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

The Nobility of Life on Earth

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

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

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

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

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

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

We must cross over from the evil realm into goodness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Therefore, we cannot subjugate Satan without a physical body.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life passes like the setting sun.

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

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

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

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

Everything can be measured by means of some norm.

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

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

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

Self-centered living is fraught with worries.

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

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

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

The preciousness of our life on earth

If you are liberated, God will be liberated.

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

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

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

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

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

We must realize how precious the body is.

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

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

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

The average lifespan does not exceed hundred years.

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

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

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

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

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

The spirit world is infinite and eternal.

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

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

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

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

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

Habitually doing things in life is important

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

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

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

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

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

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

The standard of life on earth

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

Everything will be recorded through the physical body

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

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

You should leave behind a life of value. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life on earth is so important

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

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

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

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

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

How important is life on this earth?

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

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

Using our physical selves to fulfill our portion of responsibility

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

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

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

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

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

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

Therefore, your responsibility while on earth is very important.

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


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

All your senses operate within a substantial realm of love.

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

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

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

What happens once a person passes to the spirit world?

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

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

How can one come to resemble God?

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

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

God is the God of Love

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

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

You can come to understand this through spiritual experiences.

God's love is stronger than the sun.  

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

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

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

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

Love originates from God

Our cells expand and feel even the energy of love.

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

How can we describe God's love?

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

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

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

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

God's love has such delectable flavor.

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

This makes you happy just imagining such an environment.

Maybe thickheaded men cannot understand this very well.

Love fills the place where God dwells. 

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

Would this be an environment of heaven or hell?

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

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

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

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

What kind of taste would God like most?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What brings this about?  It is love.

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

Love transcends the law.

There is nothing God does not have.

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

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

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

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

God is the one who like love most.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

God is the bone of love. 

You should know this simple fact.

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

Therefore what is love?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He is that kind of awesome parent.

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

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

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

Even this was not enough.

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

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

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

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

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

We will have a free pass everywhere.

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

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

Where do God and human beings connect?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love can fill anywhere, and reach everywhere. 

What happens when loving people embrace?

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

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

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

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

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

Why do people like and follow God throughout the ages?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life also lives within love.

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

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

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

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

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

The only thing that God needs is love.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why Are Humans Born?

Which came first, life or love?  We can claim that each is first, but which do you think came first?

It is love that came first, because the love between parents is how children come about.

For something to have value, there should be an original flow of love. Love comes first, then life, because what comes second must humbly surrender to what comes first.

This is natural that we offer our lives for the sake of love.

This is how things are.  Since we are born in love, then the conclusion is that we should walk the way of love and die for love.

Why Are Human Beings Born?

We were born to find the kind of love that the macrocosm is able to welcome.

Our purpose is to be born, to love and to die in the midst of the great universal love that God, creation, our parents and angelic world all can acknowledge.

This is how I see it.  Human beings are not born based on their own choice. Then, are they born due to their parents' wishes? No. They are born due to God's desire. 

Children are born through the love of their parents which represents God's love. The person who is born as a new life through parental love, representing God's love, is 'I'.

Love has the power to create everything. 

I am the one who is born at the center of the whole universe by receiving all the love of the universe.

Then the highest purpose of life is to be born through love, be raised in love, live by love and to leave love behind when we pass onto the next world.

Then the most valuable thing to do in the whole universe is to fulfill the rules of love, through the family, which is at the center of the universe.

You should understand truly why human beings are born.

We were not placed on this earth for the sake of acquiring money, knowledge or power.

We are born because of love and from love.  What is it that makes love so great?  Why does every human being seek to embrace love?

Love is the original source of life. You are born in the midst of your parents' love.

No one was born out of their parents' desire for money or knowledge, but for love.

Since you are born from a love like this, then you should be able to bear fruits of love.  This is why children are needed.

A husband and wife only become complete when they have sons and daughters as their object partners.

Human beings cannot exist apart from love.  All things originate in God's love.  All things come into existence on the foundation of love.

It is undeniable that human beings, as the center of the created universe, must also have begun in love.
Therefore, since we begin life in love, mature through love, then we cannot live separated from the standard of love.

This is the logical solution.  Man's problems and woes all begin and continue because we are separated from the true love which comes from God.

Life in its Original Form

What is the cause of human existence?  Why are we here?

Since the cause of our existence is love, then our purpose lies in completing the ideal of love.  Not the ideal of success, money or knowledge, but love will only make your life complete because it is is our origin.

When we clearly understand this, then we see why there is so much suffering in the world: lack of love.

For this to happen, a man and a woman who have a relationship must become one in love and connect front and back, left and right and above and below.

Even if we determined with our life to become an absolute being and have an absolute purpose for our lives, it is fruitless unless we are happy.

Our daily life should be happy.  We live for this purpose.

So, when we are able to achieve the purpose, something new will exist that is greater than existence itself.

What is it?

What is the most precious for a man and woman?  It is love.

The key element to happiness: love.

No matter how lofty a person's purpose may be, if he is not able to establish love that can take dominion over his purpose, then he will have to pursue a new purpose.

Purpose does not stand above love.

What do you live for?

Some say they live to eat or shop and there will be some who say that they live to work or they live without a purpose, they are just trying to get through today.

If you are able to say that you live for the sake of love or the sake of others that is a great answer!

Human beings are born as the fruit of love, live in love and return that love to the eternal love of God's bosom.  This is the original life of creation God intended.

Once one grows up in love, next he leaves the love of his parents and finds and connects to the love of a partner.  This love is in another dimension.

On the way to restoration, there is the formation stage, the growth stage and the completion stage.  We can call parental love the formation-stage love and conjugal love the growth-stage love.

Therefore a couple, no matter how much they may be in love, cannot see the completion of their love until they have children.

This is why couples eventually desire to have children. Have you realized that a couple who is unable to have children feel unfulfilled no matter how much they love one another?

A couple having children is the completion-stage love.

Therefore, the center of human life is the process of going through conjugal love, parental love and children's love.  This is the original path of God's ideal of love at the time of creation.

Life is born from love. 

We are born from love, grow up in love while being loved by our parents.  Then one meets a beloved wife and loves her and dies in love.  This is what is called human life.

Therefore, in the original world, there would have been no sorrow or pain in human life or in death.

The original center of the universe is the place where all the vertical(spirit) and horizontal(earth) combinations of love come together so that parental love, conjugal love and children's love can unite.

This becomes the point upon which the entire universe focuses and the directions of all cells in the universe are.

Also all of the spirits in spirit world focus on this love relationship.  They will also protect this place so no one can invade it.

If this place of pure love was invaded, it will be catastrophic, since it is the center of human life.  There should be a certain form in order for it to remain intact.

This form is called the four-position foundation of relationship(siblings love, parental love, spousal love, centered on God's love)

For Human Beings, the Eternal Element of Life is Love

You should not forget that while you lived as an embryo, you received nutrition from your mother, but you also received love from her.  Likewise, people who live on earth do not only receive physical nutrition from the elements in the universe, but also love from God. He is the essential element of life.

Just like all plants absorb sunlight as an element of life, love is an element of life for people.

We have hopes that the Kingdom of Heaven on earth or the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven be built where we live eternally in love and in adoration of one another.

We are born through love and grow through their childhood while receiving love.

After we grow to a certain age, we realize that parental love is not enough.  Their love expands horizontally through the love among brothers and sisters and the love of the tribe.

In other words, they grow to maturity while receiving all kinds of love in heaven and earth.  When they become adults, they thirst even more for the love with the opposite sex.

By engaging in this love, they finally find the center of love, a more comprehensive love.  The path that a man and woman walk exists because of love and for the sake of love.

My path is the path of love.  I move in order to attain love, keep love, and form an environment of love. It is also for the sake of love that women put on cosmetics and receive massages. Wanting something and doing work are all for the sake of love. We overcome hardship and move on in order to attain precious love.

From the moment we are born, we receive parental love.  As long as our parents are alive, they love us at each stage of life we experience - from childhood, our youth or the period of middle age. When we grow up receiving parental love, the horizontal love of husband and wife is bound to happen to each of us.

What is marriage?

Marriage is a school, a place where men learn something they did not know about women and women learn something they did not know about men.

Everyone should get a grade of A in order for the husband and wife to be pleased.

You also have sons and daughters for the sake of learning how to love the world.  The last several posts have discussed how God's original ideal was for love to be learned through the relationship of a true family which would expand to the global level of world peace.

Without having children, you will not have a connection to the future.   God gave you children as educational materials through which you can be connected to the future world.

Fulfilling your filial duties to your ancestors and grandfather and grandmother is like receiving education from the spirit world.  All of these are connected through love.

The grandfather and grandmother, husband and wife, and sons and daughters are all connected through love. 

Just like our blood vessels flow up and down, you also go up and down all the way to your ancestors of 10 million generations in the spirit world.  You also reach your distant descendants through this connection.

So, you should know that this is how spirit world and the universe are organized.  All things will be governed in this way.  Therefore, becoming a servant of love and a slave of love is the greatest happiness.

What is God's Love?

Try to find God's love.  How are you able to characterize God's love?

We can compare it to a warm spring day where white clouds gently float in the sky.

The heat then rises from the ground, insects fly around, ants crawl in and out and pussy willows shoot out by the stream.

Frogs sing new spring songs, bees swarm and butterflies flutter from flower to flower.

When you come to such an environment, you are intoxicated by it and feel sleepy.  But in reality, you are awake and feel so good that you want to stay like this forever.

When God finds His object partner, He gets the same feeling like this.

Do you have a good feeling or a bad feeling when you think about this?  Maybe dull-witted men may not be aware of such details.  Of course, it feels good.

When you run into someone that you haven't seen in a while, you feel pleased.  You will firmly shake their hand or tightly hug them.  When someone joyfully says, "Long time no see!" and hugs you firmly, do you feel good or bad?  If there is someone who says he feels bad, just kick him.

When you are excited to see someone you haven't seen in a while, do you tightly grab them?

Do you firmly like it when someone grasps your hand firmly?  You might not like it.  Maybe you do not know the person.  You have to know something to like it.  You do not know it, then how can you like it?

If your husband loves you, you do not need anything else.

You will live clinging tightly to your husband.  It is always great to see a man and a woman firmly holding hands.  Especially when the man's hands are as rough as a cow's hoof and her hands are soft as butter.

We like to watch romantic movies that display such affection.

If the woman says to the man that he has such pretty hands, he would be offended.  This is how things are.

Love is eternal.  Love is united, not divided.  You become one.

When a man and a woman become a couple and love each other, they are bonded together. 

This does not happen literally, but in heart they are able to reach a level that is higher than this.

This is God's love.

If you can live centered on such love, will you be united or not?  Everything is destined to become one no matter how confused and disunited it is in the present moment.

We see that many kinds of things happen when a man and woman fall in love.  If you find a way to know God's love and are able to taste it, then His love cannot be compared to anything that exists in this world.

If there is someone who has tasted this love, no amount of difficulty or sorrow can defeat that person.

A person who lives in the realm of God's love is liberated.  How do you find such a place?

God's love can be divided into three great forms of love: parental love, conjugal love, and children's love.  The center where these three forms combine into one is God's absolute love.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: God's Rules for Successful Rrelationships

This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook, Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Four -True Family Chapter Four Section 1-4

God is the Closest Person to You

What is the highest embodiment of truth?

Parents, husband and wife, and children; there is nothing higher.

What then is at the center of that truth?  Love.

What is the center of the highest truth based on the principle?  We say that God is the ultimate source of truth, goodness, love and life.

They all go to the same point.  The establishment of truth requires love and life.

For this reason, God is the ultimate source of life, love and truth and He is the deepest core.

What kind of being is God?

He is both Father and Mother with dual characteristics.  The core is the parents.  When we view God from this point of view, God becomes a person.

Since God is all-powerful and all-knowing, His face will look rough when He appears to men.  

When God appears to Adam, God's face will look masculine; to women like Eve, God will have an appearance of a women can like.

If God existed before the creation of heaven and earth, how old do you think He is?

If a person can only count up to 70, then God will be 70.  When a kid can only count up to five asks God how old He is, He will say that He is five years old because they do not know anything above that.

No matter how many numbers there are, God cannot be calculated in terms of numbers. 

God is beyond numbers.  That is how our God is.

God also has a grand sense of humor.  He likes jokes very much.  Who do you think would be the greatest king of humor?  It is God.

He has a good sense of humor because He knows every aspect of existence and is all-powerful.

 Who is the great king that can get an audience to burst over in laughter?  It is God.
I am saying that this great king is God. 

Externally, God resembles men and internally He resembles women.  God is all-knowing and omnipotent, but He is also merciful with a heart that can embroider flowers on Buddha's smile.

God should also have a heart like that of the most feminine woman.  Only then can these two side have life.

God is the great Master of the universe.  He is a being that is not lacking in anything.  He has powers and is all-knowing about everything in existence.

Nevertheless, if a loving son pushed His way to God's bosom, would God ask Him How well His son knows Him?

Even if God tried to stop Him, the son would keep pressing forward to snuggle up to his own father's chest telling him that He wanted to touch His chest because he used to touch his own father's chest for so long.

Would God feel offended?  No.  Any father would be very happy.

When children reach physical maturity, they leave their parents' laps, house and leave for another area.   

When the children finally come home and put on old clothes and try to snuggle to their father's chest, would the father protest this?  Even a grandfather on his deathbed would be happy and tell his grandchild to snuggle and touch his chest.

God is the Creator. 

What more could be added to God?

If something is to grow bigger, it has to pull in and absorb something, or somebody has to add something to it.

How can God grow bigger if there is nothing added to Him and there is nothing for Him to pull in?  

This is an important question. I have not discussed it because if I did, you would talk about it carelessly and cause problems. So please research this. I am giving you this as homework. Do some research; write a paper and I will grade it. 

Have you ever thought where God originally began?

Was He born all of a sudden?  People of faith may say that it is blasphemy to speak about the holy Creator.  Haven't you ever been curious as to whether God came into being or He always existed?

How do you think the absolute God originally began? Do you think He was born all of a sudden, coming out quickly? 

We need to have a logical basis to go on.

Dr. Yoon! How did God come into being? Shouldn't someone with a doctorate in physics know this? Isn't it a shame if the holder of a doctoral degree covers his face like that? Church members can only say, "God naturally exists," but this is not the case.

God Himself also had to develop. This is the correct answer. 

What is it that has the power of the matchless beauty of creation? 

Even though God is all-knowing and all-powerful, God is a personal God.  He is a person when He relates to love.  He will want to sleep there in peaceful rest.  God would not tell you do not rest or demand that you work on restoration of the world through indemnity day and night.

This is God's Principle.  It is just like breathing.   When you exhale, you have to inhale.

God also has to rest after work because He wishes to feel the joy of rest.

Everything is connected to God through a give and take relationship.  If God exists, what kind of being is He?

He is all-knowing, all-powerful and His presence is pervading. He is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent.  He can do anything.  What if God was to one day tell everyone to serve Him alone?

What if God told all of the spirit world that they must serve Him absolutely because of He is absolute, all-knowing and almighty?

What if everything was ordered to serve only God?

What would take place?  

Because of the essence of our conscience, we would not be able to embrace that in the long term.  This would inevitably cause conflict.  Your hearts would eventually conflict with that kind of law in the future.

The only partner that God can love is human beings.

Why can't God create another God among His creatures?

You may think that God could just create another God just like Himself.  What would happen as a result?  The other God would eat with God, follow Him, they would work together, and stand together.

When God sat down, then the other God would sit down together with Him.

How would life be if they acted exactly the same for hundreds of millions of years?  How stifled would they feel?

Their eyes would turn inside out in a day.  How many days do you think you could talk to each other.  They would say that everything is the same and would complain.

What is at the center of religion?  It is God.

Of course, each religion has a different name for God, but the name does not matter.

God is one.  God is not two.  When people talk about God, they use different names to refer to Him because each nation has a different nation, but the Original Being is one.

Heaven and earth did not just come into being by itself because it wanted to.  Surely, some origin and some motivation based on some source of power initiated this creation.

When we look at this from a higher level, there has to be a basic agent of power who, as a central subject partner moves heaven and earth or creates things.  This being is called God.

No matter which name He is given, the universe needs to have a center.

Although existing beings act and move around, the central being does not move around with them in their world.

Therefore, there has to be a central original being who remains forever fixed at the center of the world of relationships, which are in motion.

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This post was rewritten and derived from "True Parents and Us" Chapter One, Cheon Seong Gyeong section 4