We Choose Heaven or Hell

Religious people who tell those who drink that they are going to hell have no peace of mind.

“I am weary of them. When I see them saying, ‘That goes against the Bible, Matthew chapter so-and-so. You're going to hell,’ really, those rascals. If killing someone could save a nation, then don't you think they would pass a law to free the person who had killed for the sake of saving the (whole) nation?”

You decide whether you go to heaven or hell.

“I do not decide. God does not decide. You are the one who decides. If you complain, it is hell. If you go with a grateful heart to places where you would have complained, it is heaven.”

God did not make hell out of jealousy or envy. Since false people appeared, God made hell as a warehouse in which to manage them.

For example, if you bought a cabbage to make coleslaw, but while making it you discovered the outer leaves had been eaten by worms, you would dump it into a rubbish bin.

This is the concept behind the creation of hell.

Since humanity committed the crime of the Fall, therefore, to remove sin from existence, someone who is qualified must emerge to reverse this problem.

Before the Second Coming, all people who were born on earth were destined to go to hell because there was no true condition for God to save them.

The highest level was paradise which was a waiting room for the creation of heaven.

Humanity has been born of a fallen lineage.  There has not been a moment when all of humankind has bowed down and attended God with all of its heart.

Adam and Eve grew according to the ideal of creation before they fell.

But they never attended God from a relationship of the heart.  How do we know this?  Because if Adam and

Eve truly could feel God’s heart and pain, they would have never crossed the boundaries of love which ultimately separated them from their Parent.

What is hell?

Hell is a place that has no relation to God or His love, life or lineage.

No matter how well you do while on the earth, the situation after the Fall is such that you cannot establish a relationship with Heaven or the realm of the Fall.

This is a bitter tragedy we find on earth.

It is a fact that human beings who were created by God fell from a good position where they can not relate to Him.

We were to lovingly attend Him, but He was left deserted by His children who followed His servant.  No one believed in Him or knew Him.

The bitter grief of heaven and earth is that no one attended and related with God in heart.

You have to hate your fallen, imperfect self.

You should hate your body.  Your enemy’s sinful blood pumps through your very veins.  You should understand that you cannot cut this line with a knife or burn it away.

You have become a waste factory that just consumes things of the creation and cannot receive God’s complete protection.

What determines the division between heaven and hell?

Just knowing or preaching the Bible is not enough.  It is decided through acting upon the original heart.

The boundary line between heaven and hell is determined by the heart.

When you cannot conform to the ideal of love, a reaction comes against you.

No one tells you to go to hell or sends you there.  This is why the Bible states “Love your enemy!” Genuine love gives its influence on the enemy.

If one sends love to his enemy once, twice, thrice and four times, the enemy disappears or is absorbed by this love for sure.  It is because love has such a great power that Jesus said to love the enemy.

How do you think God feels when He sees His children suffering in hell?  Would He sit joyfully on the throne happy with just a few praising His glorious name?

He is desperate trying to give them eternal life.

This is the only way that His responsibility as a parent will be fulfilled.

If after the Fall God eliminated every false thing then He could not stand in the position of a parent.

This is why God even has to eventually liberate hell no matter how hard the situation.

When a rebellious child sees his parents desperately trying to save him he will recognize how much they are doing for him and shout this out thousands of times for his sins.

A son will repent till his bones melt and his flesh falls away.  The parents’ heart is such as this.

Not even Satan can accuse God for His love in trying to save humanity.

No rule prevents forgiveness for a person who repents based on the love of his parents.

From this kind of heart, hell must also be liberated.  This is the way of a true devoted child.  Therefore, members believe that we must liberate even hell.

Why?

Because God has such a parental heart for His children, for us who have suffered from the Fall.

Once one is caught in hell, it is a place one can never escape.

Despite the fact that we feel that our mother, father and relatives are going to hell, you do not really feel the desperation to save them.  You think that it will somehow work out.

However, let’s think seriously about our beloved family members going to hell.

Human nature is such that if your parents were to go to prison, you would cry.  You would do all sorts of things to get them released.

Then, if you knew that your own sons and daughter, parents, and relatives, brothers and sisters were going to an eternal prison, would you just think casually about their fate?


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

Importance of Children Growing in Love

The most basic and central truth of the universe is that

God is the Father and we are His children.

—Sun Myung Moon

In order for a son or daughter to learn how to love, it involves the heart to develops which begins at a very young age and matures throughout the lifetime.

The toddler who clings to his or her parents' hand is decades apart from the weeping adult who must place his or her parents to rest in the grave and vow not to let their wishes go unfulfilled.

Even though the experience is different, the essence of the heart is the same: a heart of attachment, appreciation and love toward the parents that only deepens and becomes conscious and responsible over time.

A child's growth determines the person's relationship not only toward his or her parents, but also toward society in general, and ultimately God.

The East calls a child's devotion to his or her parents “filial piety” and is considered the root of all goodness and morality.

Confucius taught that a child's responsiveness to one's parents is the root for empathy. Mencius taught

that if a person loved his parents, he would be kind to people in general and caring toward everything in the world (7A45).

Jesus demonstrated how important a child's heart is when he instructed his disciples to not turn away children from him. 

“Such are the kingdom of heaven made of,” he said. Saint Paul said that a Christian’s right relationship to God was to cry out trustingly like a child, “Abba!” which means “Papa” or “Daddy.”

The child’s realm of heart is foundational to a life of true love.

The success within the children's realm of love places a person in a position to receive and respond to the love of parents and the love of the ultimate Parent, God.

On this strong foundation, a person is well-placed to learn to love others as oneself.

The Formation of a Loving Child

Before religious leaders were accepted to say so, Reverend Moon was pointing to the breakdown of the family as the main culprit in society's main problems.

Now, these assertions are widely accepted among social scientists.  Developmental psychologists widely agree

that having loving relationships with caregivers (usually a parent or parents) promote the development of empathy with others and impacts a person's relationship to the world at large over a lifetime.

Children who lack such loving relationships are left without maturing a proper heart of compassion toward others, which leaves the growing young person crippled morally. 

 Such children are prone to get involved in all sorts of risky and destructive behaviors.

When a mother plays with her child, the natural facial expressions prepares them to be able to 'read' other people's facial expressions then understand what the person must be feeling based on this. This is an example of training in empathy.

The ability to empathize: to recognize and feel another person’s pain, suffering or joy as one’s own. To have empathy is the basis of the capacity to give love, take responsibility, and have fulfilling relationships with others.

Those who develop early loving relationships are able to attain trust over mistrust. This is what Erick Erickson calls the first 'crisis' of life.

When a baby cries, someone comes to comfort. When the baby is hungry, someone brings food. When the baby needs warmth and dryness this is provided. 

When the baby needs to be held, someone's tender arms are there. When a child is lonely or frightened, someone's soft voice reassures the child.

A baby who grows up in this nurturing environment, sets the stage to grow up to be benevolent, helpful participator in the world.

A view of a larger universe and of God are imprinted firmly on the mind of a young person through these early interactions.

James M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan, said, “The God to whom little boys say

their prayers has a face very much like their mother’s.”

If a mother had a smiling sympathetic face, the child will respond with a similar face to the world whenever they interact outside the family.

“We learn how valuable and worthy of love we are almost exclusively through interactions with attachment figures, especially parents,” observes Stephen Stosny, a psychologist.

A child who grew up in a loving home, assumes others are similarly lovable and worthy. He or she will behave in a manner that is just and kind toward them and treat others as he or she has been treated at home.

Operating from a core of being loved, the child is able to love others.

Studies have shown one common characteristic of rescuers of Jews under Nazism: The rescuers all have very warm relationships with one or both parents which caused them to have empathy for others in maximum proportions.

Since they were convinced of their own worthiness, it was easy for them to see others as similarly worthy and to take a stand for others' human rights.

History is laden with children who have been neglected or abandoned. They have moral impairment that can result from having a poor relationship with parents.

1940s psychologist William Goldfarb did a study of seventy children who have been raised for the first three years of their lives in institutions. He found that they were cruel to one another and also to animals.

They severely lacked an ability to control impulses, especially aggressive ones.

Researcher Selma H. Fraiberg studied children who were misplaced out of their homes. She studied abandoned babies, children raised in institutions, children shifted from foster home to foster home and children who had to be torn from their family during wartime.

She remarked, “These children who had never experienced love, who had never belonged to anyone, and were never bonded to anyone except on the most primitive basis . . . were unable in later years to bind themselves to other people, to love deeply, to feel deeply, to tenderness, grief, or shame.”

Since these children were denied the most pivotal relationship in the children's realm of heart and love, these children could never mature their heart to empathize and love others. They could not see other people as themselves.

Ambivalence in the Love Relationship between Parent and Child

In average families, there is enough ambivalence in the love relationships to produce ambivalence in a child.

Morally, this places children between great altruism and great cruelty.

The average person tends not to be cruel or or consciously try to hurt or oppress others. But the same person may have not developed empathy for instance for people in poverty and think that they are responsible for their own fate.

Freud explored the human psyche and uncovered the ambivalence of a child's relationship to the parents. He found child's relationship with their parent “contained not only impulses of an affectionate submissive nature, but also hostile and defiant ones.”

He explained that we all relate to the Father, God, with the same ambivalence we have toward our parents in general. This creates the idea in the evil Satan.

From the standpoint of cause and effect, it can be thought that a child's 'hostile and defiant' interactions toward the parent reflects a relationship with their false father Satan and evil even though they have a relationship with goodness and God.

Since the parents heart is divided between good and evil, they raise children who are similarly divided in heart.

This creates a great need for parents who have true love. These parents resemble the selfless love of God and are able to love their children in a healthy and a beneficial way.

Children raised in this ideal home, they can be true to their parents' good expectations and thus become brothers and sisters who are true to one another. These siblings can support one anther's growth and successful entry into the spouse's realm of love.

Marriages that come from adults raised in this type of environment will have peace and harmony which will become shelters for the new generation as they are guided by true parental love.

The more the parents' love reflects the love of God, the happier and healthier, and more productive the child will be.

The child will demonstrate empathy will have a more benevolent impact upon the larger world.

To have such Godly parents of true love is thus a very pressing social need to nurture and guide a child's heart.

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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 Reverend Sun Myung Moon's philosophy.

Do Not Treat People Lightly

We have reached a point in society where relationships have gone from neighbors being like family to having relationships with people only on an external bases.

You and I should not treat people lightly.


That is why until 1970, whenever someone who was hungry passed by the headquarters, I let them have a meal before they went on their way. It is our duty as human beings to give food to the hungry. Even when you are getting a meal for free, it would be right to share it with others.


If there was someone who had a bountiful supply of rice and struck a hungry person who was passing by and asked for something to eat, that household would not last long.

There were times when I saw a person who was so pitiable that I wanted to help by offering him everything I had. If you are generous with wanting to give and to help someone, God will praise you. It is good to be generous for the greater good rather than your own well-being, and for improving people's lives in the future, even though life is miserable at present.



Giving a lot of free food should not be the only thing you give.

You should also invest public-mindedness at the same time.

This kind of thinking will bring blessings. Who can dislike a person who gives free food and displays a public mind at the same time which can embrace everyone?

You should not ignore people.

Just like a worm that wiggles if you squeeze it, a person who dies with resentment and bitter feelings toward another, the person who is the cause of that resentment will not last long.

When you deal with people, you must do it in a satisfactory way. During this course of restoration, this path is not mandatory. It has to be exciting.

You must stay up all night without realizing how late it is while living in this way. This way you will discover the value of heaven only when you get to the point where you can say, "The place where I am right now is heaven on earth." Isn't this true? Even with trees, unless they are completely bonded, they don't engraft.

I try to warmly treat those who come, even if we were to starve. If they have reached a certain level of spirituality, say to the degree of one hundred, we will be struck and judged if we treat them any less. In those situations, you should treat such people two, three, five, even ten times greater than their level. You will not go to ruin by doing so.


God will be deeply impressed by a person who is able to live this way by saying, "This fellow is better than heaven!"

A dog chooses the best of houses to relieve himself. The owner will lose his blessing if he chases the dog away.

I am not saying we should not fight or argue. If both sides are going to benefit, then we should fight. We should not fight it one side would perish. We fight to educate and bring them to our side, not to make enemies.

Give with a parental heart, do not give centering on your own ambitions and wishes.

Since True Father has been doing this way, you must follow and do likewise. When you show love to people, do not be stingy.

Do not remember all that you have invested. Give even more. When you have something good to eat, you should wish to give it to someone even if you cannot eat it yourself.

A leader that hides out and eats alone is a leader who is going to decline immediately. Think about the members because you cannot eat it alone.

You should become this type of person.

Become leaders who nurture this type of parental heart. You should give to others, you should have no hesitation in giving out even half of your food.

If you give leftovers, people will feel disgusted and spit it out. If you are hesitant or picky in your giving, then people will judge you even after they are indebted to you.

Therefore, you should give together with God and with a parental heart.

Social relationships

Today, people live externally so much that we do not pay attention to each other enough. Regardless of age or sex, people are saying that dealing with people is annoying. If you view people as a nuisance, then you can never walk this heavenly path.

I believe that the life of religious people should be one where they become united with God, stand as the representatives of God's love before creation and this world, and expand and connect the horizontal relationships to the whole environment, based on a standard of love.


This original standard of love should be connected and established in your lives.

To do this, establish your relationships with other people with the heart of God.

You can view how people meet the same as all the balls colliding on the pool table. Isn't it similar to that?

Don't you feel drawn to people but then you are pushed away from them again. When you kick a soccer ball, don't you feel good if it goes up and down and changes direction in every way? This is the same in human relationships.

Our level of investment of how we use our five senses in love and life determine our value.

We ask ourselves when we look upon our life whether we have led a social life with great vitality and a heart of deepest love toward everyone we encounter. You should know that if you do not stand in this position, you are in a state of suspension or ready to retreat.

For God's providence to restore the world back to the original ideal, God needs more than Korea, but he needs all of the people of the world. Because of this, God is deeply concerned about people. This has been his goal throughout His providence.

As a group of people, we have gathered together for this task. We must stand in the position as God and have the same degree of concern and heart toward people as He has.

You should not be greedy when relating to others.

As people who strive for goodness and walk in the right direction, we shouldn't think that other people caught in the realm of evil has nothing to do with us.

We should have the determination to sacrifice for their sins, suffer for them pray for them throughout the night with tears.

Such a person who views his fallen brothers and sisters in this way will surely become their central figure.

A good person knows how to love children, young people and the elderly. If humans are in the position of stewards in relation to nature, people should love spring, summer, autumn and winter.

You should love and respect the elderly more than you do the young people. It is important to meet the youth, but you should show love especially to the elderly and have sympathy for those who cannot work and are weak and need care. We do not see this trend in society today.



When I look at youth today, I see that they avoid dealing with the elderly, but they should not do so. They should love the elderly and also the young. We should love people. We have to love people, and our yearning for them should be greater than that of anyone else's. We are gathered together centering on God's will rather than human will. Therefore, we will surely remain as the fruit of love throughout the entire world.


When you gaze at the forest of trees that cover a hill side, it is hard to distinguish a pine tree from another type of tree. However, when winter, and autumn come around, this is revealed.

When you see a green tree on the hillside during the winter, it brings hope within you.

This is symbolic of the new relationship that is established.

The first commandment is to love the Lord your God with all of your heart, mind and soul. The second commandment is to love your neighbor as you do yourself.

Your neighbor does not specifically refer to the people that live in your neighborhood, but neighbor means all the brothers and sisters of humankind.

Arrogance is your enemy.

Arrogance and stubbornness are characteristics of Satan.

Instead of being arrogant and stubborn it is best to be modest and harmonious. Today's television and reality shows promote the lifestyle of the satanic behaviors and glorifies them to be the standard to which we swhould strive.

You should be a person who creates harmony and friendship and harmonizes with everyone.

Everything begins to flow from there. Something great cannot arise if people or things do not unite.

This is what happens when there is no harmony.

Jealousy and envy are the other natures of Satan. But for us, arrogance and stubbornness are not traits that are forgiven by people.

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Mankind's Godly Responsibility

This speech was given in 1992 in Seoul, Korea by Reverend Sun Myung Moon's wife:

Distinguished guests, representatives of the Women's Federation for World Peace from seventy countries, women leaders and members of the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia:

By your presence, you bring many blessings to our Federation's future, and inspire us to multiply our determination to achieve world peace.  

This may be the first time that women have taken the initiative by bringing so many women together in one place.

I am certain that from this day forward, women around the world will come to understand their noble role which has been ordained by God, and that a road will be opened for us to build an ideal world filled with peace, happiness and freedom.

Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon

The following declaration is based upon the heart of God that transcends the past, present and future.

These words are a declaration before heaven and earth, with history as a witness.  The following words may seem unfamiliar to some, but they deal with the secrets of heaven that all women today need to understand in order to usher in the new era of peace, not only for their own family, but for the world.

History Began in a Diseased State


We have come to live in a diseased world whose destruction of its evil is inevitable.

This is the true meaning of 'The Last Days'.

Every day we hear the ugly sounds of its final death rattle.

We can trace the origin of this disease to the original ancestors who had the responsibility to lay a tradition in paradise that would lead the rest of their descendants directly to Heaven on earth.

Instead of following God's Words, they followed another.

Our original ancestors thus contracted a serious disease.  In religious terms, this even is referred to as the human fall.

This disease caused by Satan, who told our ancestors to follow his word instead of God's, has been the focus of human history in restoring the world back to its original position of heaven on earth.

The tragedy of human history was that it originated with Satan's will.

The lord of evil stole the central position to God's ideal of creation.

Adam and Eve's union resulted in children of evil, instead of children of goodness bearing God's original pure blood lineage.

We inherited Satan's love, Satan's life and Satan's lineage.  Our reproductive organs were intended to join together in virtue, to be the temples of true love, true life and true lineage.

Love was supposed to be experienced betwen a husband and wife in a virtuous union to procreate children who carry on the pure lineage.   The center of life is love.  The human lineage is transmitted by means of the love and life of a husband and wife.

The connecting line of love, life and blood lineage is what continues throughout history.  We have been held as prisoners by satanic love, satanic life and satanic lineage bearing any link to God's pure love, life and lineage.  Adam and Eve were in their youth when they sowed the seeds of this false love, false life and false lineage.  

Therefore, in these Last Days, we see a decline in morality among the young people around the globe.  

Satan uses his fallen love as a way to create a den of sin where a blow struck against God's ideal of true love.    

Standards were relaxed concerning sexual behavior, the plague of drug addiction and the decline of the family structure and traditional values have turned this world into an earthly hell.

It is impossible to find a true man, true woman, true brothers and sister, true husband and wife or true parents anywhere.

Before this age, there was no hope of creating a true society, true nation or a true world.

Mankind Must Engraft Onto God and True Parents

Adam and Eve formed a trinity of evil.

It is up to us to restore Adam and Eve that is in accordance with the ideal of creation.

In order to resolve this historical disease, someone has to testify to the fact that Satan committed sin and be able to explain the fundamental truths concerning the sin which our original human ancestors committed.

Satan and God have known the details of the fall which has been hidden from humanity and repeated to this day.

Adam was still young and did not understand many things about his environment.

In the Last Days, when Adam and Eve will finally reach perfection and discover this information and share it with the world is the biblical account of Revelations to how God will surely reveal all secrets in the Last Days.

Thus the exact crime which Satan created throughout history will be revealed.

Then it will be possible to expel Satan from the world.

For the first time, humanity will be able to make a fundamental change in direction toward hope, peace, happiness and freedom.

For us to be able to break free form false love, false life and false lineage we inherited from Satan, it is necessary that we leave behind our wild olive roots and engraft onto the true olive tree of the Messiah.

This will make it possible for our blood lineage to return to God's unstained, pure blood lineage and rebuild a heaven on earth and in spiritual world.

This is God's final purpose of God's providence of salvation, restoration and recreation.  Therefore, this is the era where the True Parents come to earth to reverse the mistake of the first parents.  

This is of the greatest historical importance.  The True Parents, who reverse the fall of our first parents, represent the final fruit of human history.

True Parents embody the completed form of human cultural history.

They signify the victory of religious efforts and philosophy within history.  Before True Parents could come, there was a period of indemnity and restoration through sacrifice, suffering and blood.

God's Providential History of Restoration

I would like to speak for a while about this historical period, based on the biblical record, to illustrate the difficulties. By understanding this, we can understand how important it is that we fulfill our responsibility today.

In the Old Testament, history worked through indemnity such as an eye for eye, tooth for tooth and life for life.  This responsibility of the fall passed from Eve to Adam.

Satan was at the center of that union.  From Eve's standpoint, after she had received the seed of false life and love from Satan, the fall occurred where Satan took over God's position.

Satan became Eve's father.  Eve placed the archangel in the position of father and Adam in the position of her son.  

Women who stand in the position of Eve in the course of restoring the world through indemnity, they have had to risk their lives in order to assure God's will would pass to the next generation.

When we look at the historical record in the Bible, we see a number of events that seem to defy explanation.

God's original intention in His creation was that Eve would become one with God.

Because Eve followed Satan's command, she became one with him.

Immediately after the Fall, God began the work through the family of Adam in order to undo the wrong course of history by going through the reverse course.

God worked through Adam's family because by them not linking to God, the fall deprived members of this family of eternity which they were given this privilege at their creation.

This is the process God used to bring about restoration of the first parents:

Cain was the very first fruit of love linked to Satan who took Eve which was on the side of evil.  Abel who was the second fruit of love, was placed to resemble the side of heaven.

This was the beginning of the history of struggle between good and evil which was aimed at the fundamental restoration through indemnity.

Cain and Abel made offerings to God at the same time, but God received only the offering from Abel, the second son, who represented God's side.

Cain represented Satan's side and God refused his offering.

The reason for this was that the second son should restore the birthright of the first son who represented Satan who was the first 'son' in relation to Adam.

Cain was to make his offering through Abel.  This is the orderly path of restoring the mistake of their parents.  This would have restored their mistake.

But because Cain could not humble to Abel and killed his brother, heaven thus worked through Seth who worked on behalf of Abel.  This providence was extended to his descendants.

Because of their failure to restore the Fall, while outside of their mother's womb, God had to accomplish His dispensation beginning within the womb.

Once we know this simple fact, we understand when Rebecca asked God why Esau and Jacob fought within her womb, God said, "Two nations are in your womb..the elder shall serve the younger." Genesis 25:23

After she understood the providence of God's will to return the mistake of Cain and Abel, she came to take greater care of the second son, Jacob.

Jacob had the responsibility to restore through indemnity the birthright of his brother Esau, emulating Adam and Abel to take back the birthright of God from Satan and Cain and bringing it back to the correct position.

That leaves one position left for this to be successful.  Rebecca needed to fulfill her responsibility in the position of Eve.

Now, we can understand the biblical account of why the firstborn was struck in Egypt during the course of Israelites' exodus and Jacob's switching of his hands over Manasseh and Ephraim at the time of their blessing.

These all contained the hidden will of heaven in order to bring about the reversal of the mistake of the first and second sons.

God's Providence to Send the Messiah


Eve deceived, God, her Father and Adam, in her fall.  To restore this, Rebecca stood on heaven's side and deceived the father Isaac and her son Esau so that Jacob could receive the blessing.

Jacob bought the birthright of the first born and initiated the lineage of Israelites on this victory which was won with the cooperation of a mother and her son.

However, when Jacob was successful in fulfilling God's will of taking full control of the birthright of the firstborn, he was already forty years old.

Therefore those who were forty and older were in the realm of victory over Satan.

But those under forty did not have a condition that gave them victory over the control of Satan on that level.

Therefore, a new dispensation was carried out for the purpose of gaining victory within the womb.  Tarmar and her twins Zerah and Perez.  Perez was the younger brother, but he pushed Zerah aside in order to become be the first born.  In fact, the word "Perez" is derived from this event.

At the beginning of history, Satan's lineage was planted within the mother's womb.

How was this possible when humanity was created by God?

We saw in the previous post that the misuse of the sexual organs was the actual cause of the Fall.

The archangel had tempted Eve with fallen love that was outside of God's dominion.  Through a sexual relationship passed on this sin to Adam, thus bearing children that were connected to Satan's blood.

The only way that the blood lineage passes from one to the other is through the action of a sexual encounter.

This mother's womb was restored to the side of God through Tamar following the will of God. Therefore, heaven took control over the first-son realm and the second son realm to God's original lineage which had caused the fall.

This was the way that the tribe of Judah formed a pure foundation where the Messiah could be born through that lineage.

This was not a simple reversal.

Tamar, as a woman fulfilling Eve's mistake, had to place herself in the position of deceiving her father and son.   She had to deny her father-in-law and his sons, whom she eventually would marry, in order to separate the position of Eve from Satan.

After this was accomplished, a basic tradition was established where God's children could be conceived without the original sin. The womb was purified from Satan's invasion.

Then it was up to the Israelites and Judaism to carry on this standard of victory in the womb until the time of the Messiah could be sent.

But by then , Satan had already had an established nation in the world.  Therefore, to send the Messiah at that time, there was not a safe national foundation for him to stand where the dispensation for restoring the world.

God had to wait 2,000 years until there was enough of this national foundation, where a woman could stand in the position of Eve, for Him to carry out His providence.

This finally took place through Mary who was Jesus' mother.

When Adam and Eve created the fall, they were engaged at that time, but they were not married by God yet.

In the same way, Mary and Joseph were betrothed to each other centered on God.  Just as Rebecca and Tamar, Mary was a revolutionary woman.  She was called by God to take part in the process of recreating Adam.

Since, Eve had deceived God and Adam, Mary had to place herself in a position to reverse Eve's mistake by deceiving her father and son.

This is the process where Jesus was conceived.  Therefore, Satan could not invade Mary's womb during the time of Jesus.

Jesus was born of a womb that belonged to a victorious woman who reveresed the reverse is the first fruit of the first love.

This was the first time in history that the bond to love Satan's children was established.

During the time that Jesus was in Mary's womb, Satan could make no invasion through lineage.  Even though saints dedicated their lives as individuals.

This is true today.  There, the Christian point of view was able to be used and was able to spread.

Finally, God has worked to use the victory in the Second War and the Christian cultural sphere to be able to accomplish unification of the world.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the Textbook for World Peace, Chapter 3

Jesus and the Spirit World

Despite the fact that people of faith adapted that we call God our Father, even the most devoted Christian can only become God's adopted son, not a true son.

Which saint, famous religious leader or person of faith can nobly say that they are God's true son and are one in heart with him? No one.

Therefore, we are in the same position as Cain.  If a child does not have the same blood lineage, they will remain in the archangel's position who stole the children of God.

Therefore, there has been a struggle until now throughout providential history to link humanity's lineage to God's sinless lineage to reverse this mistake.

This might be new information in these last days, but it is part of the revelations Jesus knew in his time, but could not relay the information because his disciples "could not understand earthly things, how can you know of heavenly things?"

Jesus died while bearing the cross to complete the mission of John the Baptist who was born to witness to Jesus, link his foundation and follow him to the end.

Therefore, based on John the Baptist's foundation, it would have been easy for the people to believe that Jesus was the son of God because they revered John.

Jesus was not able to complete his mission and must return to complete his messiahship beginning on the family level.  He has been going the way of the son restoring the way of the archangel who fell by going first going the way of the servant, and that of God's adopted child.

Jesus was able to offer his spirit, which was not attacked by Satan, but this left his mission incomplete.

He returns on his foundation to bring his true family carrying God's blood lineage on earth and bring total salvation, hence our physical bodies, not just our  bodies will be resurrected.

This means that once you are engrafted to the Messiah's true lineage, Your body and spirit both will no longer be attached to Satan.

This will bring about  a true world of peace here Satan can no longer be able to have dominion.

Now, people of faith can only go to paradise and receive only spiritual salvation.

Paradise and Heaven are two different places in spirit world.

Physical salvation means that Satan cannot attack your body anymore, no more sickness, accidents, diseases and so forth will come to a family carrying God's true blood lineage.

In order for this to happen, this victorious realm must be fought for and established on earth.  This was the reason for Christianity to come into existence.

The Returned Messiah will have the authority to subjugate the angelic realm in the spirit world, or else he would not be able to begin his mission on earth.  He inherited the spiritual realms where Jesus attained victory.

Jesus descended to hell for three days after he died as a test.

Death holds the greatest dread for humankind, but going to hell held the greatest dread for Jesus. 

Did Jesus become the master of dread or happiness in hell?

Jesus had to overcome the suffering there -  the lowest of human misery.  God is fair, so the Messiah has to come to humankind with an ideology which is of equality.  The Messiah is the savior who comes to save every last person of fallen humankind.

God creates a fair environment for the age.  Whoever unites with him is his disciple.

The Messiah begins his mission in the bottom of hell and ascend to the top of the most glorious placee in the world.

Because Jesus has victory in that lower realm, this means that there is no corner in the world of spirit world where he would not go, even if it is the risk of his life in order to save humankind.

When we know this viewpoint, is it still logical to say that the Messiah will appear on the clouds from the sky at some undetermined time?

Everyone will know once they enter the spirit world if this is true or not.  Why do people in the spirit world keep making effort to contact those on earth?

Without resolving the issues on earth, the path to perfection cannot be attained. 

This same rule applies to every person whether they are rich or poor, religious or atheist.

We have to establish corresponding to the spirit world through relationships on earth in order to open the gates and breakdown the walls in the spirit world alongside the Messiah.

The Messiah begins by establishing these victories through the level of individual, family, tribe, nation and world.  These victories on each level is then connected to the spirit world.

These victorious foundations must be established while we are on earth.  We will not be able to walk the path of restoration after we have passed on without the aid of people on the earth which can take thousands of years.

While the Messiah walks this path, he must restore the individual, family, tribe, people, nation and world in the correct order.  This is why people continue to seek and move forward toward one goal and one world now.

The Returning Lord and the Spirit World

The returned Messiah comes as the ancestor of the first and second Israel.

To find the center of all of this, the Messiah had to go the hard way through hardships and suffering in order to go this way.

The returning Lord must proclaim the ideology of unification and organize his 12 tribes, due to Christianity which lost the center and could not bring God's will of world peace to the earth.

Since God does not have a body, God must acquire a body of a perfected human.

In this way the incorporeal and the corporeal become one.  This symbolizes the universe becoming one.

God created Adam and Eve for this purpose: so He could assume a body through them and this is only possible through love.

There must be love in order for God to have a body which resembles His image.

When Adam and Eve were to become God's outer form through their body, He dwells in their minds and is able to rule the physical and incorporeal worlds through them.

This is when His kingdom is created.  It is a kingdom of love.

The spirit and body unite only through love.

It is not able to unite based on anything else.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the book Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Five, Chapter Five, Section 1,2

We Enter Heaven as a Family Unit

Have you ever been able to describe what heaven may look like?  What about heaven on earth?  What kind of world would that be?

Many people of faith speak about heaven and paradise, but they should know that it is not a place which we enter alone.

Heaven is a place that we enter with our parents and siblings.

What is the secret to entering heaven and going beyond paradise?

We should know that heaven is not a place that is filled with individuals, but rather it is meant for family units.  Not only that, but your tribe must be there with you.

You are blessed if you have a big tribe for God on earth.

If we see that a family has many sons and daughters and they have great wealth, don't we consider them blessed?

If you also want to be blessed and enter heaven, you do not do it alone, but as a family.

No one can enter heaven individually.

As I found out, heaven is not such a chimerical place as believed by Christians. Originally, heaven is a place you are supposed to enter as a family unit. Families are meant to go there.  The place parents and children enter and live together with God as the center is the ideal world. 


It is hard for conventional faiths to understand this.

Think about this, would you be happy in heaven if you were together with your mother and younger sister, while you see your father and elder sister go to hell?

Just as in the movie, What Dreams May Come, the whole family went to heaven, but the mother went to hell because of her sadness of her children and husband dying.

Her husband rejected heaven and searched for her to help her come out of her sadness like he did when she tried to commit suicide on earth.

Other than the reincarnation and the family members living separately in heaven, this was a pretty accurate movie from what many spiritualists who have peered into the spirit world realm have relayed.

Therefore, only families go to heaven.

This family will have had a holy wedding on earth wrapped in God's bosom of love where people have not fallen or have reversed the sinful past.

A family of children which God can rejoice with as His grandchildren and received His love enter together.

Would it be heaven if you entered heaven while your child failed to get there?  Who could enjoy heaven without their loves?

That place is Paradise where parents, spouse and children enter separately, no matter how close and affectionate they might have been while on earth.

Paradise is for the individual, it has nothing to do with the family.  Could Paradise be Heaven?

Jesus spoke at the cross to the thief, that he would enjoy paradise with him, not heaven.

Why do we not make this distinction clear?

Heaven is a world where the entire family follows their parents to interact with God as the center.

Would it be good if the parents are living happily in heaven while the son is screaming out desperately in agony while in hell?  Could that place be heaven?

From God's point of view of the ideal He had for creation, could such a place where everyone entered separately be heaven?  Would this be the highest realm to achieve?

No.  Heaven is such a place that where if the father enters it, so will the mother and if the parents enter it, so will the children.  Therefore they stay there together as mom and dads.

Originally, heaven, in accordance with the principles of creation, is a place entered by families. 

You would only be happy to go to such a place if you entire clan entered it.

If parents went to hell while the children went to heaven, what kind of heaven would that be?

Therefore, as we pave the way for going to heaven in the future, we must attain the family level of restoration.

Otherwise, we will not be able to go to heaven, but to Paradise.

Through the family, we must be able to escape any accusations which Satan can accuse us.  We must escape from the historical level of accusation of sins and the contemporary level of accusation.

God did not have plans for the husbands to go to heaven while the wives went to hell.

At the time of creation, God intended that the heroes who obtain the ideal, namely the fathers, mothers, sons and daughters, would form a tribe, people and nation  Shouldn't it be this way?

Yet because of the Fall, humanity created a hell corresponding to the wicked way they lived on earth. God did not create hell, our sins did.

The Heavenly Way People Should Go In The Family

Of course we know that we should love our neighbors' parents, grandparents and children just as they have loved their own children.

Only through these kinds of relationships of above and below, left and right, and front and back can they fully arise creating a balance.  Only then will the standard of heart be established and the heavenly way emerge.

Hence, they should practice the correct standard of relating to one another while they are on earth.  Therefore, they will build ideal families.  We are crossing from the family level over into the tribal realm, and from there into the national realm.

Thus, as you are able to build a heavenly foundation through witnessing, more and more people through you and the standard of value of character advance toward God.

So, what must we do with this heavenly, vertical standard?



I am saying that we should manifest it horizontally.


The family progresses on the day the mother and father unite.

The day the children and parents unite, the family progresses to a higher dimension.  Then what will happen on the day when the family and the tribe unite?

Then a new spirit for the race will emerge.

When we are prompted to reach to a higher level as a family, then everything is integrated at the national level.  We will then be able to live as the kindred of loyal subjects.

Now, even I will become a grandfather before long. This is the same for you, when you get old you will become grandfathers and grandmothers. We are born as a son or daughter, get married to become a father or mother, and then become a grandfather or grandmother; that is the course of our life. 


Since the formula course of life is grandparents, parents, spouses and children, failure to love them runs opposite to the heavenly way.  If the three generations are not able to bond together, then there will be no way to bring the world into order.

In comparison to Eastern culture of respect, grandmothers and grandfathers of the West are pitiful.  They long for the Oriental customs.  They are saying, "Oh, the Oriental thought reveres grandparents like God!  Sons over there consult their aged parents even if they are in their 70s and eighties.  How wonderful it must be!"

Therefore, those who do not know how to show love to their grandparents cannot love God.

Who do you think the oldest grandfather is?

He is God.

God is older than all of the grandfathers and younger than all babies.  If you are unable to love people as a whole, you cannot love Him.

If you say that God is old and He is the oldest person, and you say that God is the young of the future, he is a youth more than anyone else.

We want to love God, thus, we have to love people in between.

Since people of the past in the spirit world always have hope and live within that realm, we must love them as well.

It is logical that after this we will then be able to go the way of truly following and loving God.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seon Gyeon Book Four, Chapter Eleven, Section 5 and 7

Everyone Desires Good

What do you think people ultimately want out of life?

The American dream is mainly focused on happiness based on material gain.  As we take a look at the country's current status, we see that this pursuit has left the once flourishing Christian nation as a soulless land full of selfishness and immorality.

There must be a higher standard which we all wish to achieve beyond the material world.

Every soul desires to become true parents who raise sons and daughters who are able to go straight to the heavenly kingdom without persecution from the satanic world.

Even evil parents wish their children well, and hope to see the day that they, too become good parents.  Every child wishes for parents who are loving.  Isn't this our original nature? 

Of course, this has not happened all throughout history.  We only witness the tragic situation of false parents.  Who can deny this?

What parents wishes to have a child born of evil, where reckless behavior and rebellion abound?  We each want to have the best child in the world, but you have not been unable to do so.  

Then the question is how to do we become true parentts. Then what is next? 

The Three Subjects Principle is our desire

God gave the archangel the responsibility to raise His only children Adam and Eve.

Wouldn't the most important position be to raise our children as God's sons and daughters and educate them to become the people God will need?

I think that we each want to be such teachers and good examples to children.

You would like to work hard and be the president's right-hand man who can represent the nation or the owner of the company or the head of a branch of the country's administration.  In other words, we all strive to be successful.

This means that you want to become a true owner.

We all have three great ambitions in life: to be a true parent, true teacher and be a true owner.

Wouldn't you want to become a leader of your region or even the nation's president?

Before you can achieve that level, you first have to master your own household.

You have to earn the position to stand as the master who inherits the family tradition representing your ancestors and God.

After you accomplish this, you will be respected by all families and by the nation itself.  These three ambitions contain all positions in the world: true parent, true teacher and true owner.

You should each become a true parent, a true teacher and a true owner.  What is the root of these three subjects?  It is true love.

True love means that you are willing to invest more than a hundred, invest again and then invest still more.  You should be a parent, a teacher and an owner who is able to practice this philosophy.

This root is one.

Once you say true parent, then true teacher should come to the right side and a true owner to the left.  They all go around together.  Just because you have sons and daughters does not mean that you automatically become true parents.

You should give birth to them, raise them and teach them the true pathway to heaven.  Sons and daughters should depend on their mother and father.

The Three Subjects Principle is the philosophy of True Parents

The core of Three Subjects Principle is the philosophy of True Parents. Why are true parents the core here? 

On the perpendicular, there is only one vertical line. Since there is only one vertical standard based on true love, it is the representative standard rooted in the family where True Parents and the vertical God meet. 

Thus, a teacher or sovereign who follows the pattern of parental love will pursue the environment of a heavenly nation which Satan cannot invade. Since the evil one's sphere of false love cannot invade, a realm of liberation will unfold and create the heavenly kingdom on earth. 

The essence of the Three Subjects Principle

Adam and Eve became false parents through their betrayal of God's words.  This false love has brought ruin.

Since the Heavenly True Parents have reversed this mistake, we are now able to return to our original hometown.

We are living in the dawn of the age where all bad accounts will finally be settled.  We will once again be able to travel together on the proper course which God planned from the time of creation.  Everything will see its end.  This includes Christianity, Buddhism and Confucianism as will politics,  also.

So, by bringing all these together, I have established the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace (IRFWP) for the sphere of religion and the Federation for World Peace (FWP) for the political sphere.

Once the fall occurred, our mind became divided between good and evil. Now our mind will become one and its worldwide fruits will be harvested.

What bases will we be able to harvest?  This is based on the love of the True Parents who are at the head of the this dispensation.

True parent, true teacher and true owner are the essence of the the three-subject principle.  Because of this principle, even prominent and world leaders will be able to kneel before the Messiah as True Parent and ask him to teach them the true way.

Politicians of the world who are the false owners will also want to be connected to the Messiah because he is the representative of the three-subject principle of true parent, true teacher and true owner.

Then, where is it that I live? I do not stand only in the teacher's position or only in the owner's position. Even the president of an university returns home as a parent in the evening and even the president of Korea returns to the Blue House. Even the one who commands the royal courtiers must go home to sleep and there he becomes a father, a parent.

When you step back and look at the original position, then we realize that the parents are the center. The school is based on parents, and the position of owner is based on parents.

Everyone may go out or leave, but eventually they return to their parents.  The place where you can live without having to return is the place where your parents live.

There is a saying that the king, the teacher and the parents are all equal with its basis here.  This is how all things work involving true love. 

I am now conveying a true teaching to you. This is why I am the best of all teachers.  Among all the rulers of history, there have been none who have ruled with loved.  This is why the mind and body desire to live forever resonating with me and the way I am going. 

Those who love this movement and have the heart to love God, love humankind and love the fundamental essence of human beings are unable to leave the Messiah.

This is because at his Second Coming, he acquires the heart of a parent, the heart of a teacher and the heart of an owner.

Through his teachings of the Divine Principle, which upon this blog is base, you are able to become the true parents which you have desired.  You can become owners and become true teachers.

A parent-centered ideology

We know that Jesus is a man. He is not just any man, but a man who received God's direct love, life and lineage.  

If Jesus was to meet a woman who could have a true marriage with him and they were to have true children, then these children would have been linked to the direct lineage of God.

If Jesus was to fulfill his mission of creating a true family leaving true children of God on the earth, then there would have been no need for 400 years of Christian persecution or the Vatican.

Jesus' true lineage would leave a true kingship and a true royal family on the earth to this day.

The Bible speaks of two outcomes, either the Messiah was to be King and conquer the evil society of Rome or he would suffer greatly.

When the Jewish people were unable to follow Jesus as God's true son, he left his mission incomplete, thus having to return to finish his mission of having a true family on the earth.

This true family will expand creating a new world centered on God.

This true kingship would not have started on the world level, but would have a starting point in a single family - the family of Jesus.

Then from the family, it would have advanced beyond being a family kingship such as the royal family in England, but it would have become a tribal, a national, a worldwide and a cosmic kingship.

This was God's original plan for Jesus, thus, the way of the cross was a secondary decision for only spiritual salvation of the world.

This condition still left the sinful lineage of Satan on the earth.  The True Parents have liquidated the mistakes of the fall from their lineage and now offer humanity complete salvation from satanic life, love and lineage forever.

If this had happened in Jesus' time then all of the denominations, ministers, and Democracy would not be needed.  Democracy is only based on the brotherhood ideology.

This is why people continue to fight centered on this philosophy.

The world's conflicts is just merely brothers and sisters fighting among themselves.Therefore the brotherhood ideology should return to a parent-centered ideology.

From there, God-centered ideology of Godism will rise to replace the divided ideology of politics.

The parent-centered ideology was initially supposed to be established by Adam and Eve.

True Parents are the horizontal or earthly parents, so we need a vertical or spiritual parent. God.

This can be termed headwing or Godism.  That is how it works.

Once heavenly life and earthly life connect, than human beings are born.  Then heavenly love and earthly love are connected, and heavenly lineage and earthly lineage are connected through the unity between the horizontal true parent-centered ideology and the vertical God-centered ideology.

This is why we are beings with a dual structure.  We each consist of an internal and external person.  The internal, spiritual person is the vertical self and the external, physical being is the horizontal self. These are the fruit.

Since Democracy is based on brotherhood, when there are many brothers, then the one who receives the most love from their parents always creates the issue in the family.

Some children may take after their father and some after their mother.

Then within that unit, a mother's group and a father's group emerges based on which child takes after either parent.  This takes place based on love.

Through this scenario, we see that after the Second World War that the victorious nations allowed the defeated nations to keep their independence.

This had signified that the world had entered, at that time, the brotherhood ideology.

This is why at the point where the God's side ideology appears, the two brothers will thus fight in front of the one God.

In the final period of history, America played a leading role based on its Christian culture.

This has laid an unified foundation.  Instead of America judging the other nations of the world, she allowed the defeated nations to keep their independence instead of conquering and taking over that nation.

This suggests that now we have entered the age of God's providence where the abandoned sons and daughters of history, the prodigal children, can now be brought back together.

This explains how the brotherhood ideology of democracy came about.

As this time of the brotherhood ideology comes to an end in history,the parent-centered ideology now establishes a base on earth.

The only way we are going to see world peace is under such a parent-centered ideology.  Ideology based on God.  This is providential history.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong Book 2, 'True Parents'  Chapter 8 section 1