Heaven is a World of Pure Love

Heaven is the world of living for the sake of God

“If I say that heaven is empty, people will think I am demented. But Jesus could not enter heaven. You cannot go there alone. Our original ancestors should have grown through adolescence, established the ideal of love in which God dwelt, become parents and bequeathed the seeds of true love.

“Then the first place they would have entered would have been heaven. But up until now, there have been no parents embodying God's love, who were able to leave the seeds of true love.”

Adam and Eve did not leave such a glorious foundation to have such descendants.  Thus, heaven is empty.
“I have been going this way, enduring persecution for forty years, because I too am greedy to grasp the line of love that leads to the global heaven.

"This was so I could grasp the line of love beyond the individual, family, tribe, people, nation and world. Then, with this in my grasp where will I go?

“After finding the love line of the world, we must go back to our hometown because we have received many blessings and succeeded in life. Shouldn't we go to our hometown and save the unfortunate people there?”


The way to heaven is opened by loving your brothers as God does. You are trying to follow me, but while keeping such a heart you should strive to reach out and bring your brothers with you.

We can conclude that the one who teaches the highest, quickest and best way to go to heaven is neither God nor me, but your brothers.

People of faith scream out about going to heaven, but can people just automatically go to heaven without encountering it first on earth?

In order to enter heaven on earth, you have to go through the law of love.

A family that has many children can restore many sins and the greater the additional cross of loving God’s Kingdom.

A family has many children because they have many responsibilities for the sake of the kingdom.  Children will be born in this family who can inherit good fortune in the generation to come.
What kind of person can enter heaven?

The person who can enter heaven is the one who is one with God’s mind.  They should center on God to the point when God works on His will that person should be in harmony with God’s mind for eternity.

This harmony should not last for just ten years, but eternally align to the eternal God.

How can we find unity with God and be like God?  In order to be His son, you should not appear to be a sad person.  Heaven is established from removing the satanic lifestyle and denying everything that is related to his will and thinking.  Futhermore, we should eliminate him.

To enter heaven, a person must not sin, must receive God's love directly.

A person who can unite completely with God and eliminates Satan, does not need a savior because they will be directly linked to God.

Only when a person such as this goes to heaven can a peaceful world be established.

The future descendants will unite this world and all heaven.  God, the first one, and these descendants are connected by the family.  Not the nation or individual.

When you go to heaven, no one will recognize you because you are an American and you will not be rejected for being from a poor nation. Only the family that can exhibit a true family will be acknowledged. This is the formula.

The warehouse where the fruits of such true families are stored is heaven.

You must practice a life of attendance before attending God.

Those who wholeheartedly attend God while on earth go to heaven.  This is our destiny to follow the course that advances toward the world of heavenly purpose.

You cannot enter heaven without being joined in heart. 

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Heaven is the original nation, the which can have dominion over the whole of humanity.

This nation had the original godly nature, not the fallen nature of today.  

Only people who have a deep bond of heart can posses such a nation.  Christianity deals with heart.  God is creating a foundation where we share our heart beyond our personal circumstances and live for others.

What kind of place is heaven?

Is heaven for those who just want to seek blessings?  No, it is for those who prepared themselves attending God with their whole heart while on earth.  They leave their life of attendance as their legacy and continue to push forward even if they were to die in the process.

It is where you can take pride in what you prepared during your life on earth, and where you take pride in your life of attendance?

We should think seriously about the importance of how we should live from now on in this life of attendance.
Dr. Lee Sang-hun talks about the reality of the spirit world.  He saw heaven and said it is bright wherever you go.

Heaven is where God's light of love shines into all  corners of the universe, and all creation within its bosom. 

If we are liberated from Satan’s hold and let go of all their resentments, we should shout out for liberation!
To enter heaven, you must be united with God and the Messiah of the Second Coming’s true love.

Now that the True Parents have emerged and restored the fallen act of the first parents on earth, those related to children who are born from God’s lineage can go to heaven.

Up until this era, no one has been able to live such a life and go to spirit world.  Therefore, heaven is empty.

Even one who goes to church service for a hundred years, but they have a self-centered mind, they can never enter heaven or salvation.  A person who centers everything on him or herself has no value.

What kind of person is a true person?

Only the one who invests all of themselves including is own life for the sake of other people can live continuously in the realm of God’s love.

The great people of history and saints lived in this way.   This is the way we were all meant to live.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious book Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Six, Chapter two, Section 2.

Facets of Marriage Preparation

When singles and young people are equipped with the knowledge and skills about relationships, then they are better equipped for a successful marriage.

The following outline is what we will discuss that can be a defense against all of the misinformation about sex and relationships.

Knowledge and Insight

1. Discernment of true love
2. Realities of marriage
3. Option of intercultural marriage
4. Advantages of chastity

Relational Skills

1. Communication and conflict resolution
2. Setting boundaries of physical involvement


Knowledge and Insight

Social sciences tend to reinforce traditional wisdom of scripture, literature and philosophy in the matters of love, sexuality and marriage.  Despite contemporary sources of this knowledge and insight, the average person remains blind about the spouse's realm of heart.


1. Discernment of True Love

Singles benefit from a clear discussion about the true nature of love.  Armed with this, people will be able to to distinguish between true conjugal love and its counterfeits.

The most basic distinction is between true love and self-centered love or just a fleeting infatuation.


Contrasting Qualities of Love

Self-centered love                                 True Love

Prefers to be receiving. Enjoys giving.
Fosters self-absorption within               Encourages reaching out to others.
the couple and exclusion of others. 
Focuses on external traits                      Cherishes the other most for her good heart and character .
Weakened by time and separation. Intensified by time and separation.
Starts up quickly and ends                     Grows steadily and ends slowly just as quickly. if at all.
Makes the other feel anxious.               Makes the other feel secure.
Judges the other according to how
well the partner makes one feel loved.  Gives more to the other. 
Judges oneself and how one might         Prioritizes the relationship over truth and goodness. Bases the                                                                  relationship upon truth and goodness.
Hinders productivity.                             Enhances productivity.
Plagued by quarrels of increasing
frequency and severity. Characterized by fewer and fewer quarrels over time, of                                                                          decreasing intensity.
Poisoned and threatened by conflict. Deepened and fortified by conflict.



The issue of purity is a direct way to separate selfish love from
unselfish. “Ask the partner to wait until marriage for sex,” recommends
purity educator Mike Long, “ and by their response you’ll
know if he or she loves you.”6 This is an application of the classic
Biblical definition: “Love is patient and kind . . . . Love does not
insist on its own way.” 1 Corinthians 13.3-4

Love as volitional

People who are single also have the false idea of “falling in love” as a natural process in dating.


Only an overwhelming, irresistible attraction springing up spontaneously between two people can lead
to true and lasting love between them.





The only problem is finding the right person who can harbor those feelings.

In a relationship, if later the feelings they had for each other should wane, then this means that that was the wrong person after all and they should end that relationship.

This is a strong misunderstanding in the realm of relationships which neglects the volitional aspect of love which is suggested in the book, “Love is a Decision”, written by marriage expert Gary Smalley

“While it sounds romantic to ‘fall’ in love, the truth is that we decide who we want to love,” asserts high school relationship educator, Charlene Kamper.8 Coming from the Jewish matchmaking tradition and personal experience, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach agrees, “You can actually decide to fall in love with someone, and your heart will follow.”

It is true that one aspect of love is beyond control, but there is an intentional aspect that is controlled.

The latter can influence the former.  In other words, one can make the decision to love and encourage the feeling of love.

A person of heart and character is committed to being loving whether or not he or she feels loving at the time.

Parents experience this when they take action to love when there are no warm feelings of love and renew their hearts and their affection for their children are restored.

All religious beliefs that exhort to love your neighbor and even your adversary is based on the idea of love is a decision.

The reality of both marriage and friendship is that love demands a large amount of doing what one does not feel like doing even though everyone wants to love their spouse at all times.

It must be understood that love is an act of will and is an element of choice.

When this is clear, it gives freedom and security to youth who fear that they have flaws and wrongly believe that no one can love them or that if they get married, the love for their spouse will someday disappear.

“If we fall out of love,” they wonder, “how can we bring it back?”

It is possible to generate love even when it is not readily flowing.

If a man and woman follow the principles that generate true love such as, mind and body unity, giving and receiving, uniting around a higher purpose than the relationship, a couple can build a strong, affectionate connection.

Through this process they can also rebuild these feelings that only deepens and strengthens over time.

When we understand that it is not whom we love that counts but how we love, then we are not searching helplessly waiting to bump into the 'right one' to give such a love.

One can practice and build such a confidence in becoming the loving person their spouse will need right now by loving others.

When young people understand that love is an active verb, then they can grasp the key difference between maturity and immaturity.

An immature person focuses on being loved and the mature focuses on giving out love.


2. Realities of Marriage

Even though it is popular to have weddings, modern adolescents and single adults show a large ignorance about the institution of marriage.

These include the benefits of being married, its demands,  for success and so on.

Research backs up the advantages of being married and what it takes to succeed in it.  Researchers also reveal that all relationships several predictable phases of romance, conflict, re-commitment.

This phase is inevitable before a couple reaches a deep oneness of heart which is an very attractive element of couples of enduring love.

There is also a stage after marriage and the beginning of the romantic period when the illusion of the other falls away, which singles can prepare themselves for.

The warm feelings they experienced in the stage before dry up and they fee they are married to or dating a stranger.

Single people should learn that this is a part of growth and not evidence that they have married the wrong person.

When a married couple comes to this point they have three choice: one is to escape the marriage through affairs or divorce, another is to stay together but keep their distance, and the third option is to commit to have a love between them that is based on acceptance, respect and living for the other spouse's benefit.

Couples pursue the third way, a real bond develops between them and the enter into a season of greater discovery, intimacy and maturity than they have ever known.

The final stage which all relationships enter into is that of service, when the couple's cohesiveness bears a lasting fruit through the contributing to the lives of others.

Young people can have a negative outlook when they experience even minor conflicts in their own relationships or in marriages around them.

It is better when they know beforehand that the romantic phase will give way to tension and disillusionment about the relationship and person.

This is the opportunity to unite with the other on an even deeper level.

When one knows the phases they will encounter in a relationship, then they can avoid the mistake of giving up when difficulties inevitably arise.

Young people can also have a perspective in order to interpret what they see in others' relationships.



Expectations Brought Down to Earth

Media have portrays marriage as another means in order to gain personal gratification and not as a grounds for moral growth or a vehicle for raising children.

Blain Fowers calls the idealistic notion of a 'soul mate' who will meet all of one's needs for love and companionship a “myth of marital happiness.”

When people go into a relationship believing the other is to fill all of the holes they feel missing, they sabotage themselves by expecting too much.

Marriage education can help balance young people's expectations in alignment with reality.


3. The Option of Intercultural Marriage

When looking for a mate, individuals frequently look for others who are like themselves.

At the same time, opposites do attract. Partners who unite from different ethnic or other kinds of backgrounds, is increasing across the world through social media and as the world merges into one global community.

It is essential for everyone to be educated about the benefits in marriages that cross boundaries and how to prepare for the challenge.

One advantage of intercultural marriages is that the children have stronger immune systems from the merging of  genetically disparate lineages.

The combined cultural mix of spouses from different ethnic or religious heritages, offer their broad spectrum of gifts to their children.  Their minds and hearts will be stretched to embrace more types of people without having any prejudice toward them or have no ethnic arrogance.

Marriages that have spouses from different cultures and races are dramatic and fascinating to behold.

Marriages from different backgrounds encompass a greater slice of humanity than other unions.

People would not be able to take their eyes off of an ebony-toned highly educated African states woman receiving a kiss from her rumpled, golden-haired, Scandinavian fishing boat captain husband?

When love flows through groups that were are are enemies is poignant.

These unions help to bridge historical rifts heal any deep-seated wounds.

Reverend Moon says that Heavenly Father is very moved by couples like these.

Even though these partnerships are very rich, young people may look at the misunderstandings that will initially come in such a relationship.

Therefore, they must be prepared to make an extra effort o embrace their spouse's background and negotiate.

Many who lose their virginity and feel alone may ask, “Why didn't anyone tell me?”.

Those who are qualified should teach young people about the role of sex in marriage and also the destructiveness of having sex outside of a commitment before they make those mistakes.

Psychologist John Van Epp describes the healthiest progression of bonding as proceeding
in five steps: from knowing to trusting, from trusting to reliance, then from reliance to commitment, and only then to physical bonding.

Traditionally, these were well-known courting behaviors and now they have to be chosen on purpose.

When young people learn the natural steps and stages incurred in a relationship and how sex is a final step not beforehand, they are less likely to follow the wrong way.


Relational Skills

The possibility that those venturing into marriage might get a divorce can be very disempoering.

Also, those who try to keep their chastity may feel pressure and intimidation from the partners and peers who are sexually engaged.

Having basic 'people skills' is the bedrock of marital success. Reverend Moon suggest that couples preparing to get married should learn basic relational skill.

These skills can be learned beyond communicating in the home to team sports, leadership roles in schools, worship centers, work, childcare, teaching, sales experience and through   service projects.

Formal coaching in relationships can supplement these experiences.

Studies on human conflict and communication in close relationships have found methods to ease discord when it erupts and how to alleviate the blocks to a person having warm and effective interactions.

1. Communication and Conflict Resolution


If interaction is the lifeblood of all relationships, then blocks in communication comprise the classic relationship threat.

Prominent marriage and abstinence courses train in communication and conflict resolution techniques which are invaluable in marriage and further down the road in parenthood, and for a single person's family and friends.

When one learns how to talk, listen and reduce the tension that is bound to arrive in relationships, they have more of a chance at having more successful interactions.

This involves learning to cope when negative feelings like stress, anger, guilt and fear arise.  These skills take time to learn.

“‘Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry.’” James 1.19


On one hand there is the ability to speak clearly without personal attack, vague complaints not relavent to the argument at hand or exaggerations that hurt the other person.

On the other hand there is learning how to fully listen and with empathy.  This involves giving he other person point-of-view on a disagreement full attention instead of preparing a retort.

When we as a society can learn such habits early on, many harmful marital mistakes can be prevented when learn skills.


2. Setting Boundaries of Physical Involvement

Basic communication and relational skills needed to teach about maintaining one's chastity reinforces sexual boundaries.

Reverend Moon states that a wise person clearly states exactly their parameters regarding physical contact and exclusivity before one enters into a close relationship with the opposite sex.

It is necessary, first of all, to define what purity or abstinence is which represents technically avoiding physical intercourse and even discourages having any sexual arousal.

When one chooses chastity, it respects that sexuality largely involves the mind and heart.  The body has such a measure of power that it is not easy to restrain if aroused.  This does not make an excuse to say that sexual instincts are out of one's control.

On the contrary, sexual instincts always respond to the instruction of the mind.

Once individuals reach beyond a certain point of touch and arousal, the body's natural progression toward intercourse becomes increasingly difficult to stop.

Those serious about keeping their purity should not place themselves in situations that can lead to intercourse.

“It’s tough being a musician,” confesses 26-year-old Richard Kaweesa, a Ugandan who has maintained his chastity. “You are prone to temptations, with all these girls coming after you. They want to know you, where your hotel room is. [But] it’s up to you . . . . We are not victims of our environment.”

To make a true commitment to purity means knowing ahead of time the pressures to go past those boundaries and preparing a response.  These take learning resistance skills.

She is a smart teenager or single adult who has practiced how to explain her purity standard to her friends and to members of the opposite sex interested in her.

He is also wise who has planned 'escape' measures when he finds himself in a difficult situation such as house full of drinking friends who are getting sexually involved or being alone with an aggressive, attractive young woman.

One will not be able to protect their purity unless he or she plans how to defend the boundaries they have set when temptation comes.


Challenge for engaged couples

One mistake couples make is setting boundaries according to what stage of commitment they are at.

The closer to the wedding, the further they allow themselves to go. “We’re almost married,” they tell themselves, “it will do no harm.”

Yet, a couple dissipates their moral authority and the power of their love and imperil their purity when they go too far with the boundaries they set.

Too many couples break their engagement when they succumb to intercourse as a direct result of compromising their own promise they made to themselves, each other and God.

“I’m glad that my wife and I never gave in to the pressure to get too physically involved before we got married,” says one young man, 30.

“I realized later that because I respected her and our prior agreement, she has no qualms about me going away on business trips. She trusts me. And I trust myself too, though I am still careful. I’m proud of what we did.”

We can explain sexual commitment through the use of financial analogy.

As couples begin to talk of commitment, they begin saving more and more money to prepare for their future together.

This approach can be taken wisely with sex.

As couples become more serious about marriage, they are smart to become even more careful in regards of physical affection, holding off in order to invest more in the bonding and excitement of their marriage.

The highest standard is to avoid touching one another altogether and let the anticipation mount towards they day they get married.

This is the secret behind traditional practices that forbid touching upon their engagement announcement: not to deprive a couple but to enhance the love and pleasure.

Our modern society does not value innocence and the sexual joy that is the fruit of one keeping their virginity and vows of lifelong love is not appreciated, yet it is the strongest.


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

5 Myths About Sex Part I

In order to give credibility to the timeless sexual ethic in the present world, the prevailing mindset to have permissive sex needs to be refuted with sound arguments.

These facts need to be based upon good reasoning and contemporary research.



1. Is Sex a Primal Need?


The first misunderstanding about sex is that it is a need and an entitlement.

This is the foundation for all the other wrong assumptions about promiscuous sex because it carries a certain moral imperative: since sex is needed for people to be physically and mentally healthy, then it is unfair to deny them.

Therefore, since people think sex is a must, then it does not matter if one is married, young or have other concerns.

Plus, there is a moral pressure for the person who does not want sex by the one who claims they need sex to yield to their desires.

Now, because society believes sex is healthy and normal, the person who resists sexual advances have to explain themselves.

Because of this belief, many single people and even children pursue sexual involvement earlier.  Also, they do so in insecure situations they may not have been inclined to do.

Obviously there is no sexual ‘need’ - there is not one shred of scientific evidence that sexual inactivity causes a threat to anyone’s health or well-being.

No one has ever received medical treatment because of celibacy. 

On the other hand, there is mounting evidence of people being treated for sexual excesses and sometimes are told to be abstinent as their therapy.

This sexual ‘need’ is actually being confused with the need for genuine love.

Even though the human body desires to connect to another body, any other body, the heart has the need to connect to another heart, to love and be loved as an irreplaceable person.

This is actually what is necessary for the mental and physical health of a person, not sex.

Studies show that infants who lack attention or touch from caregivers perish and spouses often die of a broken heart soon after their partner passes away.

The specific need of adults is for the experience of marital love. 

Our spirit craves the sanctity of marriage for the emotional and spiritual rewards.

Sex is only one dimension of what is needed and desired.  The idea that sex is a need came from the distorted ideas of Freud.

Research shows that three percent, which is more than a hundred thousand, have been celibate throughout their whole lives and that millions worldwide have kept their virginity until the age of thirty and beyond without any ill effects.

Infidelity in marriage is the great exception.

When there is no opportunity for sex, the interest for sex has been known to drop down to zero.  Many married couples find themselves needing to schedule time to make love because they are too busy or forget the need.

Therefore, the ‘need’ for sex is not on the same level as the need for food or sleep.  If one neglects the need for food, this need asserts itself within a matter of hours and becomes stronger the longer it is deferred.  It does not lessen.

“Sex is a natural urge, but the role it plays in your life and the importance you attribute to it . . . is a matter of free choice,” concludes psychologist Peter Koestenbaum.

Sex researchers Masters and Johnson have stated, “In one respect, sex is like no other physical process . . . (it) can be denied indefinitely, even for a lifetime.”

Being abstinent can represent a redirection of erotic impulses.

Even though one may be married, they must maintain a large measure of self-control when their spouse is ill, pregnant, menstruating, busy at work or involved in the demands of being a parent.

The belief that sex as a “need” is oppressive.






It is oppressive for people to believe that the need the physical gratification of sexual impulses.

Sexual compulsion and exploitation of women increases.  It makes it hard for those  who are immature and weak to refuse their own or someone’s else’s sexual ‘need’.

Because of such a notion of need, then children and married people begin to doubt themselves if they do not have a desire for sex as much as they are pressured to have.

Therefore, they vulnerably push themselves into sexual involvement earlier and in an unsecure situation.

Teenagers speak of virginity as something they are happy to finally get rid of as there is a lot of pressure to do so.

It is very tragic that such innocence and authentic need for a committed love are often sacrificed on the altar of a physical ’need’.




2. Is One Partner for Life Unnatural?

The second mistaken notion of sex: It is natural to have many sexual partners.

This is because humanity compares their actions on the same level as animals.  Animals are not monogamous creatures.

Such people speak from evolutionary terms about the need to propagate the species through having many sexual liaisons.

From this viewpoint, people see monogamy and marriage as almost an impossibility.  They think that to withhold sex is contrary to our genetic makeup.

Despite what evolution has taught, humans differ from animals in obvious ways.

First, sex among animals is a seasonal matter and driven by instinct for just the sake of reproduction.

On the other hand, men and women enjoy a physical union more frequently than animals and the sake of pleasure between the two.

Secondly, animals come together without discrimination in regard of who their partner is.

In contrast, humans are spiritual beings with a need for meaningful and lasting love, but also to be loved as a specific and whole person.  Humans also need this love to be returned.

Thirdly, children require many years of parental investment in order to thrive.  This is unlike primates.

The kind of love which a child needs affects his resilience and capacity for being a great contribution to society.

When parents do not properly take care of their children, this does not make sense even from a species-survival mentality.

It is natural for men and women to bond for life to care for each other and the children they have.

Many other mammals take care of their young.

When those compare themselves to animals who have multiple partners, this evidence refutes this matter.

Therefore, those who have a tendency to get involved in temporary sexual liaisons because of immaturity, bad conditioning and because of the Fall.

Humans have the natural tendency to let the body dominate the mind.  This is not a ‘natural’ state from God or even evolutionary traits.


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

Where is the School of Love?

Why is it that something as love which is vital to human life as breathing, the ability to give and receive does not come to us naturally?

Rather, true love must be taught, learned and practiced. Humans spend many years as immature, dependent children who have to learn how to act in the world and then provide for themselves.

Schools, teachers, masters of trades and parents teach them skills, but there is no formal school or system that teach people how to love and be loved.

Left without instruction on the proper way to love centered on God, people are left floundering, having to learn about love through painful trial and error.

We have witnessed science and the arts flourish rapidly throughout the centuries, yet our wisdom about love and relationships grows slowly at best and unevenly.

Pitirim Sorokin, a sociologist at Harvard, expressed his chagrin at “our enormous ignorance of love’s properties, of the efficient way of its production, accumulation, and distribution.”

We are living the era to remedy all the love ails by studying about and educating for true love.

Even though to love and be loved properly is one of life's most daunting challenges =, it is essential more than any other aspect of life people work hard to achieve.

Psychiatrists have been visited by high-powered professional people who break down in their offices because they are at a complete loss when it comes to their most important personal relationships. 

Despite all of their qualifications and accomplishments politicians, business executives and celebrities find that their wealth, power and talent fail when they are faced with the demands of love.

Therefore, to study the true way of life begins with a life lived in true love. Only after people are well-versed in the nature and practices of true love will they find a path to follow that will satisfy the human longing for true love.

The most precious philosophy is to live for the sake of others.

—Sun Myung Moon

For people to live in love, they need to understand it.

It is utterly difficult to define love.

The ancient Greeks divided love into different categories, describing features of each.

For example, 'eros' was an impassioned romantic attraction; 'eunoia' stood for general benevolence or good will; 'xenlike' represented kindness to the guest or stranger; and 'agape' love which defined as an unselfish affection for others. 

Agape love became a keystone of Christianity. It is recognized by all the faiths of the world. Buddhism calls agape love 'compassion', Hinduism and 'human-hearedness' or jen in Confucian thought.

Additionally, there are all kinds of love found within the family:

There is devotion of parents toward their children, the children's affection which is reciprocated. Siblings care about one another in a unique special way, and there is the love between spouses which is a world in itself.

Grandparents have a profound regard for their grandchildren.

All these types of love have their distinct features.

There should be an all-around definition for love that encompasses all types of loves and form.

Reverend Moon states that true love is to live for the sake of other people. Within this definition, love that is not true is weeded out. Love that is deceptive and lead people to despair rather than joy are left out when defining what true love is.

True love is other-centered.

Why was humanity necessary?

We were created to completely fulfill His love. Love is the reason that humanity are the supreme creation.

True love only happens in relationship to others. Even God required an 'other' in order to fulfill His love.

God created humanity as His love partners who will share in the glory of His creation.

Even though God is almighty, He needed an object, someone to share in the creation with. God also needs a relationship in order to experience love fully.

If God is so, so must be His creatures.

As author Sherwood Anderson said, “Two oddly sensitive human atoms” find one another, cling together and think, “Here is this other.”

A love that satisfies is only possible when in the presence of another person. The Bible emphasizes the love others in the presence of others. The Old Testament testifies to the greatest commandments which were to love God and love one's neighbor as one loves themselves.

Jesus echoed this truth by telling his followers to not come to the altar of God if they quarrel with their brother in their heart. They had to set things right between their 'brother' before approaching God.

Jesus later pronounced that God only forgives those who forgives others.

Jesus told his people that when two or more were gathered in his name he would be present. He was implying the need for believers to seek communion not only with God, but with one another as well.

Loving others is always in couplet with loving God well.

The prophet Muhammad stated that on the day of judgment, God the most high will say, “Son of Adam, I was sick and you did not visit Me.” 

The son replied how could he visit the Lord when he was the Lord of the Universe. God replied, “Did you not know that My servant such and such was ill and yet you did not visit him? Did you not know that if you had visited him you would have found Me with him?”

Russian thinker Vladimir Solovyov said that love “forces us with all our being to acknowledge for another the same absolute central significance which, because of the power of our egoism, we are conscious of only in our selves . . . shifting the very center of our personal lives.”

Reverend Moon refers this shifting of center from self to others as a 'revolution'. He holds that such a revolution toward true love is necessary for happiness and peace in the world.

Modern culture says that love is a spontaneous feeling within a person's heart toward one another when in fact, ethics figure prominently in successful and loving relationships.

Upon further examination, it is shown that ethics enable true love and love that is based on feelings alone is dangerous.

If a man feels that he has truly fallen in love with another woman, he will leave his wife and children for her. He will leave emotional devastation in his wake in the pursuit of false feelings.

A teacher may feel that they are romantically attracted to a young student and end up causing psychological damage to the student for life when they approach them sexually.

Psychologist M. Scott Peck points out, “Many, many people possessing a feeling of love and even acting in response to that feeling act in all manner of unloving and destructive ways.”

In order to benefit the other, true love adheres to ethical principles.

Even though a truly loving person does not feel benevolent feelings toward another person, he will behave benevolently to someone based upon principles.

Such a person will be kind to a spouse even when the other is being surly because the person believes in kindness even when the other is not evoking such feelings.

Such a person believes in preserving and protecting marriage itself.

A person who helps a homeless man on the street is a person who believes in treating one's fellow human beings with compassion even if society does not see such a person as reputable.

To love a person who has harmed others means having a belief that all people can be redeemed, including the reprobate.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook, Educating for True Love, Chapter 1 written by a team of writers to explaining Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon's thoughts on morality, society and Family.

Why Parents Love Their Children

Have you ever wondered what would have happened if Adam and Eve had never fallen?  They would have been able to get all of God's blessings.



by Rev. Sun Myung Moon




They would have been in a position for God to wish them blessing, instead they angered and hurt God beyond belief and curses and sins had entered the world of humanity ever since.

The love of God was the most valuable one among all of the blessings.  The next blessing is to inherit the right of  creation from God.

God felt great happiness after He created Adam and Eve.

God gave humanity the responsibility, the right of creation and a chance to be happy at their creations.  When a couple has children, they get the chance to experience the joy God experienced when He created Adam and Eve.

Why can't you help loving your children?  This is because we inherited this great work of creation from God.  Therefore, we feel the same happiness as God does and we inherit God's right of creation and God's love.

Since man is born because of love, they have the destination to live by love and go back to his father for love.

Since all men originated from the seed of love of their father, then man has to put forth his beautiful branches to the world and make a lot of relationships with others to harvest the seed of love.  This is the responsibility of man on this earth.

This seed of love contains every element of love for wife, parents, children and Heaven.

Man lives as the seed lives.

God gave man life to harvest such an outcome on earth.

Then, after fulfilling their responsibility, God will reap men.  Why is it that parents sacrificially love their children more than children love the parents?

This is because parents are in the vertical range of love to their children and they are vertically connected to each other.

Even animals naturally sacrifice their lives for the sake of their young so they can establish a vertical relationship of love.

Also, man must also build the vertical relationship of love even at the cost of their life. Their life is in the horizontal position.

A husband and wife are in a horizontal relationship with each other.
 

They are also required to love God more than they love their own parents.


Love is in the vertical position while the love of husband and wife is in the horizontal position.

When they keep loving each other, the they establish a horizontal relationship with each other.  In the same way, parents should love their children more than they love their partner.

Then this creates vertical love. Without doing so, it is impossible to make the vertical love.

It is said that Parents should love their children as they love God.  By centering on the parents and God, then the family, tribe, race, nation and world will be connected to the other.  This is the beginning of World Peace.

The word 'relationship' only makes sense when there is a a relative object and a subject make a mutual relationship with each other.

The subject and object partners need to have something in common or else they cannot make a relationship.
When you desire something, you want something better than what you already possess.  A subject and object both pursue something better together giving and receiving each other.

In giving and receiving, giving is more valuable than receiving. 

A subject and object give and receive for the greater purpose.

No one gives or receives something that causes damage.  Parents do not love their children based on getting some reward, but so they can love their children on a higher spiritual level in every way.

Parents love their children because they hope to reach a greater standard and goal of life.  Parents love their children with hopes that they will be needed by the people, the nation and the world and an even greater being.

They also hope their children become people they, the parents themselves can need.

Parents do not love their children just for their own sake, but for something greater.  This is parents' love toward their children.

Children are a reflection of their parents.

Sons and daughters are born in their parents' love, therefore, they are like one body with their parents.

Parents can't help but love their children because their children are a reflection of their parents themselves.  You life and your parents' life are mingled with love.

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This speech is rewritten and derived from “Raising Children in God's Will”

A Prayer for Your Life of Faith

Beloved Heavenly, Father, I thank You for Your grace, and for shielding me while I experience struggle from my childhood until now.  During those years, I have been apprehensive of any humiliation or shame that Heaven might suffer.

There is nothing among all the good things on this earth more precious than connecting to Your original heart.

Knowing this, we should eternally have a longing for that relationship with You.

We should keep in mind that those who experience Your love will have no regrets, even if they forget about all the things of this world.

We must now seek the ideal world which You created, the original homeland where we live by Your love.

We must prepare today while on earth for our third life as liberated children endowed with the authority of freedom.

Just as we needed to be healthy in the womb in order to be born with a healthy life on earth, we need a wholesome earthly life to have a wholesome life in heaven.

The world today is a world of conflict dominated by evil.  

We must be resolved to fight to the death in order to be blessed with the cooperation of heaven and earth and to keep in step with the dynamics of fortunes of the universe.

We must resolve that our descendants will never have to be placed in such a sorrowful position as we have been suffering under the dominion of sin.

Beloved Father, when we reflect on how you have toiled to usher in a new spring, we should become Your infinitely grateful and joyous daughter and sons who lament over the fact we could not offer our entire life and love to You.

In our predestined relationship with You, our lives were meant to be harmonized, and completed by You so that we too may greet the new spring.

Only when we greet spring for the first time is when the flowers bloom.  Just as flowers go through summer and autumn before bearing fruit and blooming, we too are to undergo a similar process to bear fruit.

For a tree to bear any fruit, it absorbs life elements through the roots, trunk and branches in the summer.

There, it concentrates a perfect life to bring forth a second life.

Similarly, we must become sons and daughters who are introspective and determine whether we have a life for which swells up in our hearts capable of rebirth in a new world even if our bodies should die.

No matter how much time passes or how much the storm rages, our inner life force must withstand the intrusions of the environment and persevere persistently on the path of growth.

Only in this way, can we welcome the new spring and become a seed, that is the original source of a second life, which can be planted again.

Even though we may look pathetic externally, if we maintain our value as the original essence that can enhance the spiritual life force as a seed that can be planted in the eternal world, we are no longer miserable people even though we may think we are.

Please allow us to realize that the more miserable we appear, the more the value of our internal selves becomes complete and guaranteed..

Father, we realize that if we do not have the desire to serve and bow humbly before You, we can have no relationship with You in the eternal world.

Please, open the doors of our heart to feel Your heart and hear Your voice welling up from the depths of our hearts.  Guide us to regain our lost bodies today.

Father, help us to appreciate Your historical course of toil and trouble to find each of us that we can then humbly bow our heads before You.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the book Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Five, Chapter One, Section 1, 1-4

 

Why We Should Live Eternally

Do you believe that we will live for eternity after we shed our bodies on earth? Many movies about vampires is appealing to those who have the desire to live eternally on earth.

But who wants such restrictions of a non-living body that can only come out at night and feed off of the blood of others?

For those who are religious, it is commonly accepted that there is a life after this one, and has a much better ideal than a night creature tale.

What kind of creature did God create human beings?

He created us as the objects of His love who is able to posses His absolute and unique value.  This is an amazing fact, unfortunately, how much value is placed on a person these days?  We have practically been reduced to a worth of a few pennies.

Originally, God's children were to have much more worth.  Their value was so precious that life could not be exchanged even for the entire universe.

People are born from, live in, and die in love. However, they do not just disappear.

Since God as the subject being is eternal, thus, human beings who are his objects of love who stand in front of Him should also live eternally.  From this point, the theory of life after death, or eternal life originated; it did not begin with life.

What kind of person is a true person?

A true person receives love completely in the position of God's child by becoming one with Him inside and out.

We can say that the way of life of people in step with God is the way of a true life.

All people desire the best, no matter what position they have.

When  you are able to reach the highest position, God belongs to you, and you belong to Him.  Then you become God's child and you become God Himself, thus, even the universe belongs to you.

If there is something that God loves and treasure most, would God have made it where it was easily thrown away after 100 years or spent just a day with it?  God invested all of Himself in humanity because we were to live with Him eternally.

We are the object partners of God who can feel joy from us in absolute love.  If God were to have such a liking for them for one or two days, or hundred years and throw them away thereafter never to think of them again, this is not true love.

The more you love someone, the more you want to be with that person.

Is there a man who will remain single for life after his wife died.  He would carry her handkerchief in remembrance.  Nehru of India had lost his wife when she was young. He wore a rose the rest of his life because his wife loved roses.

Since God did not create such complex beings to be cast away out of existence, there must be a basic principle that human beings live eternally.

We must stand on the foundation of an action where a stronger power can , in order to live eternally emitted.

The more love is given as the days pass, the more love that is given back and received, rather than depleting.  The power of love becomes stronger and greater.

Life will not end only in happiness but can expand to an unlimited happiness.

This world is the nation that we have come to idealize where God dwells.

Do you want eternal life?

Perhaps you only mildly wish for eternal life.  If you have something precious, you will bring it with you when you seek refuge.  You would not stop being proud of it after a day or two.

When it is time for you to pass onto the next world, you will want to leave this precious treasure to your descendants for eternity.  That is the same for God.

Since God is an absolute, eternal being, then His object partner He can love should also live eternally.  That is why people have longed for eternal life since time cannot remember.  Therefore, the Absolute Being cannot help, but look for a loving son and daughter who possess the value of eternal life.  We humans resemble God as His masterpiece.

Since God is eternal and we also have an eternal nature, our heart does not become old.  Have you ever thought about your heart aging or not?

Therefore, human beings should live eternally. Only when they can live eternally, can they have the value of existence as that masterpiece.

Therefore, human beings are the lords of creation.  Spirit comes from this place.  Human beings should live eternally, therefore, we cannot just think of our existence ends after 100 years.

Living for the sake of eternal life

People live however they want in their own way centered on their own thinking, not God's

Living means your everyday life.

Lifetime means your entire life.  Furthermore, religious people use the same word 'eternal life'.  Eternal life means not a lifetime but a life that continues eternally.

Eternal life means a life that continues eternally.  Then it is important how you connect on your life course with eternal life.  Doing so is your life responsibility.  A lifetime determines through linking each day to the next.  Your entire life is the sum of continuous days in your life.

What content determines if your whole entire life was determined to be value?  It is not determined after you have gone through all your life well?  This means we purposely live the days which represent the entire course of your life.  If you say you have lived life well today, it means that it was memorable day in your life, that you can be proud of.  When you say that you lived well, tat day would surely be the most valuable day in your entire life course.  If you were to see a day that you could live with value, it would be an unforgettable day in your life as well.

What is the theory of eternal life?

God is wise.  If God did not create the ideology for love, He would be alone and depressed for eternity; He would be a god who could not feel joy, anger, sorrow or happiness.

God, who has lost this absolute love through the fall has stood in a serious, appalling and absolutely miserable position that no one has ever experienced throughout history.  No one was there to comfort Him the moment that all of His creation and children were taken from Him.

God is not satisfied with just recreating an ideal shape and form of His dreams and then resurrecting His original son and daughter whom He desires.  He should be able to decorate the ideal more brilliantly and express it beautifully as He travels great distances while embracing that ideal.  That is how He created the entire universe.

When the atmosphere falls into an absolute low pressure area, then a high pressure area is automatically created which brings about a circulatory movement. God is the King of wisdom, and greatest scientist.

The theory of eternal life is an logically foundation, because the eternal circulation beings through that principle of automatic circulation.  When you invest, invest, and invest some more, the theory of eternal life will begin.

Those who live for the sake of others will not perish.

God's eternal object partner we allude to the ancient saying, "Among all creation, human beings are the most precious."  This brings about the longing for the partner of love who unites with the Creator's eternal love where He lives forever.

Eternal life is the natural product of this theory.  Eternal life begins from this point.  Based on the relationship of love, how to establish a theory of eternal life is the problem which sets up an precious debate in religion.
Eternal life cannot be found in either the man or the woman.  Eternal life is not even found in God, but it is only found in love.

The most important issue of eternal life

Modern Christianity states that if you just believe in Jesus, then you automatically attain eternal life.

In order for one to be able to live for eternity, one must carry on with a continuous action.  In order to walk the path of life eternally, the circulation system such as the veins and arteries of the heart should function normally.

Also, all of the nervous system and all the actions of the cerebrum should also function normally.  This requires a tremendous amount of consumption to keep this in working order.

When it is time for you to go to bed after you take off your shoes, are you confident that you will be there to put them back on again in the morning?  No matter how busy you say you are, there is nothing in this world that is more important than the issue of eternal life.

Only, we have been inundated throughout our entire lives with unnecessary trivial happenings that we  do not place much importance on the life hereafter.

Either way, there is not quest in this material world that is more serious than to resolve the problem of eternal life.

Ultimately, human beings must return to eternal life

We each has the responsibility to dissolve the problems of the Fall by establishing the way of True Parents' love who have laid a strong foundation based on Jesus' path, who have reversed the mistakes of the Fall and passing it on to humanity.

Only after we establish a family of true love over which God can reign, can you go straight to heaven.  When we see the reality of the path of restoration, we do not spend our life on earth wasted on trivial matters.

The rails of God's Kingdom on earth and in heaven must all be the same.  A train can run only when the rails are the same.  In the same way, in the heavenly world, there must be the path which connects God's Kingdom on earth with His kingdom in heave; this is the path of true love.

Consequently, the path of an individual takes, and then the path of a family takes.  These two should be connected and then their direction be consistent with each other.

Therefore, everything we do in our lifetime, becomes a permanent fastened to his rear end as a record of how well we have performed for the sake of true love.  Thus, when a person passes to the spirit world, he comes to dwell at the same level which corresponds to the achievements he left behind in his lifetime.

Faith and the issue of eternal life

How does one live for eternity?

You can only be saved through love.  Only a true woman can be God's partner in love.  Therefore, if someone has true love, he must be able to live for eternity.  Once you enter the realm of that love, whether you are in the spirit world or on earth, you must come to know where you should live.

Even rats of a ship know to escape to dry land.  Even though they are small creatures, they can distinguish which is the right way to take and go in that direction when faced with matter of life and death.

Why have humans who were created to become the lords of all creation, come to be as corrupt as they are?  It was because of the Fall.

How are you going to remove this mask of the Fall or free yourself from the devil's love, life and lineage?

To free yourself means to break free from something holding you back from life.

We need to completely break free from and stand in the position to have no relations or common base with Satan.

A mother in her nineties will tell her seventy year old son to be careful of the cars, and be safe.  She can say this until she reaches the ripe age of ninety.  She will not get tired of saying it even if she were to continue for eternity.

What is the motivating power behind a mother's careful warnings?  It is love. If parental  love is like that between fallen people, what would our life be like if we were able to belong to God's true highest love in His original world?

When we are able to reach the state, then the realm belonging to the true object of God can be established for the first time.  When we come to know that God's love is eternal and unchanging, we can validate the theory of eternal life centering on our human love.  We live eternally centering on love.

 

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This post was derived from the book Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Five, Chapter One The Existence of Human Beings, Section 5

To Go to a Higher Realm in Spirit World

This sounds like an easy question, but what is truly the difference between those who are religious and those who are not?

Simply put, religious people believe in setting a standard of how they will live in the higher realms of spirit world their entire lives. In other words, they live their to set up a good life in the other world.

Religion begins from making a decision that you will live with God and meet in the future and living a life that leads to this reunion.

All religions teach substance of discipline, but do not dwell deeply in the details of how to live in society.  Content was taught about substance relating to the eternal, spiritual world based on the realm of God's existence.



The determination of proprietary rights in the spirit world

During this speech, Reverend Moon, reminisced about the days when he had to shiver in a cold room and sometimes go without eating even a measly meal.

He said in those days, he was closer to God.  During those times, he and church members, worried about the nation and the world, even though they did not have any position in the world to do so.

As the foundation they laid grew, they begin to care more about how to attract more people to work for the dispensation of bringing about world peace.

Father knew that knowledge, power or money was a means to bring people to hear such things, but these qualities soon wash away and the things they attract with it will disappear as well.

When we die, no matter how much of these things you acquire in life, you have to leave them behind.  All that you can carry with you to the other side is how much you expand God's love to the world.

The only record that remains in the end is how much you loved humankind and God.  This becomes the standard to decide what you own in the next world.

Every person born on earth came to this world alone, but we cannot go alone.

We must take a lot of people with us.  How many people you witness to God decides how much property you own in spirit world when you get there.

There are no signs that you wear that shows that you were a glorious leader on earth.

Love people

What is important to know is that if you did not have God's love while on earth, you cannot eat when you get to spirit world.

Spirit world is based on the life of living for another person.  The selfish individualism we witness here in society is based on the sinful, archangel's false life and false love, not God's original world.

Hell is in the opposite direction of God's ideal.  It is a place where people only can see food and good things but cannot touch or eat them.  They will have knowledge of circumstances, but will not be able to act upon them.

It is a literal eternal prison where limits and boundaries are abundant.

Yet, if one is able to live a life on earth that is centralized on God's love and is able to have a balance of good spirit world and physical world and live heaven on earth, they will automatically enter heaven in spirit world.

Others who do not live this way or do not unite their good mind to command the evil body centered on God, will not be qualified to go there.

What can we be proud of when we go to the spirit world?


When you enter spirit world and God asks you what did you do with your time on earth, would you be able to brag to him that you spent a lot of money while on earth?

Your pride in front of God on that day will be that you have lived longing for and loving people.  You lived for others to reach the temple of God.

Love God even more

The only thing that is necessary in the other world is to love God more than you love the world, nation, your spouse and your children.

This is the Principle.

When you go to spirit world, will you be able to earn a living or do you do nothing but sleep for hundreds of millions of years?

The answer is neither of these.  According to the standard you acquire while on earth, determines how free you will live in spirit world.  Therefore, a life lived for others allows you to move freely throughout spirit world and have the freedom to eat anytime you want.

Establish the family foundation

Why do we need to have children?

Surely because love is present.  Since God exists, man and woman exist, husband and wife exist.

Next, the descendants are born with God's blood, His love blood.  Here the vertical(heavenly) and horizontal(earthly) blood is mixed.  Therefore, if you are not able to have such children, you will not have a place to rest or play in the other world.

Do you think a couple can have true happiness, if they are just staring at each other face to face for 80 years?  There is a limit to this happiness.  They will be unable to live an interesting full life in this way.

It is necessary to be a daughter-in-law and have grandchildren.

There is no greater happiness for grandmothers and grandfathers than holding their grandchildren.  Those who are unable to have grandchildren, they will not be able to achieve harmony with heaven and earth or be able to keep in step with north, south, east and west in spirit world.

Once you experience many delightful experiences in spirit world, life here on earth is dull in comparison.

If you open your eyes to spirit world, you can see it and eat meals there spiritually while you are still on earth. When you reach this standard, you will never go hungry, even if you do not eat all day.  Your body will feel light and you will never get tired even if you run around all day.

So, why did God even create this world, if living in spirit world has no limits that are experienced on earth?

It is necessary to live on earth in order to give birth to children.  Once you reach spirit world, children are no longer born.

Because you are required to take your whole family with you in order to go to heaven, you have no other choice but to stay this way.

Live centered on the tradition of the realm of the heart

Do you think that you will attend church services while in spirit world?  Will the teachings of religion be necessary in the next world?

It will not.  Catholicism, Buddhism, Christianity will not be necessary.

You will be in the realm where you will be living with God, so religion teaches how to live with God and will be unnecessary.

What will be necessary?

The most precious gift is to be able to receive God's love.

We speak a lot about the realm of heart.

Where is the base?

The world of heart is where there is parental love, true conjugal love and true fraternal love centered on God's love where it can be universally expanded.

In the original world, the conjugal love or love of spouse centered on heaven and earth and the cosmos of a husband and wife is primary.  Instead, the husband and wife living for the sake of one another without a center or base became primary.

Conjugal love is important to practice, but it must be centered on the world.  Our most important question is where do we build and find the foundation of love that meets the standard in that world.

We are working to build that foundation in this world because of that.  We are the only place that has started to build this kind of foundation out of all the different religions.

So, what do we teach?

We teach people how to be successful candidates in the coming world of heart.

When you go pass to spirit world you will meet many people who love their race, you will find many couples, patriots and loyal subjects and saints.  But what about those who have lived centered on the tradition of God's original realm of heart.

The pass with which to enter the spirit world

From now on, when you start something, do it based on God.

This is a basic principle.  You are connected to all realms in spirit world based on how much you lived in accord with or have assimilated that principle.  This is from the realm of hell through the middle realm to paradise and heaven.

Does a person go to heaven when he enters spirit world just because he is a world-famous scholar?

No, he cannot.  This is why religions teach how to deny everything and go forward.  You have to give up everything and go the true way of life.  That is the logical way.

Then what is most precious?  What matters most is how much you have suffered for heaven and how much tears you shed for the world.  That is the ticket to pass through to the other world.

From God's point of view, do you think He feels a lot of joy when He sees a couple centering on themselves leaving Him abandoned?  The ones who think such a way do not have the right thinking or any common sense.

The main one that is the most sorrowful about the situation of the world is God.

His tears which He has suffered and shed until now were not for Himself.

God is still shedding tears for the universe which He created to glorify His children.

Why does God suffer?  Because He is a God of heart.

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This post was rewritten and derived from Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Five, Chapter 2, Section 3

Love is Boundless Giving

Love requires one hundred percent devotion.

God invested 100 percent of Himself when He was creating the universe through His love.

God created the world for humanity, so this is why true love begins with living for the sake of others.

Many atheists believe that God is a ruler that demands to be loved.  God is not a dictator.  God gave His all for human beings, His children.

God stays close to us because He wants to live for us.  This is also why we want to follow Him eternally.

The natural law is to live for the sake of others.  If we are to maintain our existence in the world, we must live in this way.

Only when we live our life for others sake can the connection be made between East and West and between past and present.

When you are able to give and then give again for the sake of others, this places you in the same position as God Himself at the time of creation.

By putting everything you have into something, you create a second self.

This is the same as God investing all of Himself during the time of creation.

God has invested Himself in the process of restoring mankind back to their original position.  The course of restoration through indemnity is the process for each of us to recreate ourselves into children before the Fall.

So, only when we invest everything you have can recreation take place.

The idea of eternal life operates solely when one invests again and again.  You will never come to ruin if you live for the sake of others.  From giving small things, you move on to giving bigger things.

Where does this finally lead?

It comes back to you.  

We still are not satisfied after we have given love.  Instead after you give, you want to give more.  Then you feel ashamed when you are unable to.

Those who feel ashamed even after giving truly are the owners of love.

Within the realm of love, the more you give, the more we receive in return.

The more we do this, the more the power of what we gave is exceeded by the power of what comes back.  In this way, you will never perish; rather you prosper.

There is no way to be prosperous without love.

Also, love can never be exhausted.

When it is set in motion, the greater it gets.  In the laws of mechanics, anything that is in constant motion becomes exhausted in time.

But in the case of true love, the more it is in motion,  rather than being used up, the greater it becomes.

This is the essence of love: when you live for the sake of others, your love becomes greater.  But when you want people to live for you, your love diminishes little by little.

So, what is true love?

It is giving, and then forgetting about what you have given.

True love is giving and giving and then giving some more.  This is a characteristic of God.

Even if you give and give and give, the world of love lasts forever.  The word 'love' is truly mighty.

There is a Korean saying, "One well-spoken word can clear away a large debt."  What that means is that with just one word of love, you can indemnify something even if you have a debt of billions of dollars.

The only power that has the authority to govern the universe of infinite magnitude is none other than the house of love.

Love comes from living for the sake of others.  Even God, the great almighty Creator, has to bow His head to  love.

Although God is almighty, He cannot fulfill love alone.  It can only be attained through a relationship with another.

So, where does love begin?

It does not begin from oneself; it grows and develops through a relationship with a partner.

Where is the root of true love kept?

Even the all-powerful God does not keep the root of love within Himself.  Even though He is the central figure of true love, He does not want to keep love within Himself.  He wants love to take root in the person who is the object of His love.

The more love you give, the more love you have.

You will have the reserve to give more love on a larger scale.  It never ends.

Everything else has an end: money, knowledge and authority all come to an end.  Everything that is connected to human circumstances and sentiment in the world comes to an end.

On the other hand, original true love never comes to an end, no matter how much you continue to give.

Love has such an amazing quality that it continues into eternity.  You cannot fulfill love centered on yourself.  Love does not begin from oneself.  Love begins and is fulfilled through one's partner in love.  Therefore, love cannot be fulfilled without a counterpart.

Even the greatest or wealthiest person in the world cannot attain love if he is alone.  Love is only formed in the relationship between a subject partner and an object partner.

Even the omniscient all-knowing God is unable to feel any stimulation if He attempts to achieve love  just for His own sake.  This is why we need a partner, this was the purpose of creation.

Human beings are the core of the universe.

The core of human beings is life.  The root of life is love.  The root of love is God.  But this love cannot be realized by someone all alone.

God is the origin of love. 

The only beings qualified to be partners in that love with God are human beings.

The word 'love, and the word 'hope' cannot be used in reference to someone who is alone.  Even life only comes through the bond of a relationship.

Life cannot come from being on one's own.

Life and love are the two things that lasts for eternity.  Which comes first?  Life or love.  For God, love did not exist before He did.  Love came to exist after God existed.

For God, love did not exist before He did.  Love came into existence after God existed.

For God, life comes first and love comes second.  But for human beings, love comes first and life comes second.

We were created to be the object partners to God's love and to have His absolute and unique value.

He created man and woman to enter with Him into a partnership of love.  Thereby we are given the greater value than that of even the whole universe.

We are born from love, raised in love and live in love until we die in love.

It is not as if they disappear.  Since the subject of love is an eternal being, unchanging and unique, when we stand before God as the object partner, we have to have the same eternal qualities of life.

God's purpose in creating Adam and Eve was to feel joy. 

This was not the kind of joy of just looking at them or touching or speaking with them.  This joy was based on love.  He created it for the attainment of joy.

Even though God is the Absolute Being, He needs another being to be His partner in love.  God of course had the authority and power to create beings that automatically loved and obeyed Him, but God gave the power to humanity to share with Him in the creation through giving them equal value as His partner in love.

Once human beings are perfected in love as His partner in love, then He becomes the God of happiness.  He is the God who has found His ideal of joy.

God's only dream was to realize the ideal of love.  However, God does not accomplish His dream alone.  Love, happiness or joy cannot be achieved by one entity.  These cannot be realized without a partnership.

Love only manifests from your partner.

When you think your partner is ugly, you dislike him or her and want to withdraw from them.  If the partner is beautiful and good, the dynamics of love are set off that much quicker.

In other words, the workings of love are determined by the qualities of those in partnership, such as their words, beauty, fragrance, and flavor.

Since love comes from the partner, we should bow down and live for that person.  This is why the law of nature instructs us to, "Live for the sake of others."

Since this precious and valuable gift comes to us, when we receive it we should practice the philosophy of living for the sake of others.

This means we must revere, value and live for our partner and spouse.

It is not without meaning that I am vibrant and active in many fields; I do so because I have a purpose. That purpose is none other than to realize the world of love. Human beings exist with the aim of realizing and attaining love. 


Since the purpose of life is to realize true love, our value of existence is also decided by this true love.

Everyone hopes that their partner will have thousands times value or infinitely more value than they have.  In the same way, God wishes for human beings, His partners in love to have infinite value.

Once someone reaches perfection, they achieve a divine nature.

Therefore, he becomes a flawless being as the Heavenly Father and attains the same value.  This was God's original ideal for His world of creation.

What is true love?

It is a love that moves you to want to stay with your partner for a thousand years.  That makes you want to love that person forever.  With such a love like this, there is no hell.  Satan will not be able to touch you or dominate you.

Who would God place as His absolute partner in love?  None other than human beings.

One who has become one with the eternal love of the Creator must also live forever.

This is an important issue for religion.

Religions must establish a logical understanding of eternal life based on a relationship of love.  Eternal life does not lie in a man or a woman.

It does not lie in God.  You must clearly understand that eternal life is in the love of God.

If there is no subject partner in love, you feel empty and lonely.  Isn't this true?

If there is a subject partner of love, then everything feels full and you feel infinite joy.

Only when something is filled to the brim with love can everything else be filled up as well.

You can then give out love infinitely and truly.

You give love with others in order to achieve an ideal and to multiply that ideal.  The world of love transcends distance.  Love is so fast that even light is unable to follow it.  It is the fastest thing in the world.  It is also the brightest and the most perfect.

Love is the only thing that fills things up completely.  Who is closer to the center:  one who is willing to sacrifice love to sustain life, or someone who is willing to sacrifice life for the sake of love?

Which person is closer to the truth?

The one who sacrifices his life in order to attain love is the one closer to the center.  He is what is true.

The one willing to sacrifice love for life is self-centered.  Whereas the one willing to sacrifice life for love is not.

As I wandered through the five oceans and the six continents, I preached earnestly about the path of love. I have sought to shine the light of love on all people, who, living without love, are like a desert. 

If we are ultimately headed toward that other world of love, the most important thing for humanity must be the "love beacon".  That beacon of love can lead humanity to the original homeland.

Once you become one with God, a circular motion manifests in all kind of forms and figures.  This is why the older sibling in the family must love the younger following the example of their parents in loving them.

In such a family that is united into loving oneness, the love within the family will blossom.

Then that love expands to  become the love within a society, and then the love within a nation.  This love becomes the love of the whole world.

Lost within the rapture of love, God created man to live forever.  People are born from love, live in love, and finally they are harvested as the fruit of love.

When you die, you are harvested as a fruit of love. 

We have lived receiving the love of our parents and our children.

After experiencing the love of a couple, we have loved our children as their parents.  Therefore, the love of God and everything we have sown in the inner world of love is to be brought to fruition over the course of our lives.

It is said that when you die, you do not take anything with you, but this is not completely true.

When we pass onto the next world, we will reap the fruits of the kind of life we lived on earth and take them with us.

God maintains life on the foundation of true love.

His omniscience and omnipotence should be based on true love.

Only then can He stand as the ideal subject partner for humankind.  He is the subject partner that transcended all history.

If He wants to be the subject partner with only the power of life, then all things of creation will not want to unite together with Him.

Even microscopic animals and plants wish for a master of love to tend to them and take care of them.  They would like to feel the touch of loving hands.

You should not say, "I'm stronger than anyone else, so you have to listen to me."

Only when love is involved is life set in motion.  The root of life begins in love. The basis for God's continued existence is not life, but love.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong Book, True Love Chapter 1 section 2