order to find His own happiness.  God cannot fulfill His ideal world without human beings.  Only when humankind and God form a relationship in unity, can He have a place of emotional harmony.

We feel joy when we are emotionally content in our own homes.  God wants to be able to feel the same from such a position with the world.  Even if someone was to obtain all the wealth, fame and possessions in the world, this alone does not bring happiness.

Do we not see this trend today?  There are mega stars in deep depression, suicidal and unhappy even though they seem to externally have everything.  These things may be the condition to find happiness, but they cannot be happiness itself.

What determines whether you feel happy or not?

In order to feel happy, you need to have a loving parent, a spouse, and children.  No one one earth can deny this truth.  If anyone has only fulfilled one of these conditions, he would still feel a hole, incomplete and feel sad. He would not be able to help feeling discontent proportionate to what is missing.

What do youthink God had in mind for the first human ancestors?

Could such a loving God have imagined a world of chaos for His children?  A world filled with sadness and unhappiness?

God's ideal was for man and woman to come together in union to form an ideal family that would eventually become an ideal world.

The man or woman is not the center of an ideal family.  A family is just an unit that is connected to each other by the bond of a parent to a child and a husband and wife's love. These relationships would then be centered on God's love.

Therefore, we can conclude that God's will is to perfect a family that is centering on His love.

This is an ideal family:  a place where parents, children, husband and wife, and brothers and sisters desire to unite into oneness based on true love.

From such a place the eternal global equalization begins and consequently, the God's Kingdom on earth.

This is followed by God's Kingdom in heaven coming about automatically.

As God is the original substance of true love, when one connects to true love everyone becomes part of one body.

Parents are gods living in God's stead on earth, husband and wife are mutual counterpart gods and sons and daughters are little gods.

Is there any domination or manipulations on any part within that kind of relationship?

A family is composed of three generations which is centered on true love in this manner and is the basis of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Without achieving such a foundation, the kingdom cannot be established.

The family is the center of the universe.

Family perfection is the basis for the perfection of the universe.

If there is true love within the family and a love for the universe, you can freely go anywhere.

In this case, God stands in the combined central position of love as the Parent of the whole universe.

Man's love, woman's love, son's love, daughter's love, parents' love and God's love are all included in the original ideal family foundation.

Those who love their parents, spouse and children in such an harmonized circumstance leads a heavenly life.

There is a saying to the effect, "All is well if there is harmony within the family." If peace reigns in a family everything will go well.

A family that has reached perfection in love, is a family that experience peace which forms the basis of God's Kingdom.

The driving force of a family is true love.

Loving God more than yourself and loving your spouse more than life itself is such an example of the the power of pure and beautiful love.

God did not create a force that is greater than the power of true love in the universe.

True love is God's love.

Such a family is the basis of God's Kingdom.

How else will heaven on earth begin if the individuals within a family are disunited?  Each family's driving force is true love.

A human being should be part of a parent-child relationship as well as a husband and wife and sibling relationship.

These three relationships should meet at one point.

There can only be one central point.

That means the central point of upper and lower, left and right and front and rear should be one and the same.

If any of these have a different center, then the balance of the three relationships would be broken.

For example, it is hard for even three people to come together if their each stick their their philosophies without finding a common ground.

In the end, there are seven points:  above, below, left, right, front, rear and finally the central point is formed.

The significance of fulfilling the number seven is the seven points have become as one in perfected true love, centering on God, thus achieving a perfect sphere forming a family that manifests harmony and peace.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Ten, Chapter Two, Section 1

Love Nation, World, Humankind = World Peace

Just like God, love is not flat.  Once you are united with God in oneness, a circular motion manifests in all kinds of forms and figures. This is why the older sibling must love the younger by following the examples of their parents who love them as well. Love will blossom within a family that is united in this way. That love becomes the love within a society and then the love within a nation.  In this this expansion of heart, it will later become the love of the whole world.  This is how world peace will be established - through the family. Love of the Nation, Love of the World, and Love of Humankind When you look at the world it is composed of many nations. Nations are composed of societies.  Societies are made of of tribes. These tribes are made up of families which are two individuals coming together. Those who sacrifice their lives to live for the public purpose of humankind will come together centering on their love for humankind. Likewise, have a love for their homeland, they will unite based on patriotic ideas. As their patriotic feelings grow stronger, the citizens will unite through their patriotism in order to establish a nation. You must build relationship and gather people of like mind together once you know you have the responsibility to work on the patriotic movement.  The base where genuine love can settle down is the family. Therefore, the original family that embodies the love of the universe will expand the domain of love in the universe and be protected by the universe. We should go beyond the family level and walk the patriotic path of loving the nation.  Furthermore, we must go beyond race and nation and go toward the path of loving the world. Those who love their family are children of filial piety and virtuous wives.  Those who love their nation are patriots.  What do we call those who love the world?  We call them saints. The path of children of filial piety, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters How do you become a global figure? You cannot become one by just human morality or making people your central concern. If you are only concerned with human beings, then you will not be able to go beyond the national level. It is that which is of heaven that will enable you to step beyond the national level. If you do not have a philosophy that embraces heaven and earth, then you cannot go beyond the national level. If you look at the ranks of the saints, they revered God or did they not revere him?  Is there any saint that did not have God?  They all upheld God's will as their standard way of living. Thus, the saints have spoken about God tremendously, not just about humankind.  Moreover, the saints have taught not only the way of morality, but the path of the heavenly law. Children of filial piety serve and love their parents in a family.  Those who serve and love the nation are patriot. Those who love the world are saints. Then, what is it that I teach? It is to be a divine son or daughter who loves God, the world, and the universe. Which will you be? Will you be a divine son or daughter, or a dutiful son or daughter?  Love is the essence that moves reality. It cannot be omitted from daily life or from history.  Love provides the internal power which moves everything from a parent's body to our social institutions. This is why, when you are educated, you are taught to love your country. You are taught, brotherly love, parental love, conjugal love and worldwide philanthropy of your country. All of these contain love. What does this mean?  It means that we cannot connect to history without including love which is the realm of people's daily lives and the course of history. What do you have to become? You must become a patriot.  A patriot devotes one's effort to serve the people as they would serve the nation's ruler.  What is a child of filial piety?  They are those who devote all their efforts toward their parents. Those who devote themselves to their brothers and sisters as they would serve their parents are children of filial piety. Saints are people who have sacrificed themselves until now and died for the sake of all humankind. What is a divine son or daughter?  Those who reach out to the world centering on God and serve mankind as they would serve God are divine sons and daughters. Historical saints are those who have died for the sake of the people of the world.  Divine sons and daughters are loyal to God, but as they live for God they also live for the sake of all people.  Being a saint does not make you a divine son and daughter or God's child. What is next level after you become a child of filial piety, a patriot and a saint?  No matter how much you have loved the nation's ruler and its people, you have to know the laws of the heavenly royal palace to be a divine son and daughter.  You have to live in the rhythm with the palace law. A filial child's heart goes straight to his parents without changing. The same goes for the patriot whose heart goes straight to the king.  The saint, likewise, has a heart that goes straight toward God without changing. In other words, you can be a child of filial piety, a patriot and saint only when your heart goes straight without changing even in a situation where you may face death. A filial child serves and loves the parents in the family.  The one who serves and loves the country is the patriot and the one who serves and loves the world is the saint. You should be divine sons and daughters who love the world and universe.  Once you have such a broaden love, you must have as much love as God. The child of filial piety lives on even when his household perishes.  This is why there are epitaphs of children of filial piety, patriot and saints. Divine sons and daughters are people who know how to observe not only national laws, but also the laws of the heavenly royal palace. Thus, that which can connect straight to the path of children of filial piety, patriots and the path of saints is the path of the divine sons and daughters. Our life course can be condensed into the life paths walked by filial children, patriots, saints and divine sons and daughters. Would they be paths driven by the heart of wanting to be together and live together regardless of the upper and the lower, transcending front and back, left and right, and day and night, and going beyond one's own life? This is the conclusion that has emerged. No matter how outstanding a person may be, he is of no use if he has no love.   Also, happiness becomes connected based on love. The medium that connects brothers and sisters, friends, countrymen, all humankind and heaven on earth is love.  Love is like yeast. God created the universe and established its law.  What kind of being is He? He is the Being who stands as the representative caring for others more than anyone else.  This is God. Therefore, if you want to meet God, you have to live for the sake of others.  God is the king of knowledge, but he will not tell you to come to Him with knowledge. Although He is the king of capability, He would not tell you to approach Him with capability. God is the king of money, power and knowledge, He does not need these things. God would tell you that anyone can come to Him that lives for the sake of others.  God exists in front of human beings for their own sake. This is why we want to follow God forever.  If you want to maintain your own position of existence living within the natural law, you must exist for the sake of others as the universe does. Through serving others, you connect to the East and the West, and to the past and the present.  God has the same love in the past that He has now in the present. God can overcome the East and the West and overcome the past and the present, and even the future. Therefore He is able to unify them into one.  How is He able to do this? He unifies them only in love. Return for Tomorrow's Post: The Importance of the Love of Nature This Post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook, "Cheon Seong Gyeong, "True Love", Book Three, Chapter Two, Section 8

Family Protected Through Loving Children

A family where loving parents embrace their children and share in joy will not be able to be attacked by anything in the universe. Rather, your family will have natural protection.  People have not known this fundamental principle. If a child is born crippled or has a terminal illness, it is natural for the deep heart of the parent to flow to the crippled child.  Is that wrong? The heart of such a handicapped person is like a valley, and the heart of the parents like a big area on the hilltop. The heart of such parents flows from the top to that deep valley. There is nothing bad in the heart of parents who live for the sake of their children.  The more miserable their situation and worn out their clothes are, then the further they dig into the deep valley of tears. What would happen if a baby was ashamed of taking a poop?  A baby isn't ashamed if they pee or poop accidentally on their parents. Rather he smiles openly in front of their parents as they watch them clean up after him. This is only possible with love.  In love, there is no such thing as dirty things. Love can overcome everything. A mother who breastfeeds her baby at her bosom has an earnest heart. The parents' heart is such that even when their baby's poop and pee smells, they are able to forget this and overlook instances like this because of their love. If fallen parents have such a heart toward their children, how much more heart does God have as the subject partner of love? God wanted to love Adam and Eve through His original heart.  We should think about this deeply. The parents heart always feels lacking and they feel they can always give something more. They want to love more, wondering if they have loved enough even after giving love and they feel regretful and sorry even after giving. Because of this, their heart can be part of the essential core of eternal love. This is the same heart that was the original motivation at the very beginning of love. When parents divorce, it is the same as cutting their children in half with a knife.  The public law of the universe does not allow this. Parents who violate this will receive punishment and be followed by misfortune wherever they go. They will be unable to find true happiness. When the baby becomes hungry, the mother's breasts becomes swollen with milk.  When the milk swells them up and her breast become sore, there is an abundant pressure. The heart of the mother who embraces her baby and gives him milk is hard to express in words. When her swollen breasts go down, then the mother feels relieved and happy. No one can understand this feeling unless she is a mother herself.  Moreover, as the mother bonds and watches her baby suck her breasts while touching it, love springs up abundantly in her heart. If you were to ask a mother if she would rather lose her husband or her child, if she really loves her child, she will say that should would never give up her child.  She would rather give up her husband if she had to choose. Husbands may be hurt to hear this. These days, some people would say that if a child dies they can just have another one. This is the last option.  In the principle of matters of order, we see that the husband and wife are horizontal and come last.  The history of love is like this. What on earth is the original love? It is the kind of love where a parent would give their life for their child. Their love goes beyond their own life.  Why must this be so?  Originally, the universe was not created for the sake of life, because it was created for the sake of love.  Love came first. Since this is the case, then life goes along with love, and not that love goes along with life. Genuine love sacrifices life and goes beyond life.  This is because this love of Heaven is a love that can connect with the universe. The salmon's life is a great example. The salmon dies after laying its eggs. nevertheless the male and female first become one to lay their eggs. This means that salmon couples are deeply in love.  It is as if they have been sentenced to die. The male makes a hole in the ground once the female lays her eggs and protects them.  This is truly an ideal couple. The body of the mother becomes food for her young. Why would the Creator think to create salmon in such a way?  Seeing this, we see how important our young are.  God created the salmon as a model to show that love, and our young are the most precious things. The life of the salmon is truly a great textbook for humankind. Parents' love is complete even after being shared over and over again Why is it we cannot help loving our children? Because when we love our children, it is like inheriting God's great work of creation the horizontal (earth) and substantial level. Through loving our children, we feel the joy God felt after creating Adam and Eve. We inherit God's love and God's authority to create.   Parents who have raised many children see that their heart of love is wide, large and deep. They can feel on their own that they cannot fight even their wicked enemies.  They stand on that foundation and live according to that broad of a law. When a baby is born, he follows the electric current of love and automatically seeks out his mother's nipple. He does not care how ugly or beautiful his mother is.  To witness such a sight of unmatched harmony and holiness. Each of us are the fruit of our parents' love for one another.  We are born in love, and grow up while receiving love. You are the visible, real fruit of what your mother and father's love is like.  Therefore, it is natural that the parents have to love the person who is the fruit of their love. Through this fruit, the infinite love bears fruit yet again. This is the path where we can be connected to individual love, family love, tribal love, universal love and even the fundamental love of God. You are a unique participant and companion in love in front of your parents. This love makes you equal to your mother and father and you can rise to an equal position. This is the privilege of love. Parents want to bequeath everything they own to their sons and daughters, whom they truly love. You can jump in and inherit a hundred percent of the universe when you have found an equal position of value of love in the tradition of love. This is why all parents want a child of filial piety. Children of filial piety pass on the inheritance of love as participants in the eternal love of their parents. A baby who is born through love can do whatever he wants and you will not dislike him one bit. Rather, no matter what, you will love your baby because he is made from your flesh and blood and is a second you, created through love. Even when he defecates or urinates, has a runny nose, he is still cute and adorable in your eyes. This is because these things are soaked in love. The love between the parents and children comes from the parents.  We receive our parents' love from the moment of our birth. After we receive the parents' love and grow up, then we receive the horizontal love between husband and wife. In order for the love of the husband and wife to continue, they must have children and love them. Parents can feel genuine love only when they have children. Through only the love of brothers and sisters, we cannot learn about parents' love. In other words, we come to know parental love when we ourselves experience the circular course through becoming parents and complete the circle. The love string of our parents and the string of our ideals are connected to each of us.  This cannot be cut off by anyone.  All of the power of the universe protects such a union. Thus, wherever I go, my parents will follow me. My parents always want to be with me, even in the spirit world. Thus, it is a sin to dislike your parents accompanying you. The highest value for human beings is to think of and love our parents like they are our own body and practice filial piety. We are born from our parents' love and are engrafted to their love. Before the connection of life and lineage are made through love, the connections are in place. Why are each of us so precious?  Not because we have life, but because we participated together in our parents' love. Parents have loved, but the individual is the fruit of that love. Each of us are precious because we are born with the beginning point and the fruit.  True parents strive to continue this tradition of love. This is the same for those in the East and the West.  All parents want to have an universal tradition of love by transcending our own tribe. All people want and strive to bring their family into completeness and harmony so they can live a happy and peaceful life. In this case tradition is the essence. Only tradition can connect with the future. Which is greater: conjugal love of husband and wife or the love between parents and child? Westerners value the conjugal love of husband and wife as greater, but this is not so. Love for a child is greater than the love of the spouse. In conjugal love, the husband and wife fight because they think the other does not love them. But parents and children fight thinking that they must love the other more, this is the original heart. The parent and child relationship is such a way because the love of parents and child is the center and vertical.  It follows the road that is close to the heavenly law.  Thus, we find that the love that serves others is closer to the genuine love. However strong a man is, or however tough a woman may be, they will bow down to that love. The reason parents are precious is because they give and sacrifice for the sake of their children.  So things come to be the other way around. When parents get old, they become children. Long before, the parents were their children's first teacher, but they become seventy and eighty years old they become like children again. At the same time, the child takes the place of the father or mother.  The child should love his parents just as the parents have loved them when they raised them.  This is the principle of heaven and earth. Return for Tomorrow's Post: This post was rewritten and derived from the book, Cheon Seong Gyeon Book Three, "True Love' Chapter 2, Section 3

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