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.

The Character of Human Beings

For the last few posts, we have tackled the question of why an all-powerful God would need to create humanity.

First, it was so He could stand in the position as a true Parent, however God is invisible even in the spirit world.

God must have form to govern the physical world and to be the center.

In order to become the parent, He created humans who have form.

Once they unite, God could govern the world through his unity with God through love.

Secondly, reproduction cannot take place in the spirit world.

The vertical line is only one dimension, but a large area can unfold horizontally based on the vertical axis with a 360-degree perpendicular rotation.

Third, it was to maintain a position for His partner to have an eternal realm of love.

Adam and Eve would not have been God's only partners.

Their children would have stood in the same position of God's partners as their parents did.

Therefore, God produced people in order to preserve His partners in perpetuity.

God's purpose in creating humankind

Since Adam and Eve called their Father, then would their children call Him uncle or grandfather?

They, too would call Him Father.

The word 'partner' implies some kind of quality.  We must multiply God's love on the horizontally plane and perfect the value of perfected love which is one.  That is equality.

First, God needed a form or shape, He chose that of a parent.  He acquired that form in order to manifest Himself as Adam's spiritual father.

Second, God needed a center to build the citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven.  In that case, husbands and wives are factories.  With this analogy, would a mass production or small-scale production be best?  Mass production is best.

Through these factories of husbands and wives who are able to produce massive products for the Kingdom of Heaven, women were created to bear many children.

Human beings as the interface between spiritual and physical worlds

All of creation began with God at the center.  God made all things including mankind.  Through His creation of humankind, He wanted to be in oneness with them and all of creation in equilibrium.

God was to stand in the middle between humankind and the created world.  Therefore, perfected human beings would interface between the spiritual and physical worlds.

Body and mind, and spirit self

All beings exist according to this principle of objects revolving around the subject which is similar to the give and take action between the mind and body.

We must reset this axis in line when we go the way of restoration.  The cosmos consists of an invisible and visible axis.

What is the center of your body?

Your good mind.

We have both a mind and a body.

The body is supposed to revolve around the mind and it moves according to its commands.  When the mind directs the body to move swiftly, it will do so.

Likewise, it will move in the opposite direction.  The body should not move on its own whim and fancy.

But we see today, that the majority of the population is focused on catering to just the needs of their body's desires. We see how this leads to destruction.

Above our mind is our spirit and above our spirit is God. 

The only way we can perfect ourselves is to be completely one with God's will.

We must heed our mind's direction when they are searching for their destiny.  This is heavenly law.  Even though our bodies are finite, we represent all of history and the destinies of the future.  Therefore we possess cosmic value.

God strikes those who disobey their good mind's dictates.

All throughout history, God has been teaching us to conform to our conscience and not be ensnared by the evils of the materialism.

Does our conscience correspond to heavenly law absolutely 100 percent?  It does not because there are innumerable barriers that block it.

Before we can go through the gateway of heaven is a labyrinth of challenges.  The Chrisitianity terms this as the time of judgment.

We live where the current trend of thought is ushering a time of fear, insecurity and chaos seemingly without any solutions.  We should not allow material things to encumber us.  When God created humanity, He created us with a physical self and a spirit self. The spirit was supposed to be the center.

Complete motion and resonance

When two entities vibrate at the same frequency, this creates resonance.  Our internal self, which lives for eternity, plus our external self which is to live in the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, should be able to resonate centered on love.

In resonance, sound waves coincide and become intertwined while circling the center core.  Likewise, when the spirit self and the physical self harmonize with each other centered on God's love, the spiritual cells and physical cells engage in perfect motion together.

Therefore, when this resonance is created, our eyes become operational and can see everything in heaven and on earth.  This is because they are engaged in perfect motion.  A microphone's capacity is good and will resonate a hundred percent.  On the same token, if the physical self and the spirit self become one and attain a volatile state through love, then heaven and earth, God and everything else must resonate.




This mind and body unity applies to both men and women.





Since the mand and woman both have a physical and spirit self, together, they represent four entities.

On the other hand, when man and woman are divided and cannot come into unity, then they become four separate people.  Why would God create four people this way when there is such difficulty in their union?

Because originally, man and woman were to center on God's true love and they would achieve perfect unity.

We all possess a spirit self and a physical self.  The spirit self is invisible to our eyes, but it does exist. Then when do these two selves become one?  This is the problem.

It is the same with the tuning fork.  When you strike one of its prongs, then the other prongs vibrate at the same frequency.  When God's love acts upon our good mind, our body will automatically respond like the tuning fork's prongs. If this is how it is once mind and body unity is achieved, it is not God's wisdom, power, or might that will bring the two in resonance, but only through love.

What benchmark is your physical and spiritual senses longing to reach?

It is definitely not God's might nor His wisdom.  His love is the focus for everything.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the book, Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Five, Chapter One, section two.

Importance of the Love of Nature

Just imagine for a moment that you were God before the creation of anything. You are alone with no interactions with other beings and there is nothing to enjoy or look upon. Would you like to spend eternity in this state? So, from God's point of view, why do you think an all-knowing being needed to create things? It was so He could have an object partner and a realm of object partners to love.  They would eat and live in love and return to God's original world and eternal kingdom of love for eternity with Him. In other words, God needed a partner in order to feel the stimulation of love. Today, many religious people believe that because God is all-knowing and powerful that the world was created when simple words were spoken. They do not realize that the world was created in stages or different time periods that correlate to the six days of creation that are referred to in the Bible account in Genesis. God invested all of His being, all the energy He had to create the universe and all of creation. He did so as a gift for His beloved sons and daughters, His beloved family of the future by investing all the power of love He had. Thus, we should look at things of creation with this kind of understanding. God's will in creating the world  God experienced great joy when He was creating all things. After creation was complete, He said that it was good. This means there was joy.  Joy is what you feel when you have finally achieved a certain purpose.  Since all things contain God's consciousness of purpose, He was able to feel joy with them. The world of restoration will be a world that is populated with people who have a connection of heart where they can sing and praise God even when looking at an individual masterpiece of the creation. This is where God sees the value of personality. The story of Saint Francis preaching to animals animals is a dream-like story.  But it is a true story. Everything in creation is made by God as a textbook so that His beloved sons and daughters could learn and nurture the ideal of love. Through observation of penguins int he Arctic, we see how important community and family is to the survival and well-being of the family. By observing nature, we will not only learn about God, but also how to create the world of peace. Minerals function through a relationship of subject partner and object partner. Protons and electrons within atom relate on a subject-object relationship. Without interacting, these elements would cease to exist.  If they are not in motion, they cannot continuously exist. The universe was created to relate to the central point which is human beings. The universe is a mysterious world. God did not create the universe as something to fool around or play with.  He created using the most devoted efforts for the sake of his beloved people. So, when we look at this universe, we should have an extremely grateful heart toward the Father who created it for us. When you walk around a blooming garden in the summer, beholding the trees, plants, flowers, and birds and watch the streams flow, feel the wind blow with this heart of appreciation, you cannot help but be overwhelmed with wonder. Perfection of the universe involves the external and our innermost self to rejoice.  In rejoicing, both our mind and body must be joyful, and all the cells must be delighted. The cells of my eyes and those at the bottom of the feet are different, but this has to be a world where these cells, too, can rejoice. The cells in our hands and all the cells in our entire body including the mind can rejoice as well. While doing so, they should not stay separated but become connected in the resonant joy of love which is based on dual purpose.  Only then will the universe reach perfection. Connections start from extremely small things.  You are a living body which consists of as many as 400 trillion cells which are connected together. In the ideal world centered on God, among all of existence, there is none that came into being from outside God's heart. You are consisted of as many as 400 trillion cells connected together in your living body.  A poet who can feel these kinds of emotions for God's creation would be a great poet once he began to write a sonnet. If there were a poet who could feel and express a cosmic heart when seeing a leaf shake, he would thus become a poet of the universe. We may not know of all the phenomena that is unfolding in heaven and on earth, but without us knowing, there are things that exist together with God's love. When you enter a meditative state, you can see that even a small grain of sand contains all of the principles of the universe.  Even one small atom contains the bottomless and inexhaustible harmony of the universe. Even science cannot deny that all of existence is the result of a complex force, although we are unable to clearly understand it. Atoms exist below molecules and elementary particles exist below atoms. These forms do not exist below molecules and elementary particles exist below atoms. These forms do not unconsciously exist, but have a certain consciousness and purpose. Therefore, we should clearly and fully understand the fact that all things in existence appeared through the loving hands of God and exist in a necessary relationship of heart with God. What kind of people are the enlightened masters? They are those with a heart so deep that they recognize even the value of one stem of grass as equal to their own and can cry out "God!"  They would be of the highest level of enlightened masters. Those who can sing its value this way would be the artists of the highest caliber. If there are people with this heart that could allow them to discover the charm of God's love and heart in every variety of creation, in all their forms and colors, then befriend them and find enjoyment together, they would be the people who could represent the entire universe. If there were people whose cells could move one by one with this type of feeling, they would be the lords of creation. Conversely, if there is a person who knows about nothing but eating, can he become the lord of creation? Nature is a textbook teaching the ideal of love. People observe and learn from nature as they grow up. From playing with and interacting with nature, they will come to understand what the insect world is like.  When you listen carefully on an autumn night while the full moon and the stars shine, then the sounds of the insects are like an orchestra. Why do they like to make such a sound at night? They do so because they are looking for their ideal partners. They are whispering love throughout the night. Birds and all other animals also follow this same common denominator of love when they make happy and sad sounds. They are low on the scale and far away form the axis, and yet they are circling around in parallel.  This is the same for all existent beings. There are three types of bird songs. First, there is a song which expresses his hunger. Second, a song which expresses his love for a mate. Third there is a song which is sun in time of danger.  These are all different.  We ordinary people do not know this small detail about nature, but only know about their own world. Around what does a birds life revolve? Hunger is taken care of simply by eating, and they do not face danger everyday either.  Most of their singing goes back and forth in the give and take relationship with their partner. If you were to sit out on the porch one Sunday afternoon, you could catch the call of two birds separated on different trees exchanging bird calls. It is a beautiful sound. Human beings were also created as a pair - subject partner and object partner. The world of all things also exists for the sake of humankind, creates harmony under the law of love and then manifests its life and ideal through the love of humankind. This would have been the maturing Adam and Eve.  The created world of all things was to be a textbook of love, a museum that infinitely displayed the essence of love. All of nature exists in pairs and harmonizes with each other through love. Flowers and butterflies relate as two opposite poles, yet they find a way to harmonize with each other. This is the harmonious relationship of heaven and earth.  The opposite poles of the universe create harmony through love. It is the same with migratory birds. Birds that live in the south migrate north, and birds from the north migrate to the south, loving each other back and forth as they cross the regions. Through this, they are able to revolve around love. People learn about love through this textbook in the museum God created. When people and God love each other in joy, then all things in heaven and earth will follow their rhythm and harmonize around them. If God likes this, and loves this, the angelic world will also like it. The entire created world will like this, too. It would applaud and offer praise for such unity between mankind and God. Songbirds would sing praises and flower that blossom in the fields would offer praises through their scents. This created world exists in order to expand the fragrant atmosphere in which the central personages of the highest love can enjoy themselves.  Even large ugly toads make croaking sounds when they make love. They kick their legs and move them up and down while they delight in love.  This is the highest art which God created. When it is time for spring to come, whenever you hear the birds sing, as soon as you hear the song, you should think of your wife, your children, your country, the world and even God. When you think in this way, then everything is complete. Birds can only think of their own existence, but people have a sense of being in relationships with other people. This relationship in the human world is the mediator between the animal world, plant world and the spirit world as an exclusive privilege to human beings. Only human beings have this special authority. As Adam and Eve matured, they would have come to understand their purpose through observing the animal world.  They would have understood how to make love. God laid out the world of all things as a textbook for humans to understand how to bring the ideal of human love to maturity. As Adam and Eve continued to grow toward maturity they had different feelings toward each other. They knew that they were brothers and sisters in the past but now they have different feelings for one another. Love is like a nerve. It is the same as pulling on a strand of hair that pulls the entire body with it.  If we pull on the love strand, the universe itself is pulled along with it. As motion is created in love, the entire universe will come into harmony, too. When love is present, we dance. Is this how dancing came about? It was because of love.  So, when there is love, we dance.  It was through the experience of love. Songs came into being because of love and so did laughter. If love was to be taken away, everything would become hard and stiff. People like butterflies more than bees, because butterflies dance as they fly.  Everything which flies has a rhythm and a beat with a melody. Fast-flying creatures fly in time with a beat.  So do slow-flying ones. There are various styles of flight, but everything flies according to a certain rhythm. The way deer run and rabbits lay in the mountains is musical.  The way they hop around has a certain rhythm, too. The way they eat has a musical quality. This is the same for people.  We eat with a certain rhythm as well.  These all express something musically. If we think in this way, we should feel thankful to God that someone made this universe for me to last for eternity and put it in place for me.  We should feel grateful to Him. We should not think as an onlooker as if it has nothing to do with us, but understand the depth of creation. Photos Courtesy of freedigitalphotos.net Return for Tomorrow's Post: Reason Religious Conflict Continues This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook, Cheon Seong Gyeong Book three, 'True Love', Chapter Two, Section 9

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

Why God Can't Punish Satan

There is a theological debate whether Satan existed from the very outset.  This has caused a big problem.

If Satan had always existed and was part of God's plan for creation, his existence defies and hinders God's providence of restoring the world of peace for thousands of years.

Who is the one to subjugate and eliminate him?

This is the true issue.  Christianity upholds that Jesus liquidates all the sins of the past and the future that was to come, but even Jesus lost his physical body to Satan even though he was able to resurrect and bring a foundation for spiritual salvation.

Yet, every human being since has still been born with the original sin in his blood lineage.  Who will be able to finally accuse the one who brought sin to earth?

If Satan was not part of the creation of a perfect being, then where did he come from?

Satan caused our original ancestors to fall away from the true purpose of God which was to develop heaven on earth from the outset.

If Satan was part of the creation, then there is no way to get rid of him and have complete salvation.  This would create dualism forever.  People thus conclude that a world with two opposing purposes would continue forever.  Fortunately, this is not the case.

The reasons for Satan's accusations

The original will for the ideal world of creation was never fulfilled due to the Fall. However, since God has absolute authority, even though the whole world might change, He can never change.

Even though the devil took Adam, Eve and all creation away from God, the Absolute Being must subjugate Satan, who was originally an archangel, naturally rather than by force. 

Although God exists, it is as if He does not when we witness the chaos in the world. He has to re-establish His absolute authority. God cannot strike first. The good God cannot strike the evil Satan. 

Why is it God is tied from taking out Satan in one stroke?

Because if He was to do so, that act would end up also extinguishing Adam, Eve and the creation who are linked to him.  Through Adam and Eve obeying Satan's will instead of God's, they became connected to Satan in blood ties.

Thus, destroying Satan also destroys the ideal sphere of love.  That would be against God's own principle.

This is why God is prevented from doing so.

As absolute Lord, He must absolutely fulfill His will and do as He says would do.  Despite Satan's arrogance, attacks and tenacious persecution, still the Lord endured throughout history in order to recover His established principles.

Nobody has known of this almighty God.

If God cannot destroy Satan, why did He allow Satan to infringe upon human beings?  Why did He let His children be sacrificed and crushed under Satan's foot?

Why doesn't He stop the suffering Satan causes humanity?

Why was God unable to exalt His full power to such an extent that humanity does not recognize His existence?

This is a serious question.  The truth is, because humanity did not follow Him, He had no people, no nation, no world which to govern freely.

Therefore, no one has qualified to officially be recognized by Him as a true individual, family nation or world.

If such an individual, family nation or world was established, then God would be able to directly strike the evil people, nations and world.

Before this time, because humanity suffered through following Satan's will, to work with humanity, He had to face Satan's accusations of His children and work indirectly through angels and central figures.

Only this way will lead to goodness, and only then will God have His authority.

Will you completely conquer Satan in your life?

Wasn't event he almighty King of Wisdom immobilized by Satan's accusations?

It is the same situation with the President.  If his citizens decided to march and demonstrate against his laws, can he just cut off their heads for their behavior?

Even the almighty God is unable to make this move.  Any government official found to be at fault, they would be fired in an instant.

This is why your actions should not leave any condition for Satan's accusation.
This is a matter of life and death.

How you develop that protection is extremely challenging problem in your life of faith.

Since the human race are connected to Satan's, lineage, false love and will, God cannot not be present during those circumstances.  This is the problem.

What did Satan take away from God in the beginning of human history?

Satan trampled on God's pure love and crushed God's true life, love and lineage.  We should always be aware of these facts and protect ourselves.

Satan was created originally as an archangel without any trace of the fall.

Satan goes to God and accuses Him, "You are the almighty, omnipotent, all-powerful God, even you have to solve all the problems according to the principles you set up even though I became evil.   Even though I became Satan and brought about the Fall, You must abide by the rules and principles which You set up.  Isn't this true?'

I am going to explain why we cannot proceed on our way without loving our enemy. 

It is very important for you to know this truth,

Although the archangel fell and accuses God, God must still observe the principles He has established because He is the absolute God.

No matter how the archangel behaves, God is compelled to rule over His creation according to His rules and principles He laid down.

Therefore, God is obliged to act in the same manner to the archangel before and after the Fall.  This is why Satan taunts God and tells Him, "You are supposed to love me until I'm perfected and beyond."

Adam was supposed to originally, command three archangels.  In turn, they were to obey and love him absolutely.

As long as the heavenly law demands absolute obedience and submission, Satan is not able to do as he pleases with the laws and principles.

Even though he does not absolutely obey and submit to God, he knows that eventually he has to follow the same principle

If Satan violates the principle and God's law, then He can remove him.

It would be the same as the president exercising his authority through the constitutional law.  If it is not in the constitution, the president is not able to act as he wishes.

The author of the Divine Principle, the Completed Testament, dealt with such serious issues such as the existence of God and why He did not eliminate Satan as soon as he fell.

In the book of Job, you may ask why God was so powerless.

I had to understand all this. How serious I was to do so! I have placed myself on the gallows and struggled for these truths at the risk of my life. We have to retrieve our original life. 

If you are not familiar with the Book of Job, Satan accused God that Job was a faithful servant because He gave him everything.

Satan challenged God that if He took everything away from Job and made him suffer that he would curse God in return.

God gave Satan everything he asked for and told him he could take Job's life.  Why would the almighty God respond to Satan?

God cannot respond with the same behavior as Satan because God is the essence of love for others.

God is the essence of truth. 

God does not try to subjugate Satan with His mysterious, creative power.  God makes Satan yield voluntarily to His will.

Satan has used promiscuous sex, selfishness and so on and brought ruin in the world in order to prevent the world from returning to God.

How many people indulge in incest in America?

A father left alone with his daughters will molest and sleep with his daughters.  Because of the degradation of morals, the father's brother sleeps with the mother or a son sleeps with his mother.

American's lifestyle is closer to that of the animals.  Therefore, Satan laughs at God and says, "How do you even think about having an ideal world or world of love under these circumstances?"

God abides by the law

What kind of being can you say God is?

God is like the mind of the universe; the universe is like His body. 

However, the devil has plagued this body.

Satan has stolen the powers of the heavens and thus also controls the universe.  What does God need to do in order to digest this problem?  God is unable to strike Satan with force.

The essential quality in the process of creating the universe was love.  Thus, God maintains that principle, even if there are those that violate it.

Therefore, God unceasingly maintains His original standard He set up for creating, for the sake of restoring the fallen universe back to its original purpose of love.

Thus, fulfilling the ideal of true love.  If He is unable to accomplish this, then He cannot regain His authority as the Absolute Being.

This point has been so frustrating for God.

The Fall established a wrongful bond of love centered on Satan who took the position of parents.  Much interpretations have been said about the fruit of good and evil.

The descendants of Adam and Eve have carried on Satan's love through blood ties.  Satan's life, false love and blood lineage has passed on through our ancestors unceasingly.  The only relationship of love that can pass sin through the blood line is a sexual relationship.

Thus, as long as the root of the fall, false love, is not rooted out, it remains.  

Satan is the enemy of love. 

Satan fractured God's dream for an ideal world of love.

The servant forcibly took away the King's daughter and violated her.  Thus, she lost her position as the Lord's daughter.

Thus she had to be driven out of the King's establishment.  This wrongful act was an derailment from the original track of the great principle of heaven and earth.  This fact cannot be denied.

God cannot achieve the original ideal of an ideal world, unless He is able to love the children of evil just as much or even more than His own children.

Satan asserts, "I have fallen and become who I am.  My lineage even revolts against you,. Yet, don't You God have to uphold the way of the heavenly law?"  This is where God is caught.

Satan accuses God further saying, Since You are the substance of truth, love and principles, You cannot change for any reason, although I am fallen, don't you have to practice Your own principles which You established?

"Therefore, as a Being of principle, You cannot bring your children to the original world without loving the fallen angel.  The plans you placed for the archangels before the Fall do not allow Your children to enter the heavenly kingdom unless they and You Yourself love me. Although I fell and caused many calamities, You should love me or else You cannot be the true God and Your son and daughter cannot be true children without loving me."

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This post was rewritten and taken from the textbook, Cheon Seong Gyeong Book One True God, chapter 4 section 4

Existing Doctrines of God Contradictory

Throughout the history of religion, there have been many question that have been raised such as does God exists and many questions about the doctrines each religion upholds.

These teachings have brought much division, and wars between the people of faith and sometimes within the same faith separating into several different denominations.  How did we come to such a position?

We commonly say that God is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent who possesses the utmost goodness and beauty.

He is said to be a being of love, the Lord of judgment and the Father of humankind.  Yet, how do we make sure that this description is correct.  Why did God create the universe?  God could have lived by Himself for life.

God is absolute goodness, so where did the phenomenon of the law of the jungle appear in this world He created?

We know that the Fall has led to the world of sin, but why did beings created by a perfect God develop so many problems?

God has many problems which humanity has caused since the beginning.  Many ask that if God exists, why did an all-knowing and all-powerful being allow Jesus to be nailed to the cross?

If Jesus did not go to the cross would it have been possible for salvation?

If God is almighty, yet He is still unable to save perfect Jesus from dying on the cross, is such a God a cruel God we should chase away?

How could we believe and trust in such a God who seems to not be able to save humanity, who are also His children, from their misery?

There has been no one before who sought to dig at the root of the cause of God's grief after the Fall.

The relationship between God and human beings has become impotent. Although theologians and spiritual mediums know about Satan's existence, they have not been able to understand why the almighty God could not prevent Satan from opposing Him and stealing His position.  

This same problem is mimicked in the spirit world.  Whenever you try to go to God's side, Satan surely interferes.  Satan opposes us from many directions, not just one.

Why is God unable to intervene and punish the devil who perpetrated cause of sin?

This has been a riddle to humanity until now that it has been revealed.

God has been leading humankind throughout the tens of thousands of years of history toward a better world, but why have we not established a world where goodness is realized?

Instead, humanity has ended up heading toward a world of despair and hopelessness?

This problem has never been truly or satisfactorily been answered. It is the leading reason people conclude that a good God does not exist.

If a God or Creator did not exist, would it be possible for humankind to have the possibility to dream of the ideals we long for which is the peaceful world and Utopia we seek for the future?

In the past, thinking people and philosophers have failed in their pursuit of such a world.  Their answers and efforts have left the world in its present state.

When we look at the history of struggle and wars to bring about a better world, how do we assume that such a world of hope can come about in the future?

Why would the all-knowing God leave Satan alone to do as he pleases humanity?  God could just execute him one night, but He leaves him be.  Why?

This is the most difficult question which religion failed to answer in the past.  Is it a simple matter?

Many people visualize God as a God of glory sitting on His throne everyday.  This concept is why we believe that God does not have anything to do with suffering or sorrow or any kind of emotions.

If Christians were asked what kind of being God was, they would say that He was our Father.  They would further say that those who call Him Father should repent and live a life of faith in this sinful world.

God and man are constantly said to relate as parent and child, yet they are said to be in contradiction of each other.

Christianity pronounces that God is all-knowing, omnipotent, the Judge who sits on His throne as the righteous Lord of judgment who judges all people.

Do any of you like judges?

Judges sometimes pass death sentences, but their verdicts cannot be absolutely right.  There are many different ways and angles to see a situation, yet a judge measures whether someone lives or dies.  

If a judge serves for ten years, he will get sick and die; if he does not die, he will at least become seriously ill. Human judgment of universal law often misses the true mark.  For this reason, a righteous person would get sick after being judge for ten years.

We should ask God about this.

Christians also say that he sends bad people to hell and good people to heaven, but if God were joyful to see this, then He would be a crazy God.

God dwells in the place of absolute goodness, which transcends good and evil. 

Would it be interesting to have such a God that sits on His throne all day like pastors say?

Try sitting for three days straight doing nothing.

So, what is it God could be doing?

According to Christianity, God is sitting on a throne of glory while humanity suffers on earth.  If God is alone, then what kind of glory is that?

Do we truly believe that God sits in one spot for eternity, singing, "Oh, I have so much power, omniscience.  I'm so mysterious and..." Really?  What use is that kind of power?

God, too has always been living centering on love.  This logic is undeniable.

Why is it that God is unable to do as He pleases when He holds such power?  It is because He is constrained by circumstances.  

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook, True God Cheon Seong Gyeong Book One Chapter One section 7

We Can Accuse Satan's Sins

As we go about our daily lives, we are unaware of how our actions invite Satan in or lay a ground for his accusations to God.  Satan is so arrogant, he even accuses God.

He tells God, "God, I am the chief devil that constantly changes. I am the ancestor of changeability.  But you are the ancestor of heaven and earth, the substance of the unchanging Lord, aren't you?  Don't you embody the principles of unchangeableness in life?

"I fell and became rebellious.  But you are responsible to uphold the original standard which You set up. I can freely pass in and out of the doors of the ideal world, but since I can't live there I must come out." Then God would answer, "You are absolutely right."

If we commit one sin, then Satan immediately accuses us before God and says, "Because of his sin, then he should go to hell."

Even though Satan has indeed sinned himself, and undoubtedly planted the seed of sin into the world, no one has ever come forward to accuse Satan in front of God for his own sin.

Partly because no one has been able to pinpoint exactly what the nature of his sin is which he ardently had been hiding from humanity.

If we commit even one sin, Satan, the devil, will immediately accuse us before God and say, "Because of his sin, this guy must go to hell."

Though Satan, who accuses human beings for their sin, has surely committed sins himself, no one has ever come forward to accuse Satan in front of God for his sin.

Don't you think that the absolute, almighty God would lay a path where mankind, His greatest masterpieces, can eradicate Satan completely?

When a person comes forth and says to God, "Absolute God!  From the viewpoint of Your power and authority, Satan has committed this-and-that unpardonable sin against humankind and against You.  Please punish him."

If God was unable to remove Satan through this method, then how is He all-knowing and all-powerful, instead he would be siding with Satan, not humankind.

Actually, Satan is an archangel.  He must go to heaven only after Adam and Eve are perfected and enter the heavenly principle of creation and after receiving love from God and then from them.

Although Satan made a mistake on the way, if he was to humble himself and say, 'I am a servant and a traitor, yet, You Lord decided the great principles of heavenly law and established Your essential traditions based on them.  Upon these principles, You established there is one that lets You enter the Kingdom of Heaven only after loving the perfected Adam and the archangel. Surely You cannot abandon that principle?"

God is caught. He answers, "You are right." Satan traps God saying, "Although I became what I am, You, God, surely cannot be like me." 

Since the devil is an archangel, he says, "Weren't the children who can enter the Kingdom of Heaven originally supposed to love me? Isn't it the original principle of creation that You, God, and Adam may enter the Kingdom of Heaven only after You and Adam love me?" 

He further pushes God, saying, "Unless this is done, You cannot avoid my accusations. You have to establish the condition that You loved me and that Your son Adam also loved me."

This problem is the reason behind the teaching, "Love your enemy," given to all religious people of faith.

Once we enter a parent-child relationship with God, when the sons cries in sorrow, God the Father will also cry.  Then Satan will flee, He cannot remain there.

The world will not be able to be brought back to the heavenly side unless someone appears who stands in a position higher than Satan and regain the heavenly authority.

In other words, someone must appear with such a standard that they can drag Satan before God and charge him saying, "God! Satan has committed such sins!  Why don't you judge him?"

Sadly, Satan has has dragged humanity around by the yoke of sin.  We should reverse this, capture Satan and bring him before God and accuse him.

The problem is, that even though people today, know that Satan exists, they do no know exactly what sin he has committed.

Then why doesn't the all-knowing, all-powerful God strike down the fallen archangel? Why doesn't God get rid of Satan?  It is because He must also love him.

Because until now, no one has been able to accuse Satan before God and say, "God!  With Your almighty authority, please punish this sinful Satan."

Even though the archangel who God created had become Satan, God has to maintain the principled standard of thinking of the archangel as he was before the Fall.

This is why we should love the archangel: Adam and Eve are God's creation and the body of God.  Therefore, Adam and Eve must love Satan, also.

God cannot be hard on Satan for killing millions of His beloved sons and daughter in history because God is responsible for not having fully loved the archangel.  So, when Satan accuses us he'll say, "God, so and so is doing this and that."

Now because of the Completed Testament, we can know these things that no one previously understood.

Now, you can drag Satan in front of God and accuse him.  Would God say you were wrong or would He be pleased?

No doubt God would exclaim,"oh my son" and want to bless you eternally.  How intensely has God yearned for that time throughout history?

If someone comes forward that can press charges and accuse Satan, God can thus, judge Satan.

Since the first parents sinned, God is unable to freely do as He wishes.  Just the same as if a child commits a murder and has to go to jail.  Can the mother or sibling take responsibility for the crime?  They cannot, this is heavenly law.

They sinned with Satan by following his word and will instead of God's.  But God does not pass judgment on Satan or Adam and Eve for what they have done, despite what we have been taught through sermons.  God leads the providence of salvation to restore humankind back to our original position.

Although God hears Satan's accusation, he is unable to pass judgment.  This presents a problem when we look at it from a theological standpoint.  How is it possible that the almighty God cannot handle Satan?

God has no interest in fighting because there is no concept of war or fighting in the ideal world of God's creation.

If fighting were to occur in the ideal world then it would fall into dualism.

Basically, fighting does not have anything to do with an ideal world of peace.  There is no concept of struggle within God's ideal world of creation.

How did Satan fall away from his position in front of God?

He created division in large things and small things. God combines small worthless things into something large. 

God's way is contrary to Satan's. 

The origin of the universe seeks true love and the principles by which He created the universe.  We see that Satan went against this origin instead of obeying Him, he went his own way and thus fell away from his position.

The original nature of the almighty, unique and eternal God is to live one hundred percent for the sake of others.

Throughout history, God wins over His enemy through bringing him into submission through the principles of love, not by His strength and power.

Therefore, Satan must give up the position he stole from God voluntary.

God desired to bring His enemy to complete submit before Him and gratefully receive humanity's judgement as the servant which was his original position.  Until this happens, his sins cannot be indemnified.

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True God  Chapter 4 Cheon Seong Gyeong Book One section 4