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."

Return for Tomorrow's Post:  Leave No Condition for Satan's Attack

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

Why Do We Need Religion

We first must understand the true purpose for God creating the world before we can answer why religion came into being.

Many posts on this website mention that God's plan for His ideal world is opposite of the world we see in today.

The Divine Principle focuses this reversal in dominion from God's world at the beginning with the first parents a man and a woman who instead of following God's holy warning to wait for maturity to partake in sexual pleasures, followed the servant archangel to do as they please.

Then we can see that religion was later born to teach humanity to go in the opposite direction of the archangel and to follow Him back into His bosom.  Once all of humanity follows God's ways of love and not the fallen, archangel way of love, then we would naturally observe a world full of love and peace - an Utopian world full of God-like people.

All religions emphasize self-denial and sacrifice in order to achieve the highest form of love.

Without exception sacrifice is necessary for you to form an intimate relationship with God. Why should sacrifice be the highest form of love's fulfillment? There are many, answers but let us analyze this through the major religions.

Christianity has delivered the message of putting the love of God above all for centuries as well as other prominent religions in history.  Each major religion has a foundation in love.

Buddhism preaches a life of mercy and benevolence which is actually in essence practicing love for our fellow man.  Each religion emphasizes that one practices a life of self-denial instead of self-centeredness.  Why does one have to make such effort from our sinful being?

Because sin originated when the first parents of humanity practiced living based on one's own desire leaving out God's purpose.  Therefore, without exception, in order to reverse this fallen deed one must live a life of sacrifice to form an intimate relationship with God.

Why is sacrifice the highest way for the fulfillment of love?


Mind and Body Unity

When we look at the mind and body, which is less evil when it comes to sin?

Christianity along with other religions deem the flesh to be the tool for evil and bring it to submission through being humble before God.  This is why religions practice subjugating the body to weaken it so the body will listen to the good mind and become one.

Religion practices being humble, meek and sacrificing of oneself as virtues so the body is forced to unite with the mind.  God has been leading mankind toward this way of life.  But if man does not respond to God's call, then His efforts are in vain.

God blessed humanity with free will in order to have objects that are on equal footing with Him.  In this way, as humanity has continued to deny God, He sacrifices Himself in wait for humanity to return instead of forcing unity.  Thus, in order for God and man to unite, it is a mutual effort.


Is Religion Necessary?

Many wonder why we need religion.

It is said that if one follows the dictates of the conscious, then there is no further need for education.  But when in our daily lives, living moment-to-moment do we observe ourselves faithfully following our good mind without the need of placing much effort?

The reason is because sin causes an extreme struggle between the mind and the body.

Without going through the path of religion there is no way to reconcile the mind and body, no hope that some day you will even get close to God.

The contradictions within man cannot be resolved without the process of religion.

In this case, religion is absolutely necessary for man to return to their original position before God.  Religion was not placed on earth to last forever.  When we look at the original Garden of Eden before sin was born, God and man communicated freely without the need for prayer, religion or a mediator.

Once man gets rid of this struggle within themselves and unites directly to God, there will be no need for religion.  The ultimate goal of religion is to liquidate sin within humanity and unite him directly with God.

Those who oppose religion have an original mind and conscious that pulls them toward the desire for peace. Such a person will effortlessly try to bring humanity into wholeness just through man's thoughts and efforts alone.  We do not have to look far in history to see that this thinking is impossible.

This is how atheistic communism arose by trying to bring a world of peace without God, but through force, stripping away the very gift God gave each of us.

Even God does not demand that His own children follow Him, but dictators have believed peace could be achieved in this way.  It is not a lasting peace and it is only superficial.  Communism or those who live without God as their base, they try to find their comfort through things in the material world in which they see. Their joys, harmonies and love are based on the material goods in which they can harbor.  Such a life will be easily blown away like a leaf in a storm because material is not everlasting.

All of this brings us to the logical conclusion that religion will not be needed by man for eternity, but will be consummated by the emergence of man in perfection. 

Many church leaders and foundations would not like to hear that one day their position will be liquidated.  Many wars have started between religions and different sects as man placed his own thinking and limited power on God.  This way has brought more confusion and frustrations to God's efforts to bring His children back toward the original way of Heaven.

It is logical that on our journey toward peace we start out from the very bottom of the fallen state. The journey will lead us into the ultimate goal of total and perfected union with God.  The opposite ideology places emphasis on the material world.

Which is more perfected: the mind or the body?

The body is limited but the mind has no limitations only that which we place upon it.  The only way this world has hope to come out of this unfallen state is through the search of God through religion.  This longing for God brings hope for the union of men and God to be accomplished one day.

Father Moon has dedicated his life and body suffering the most for the sake to find the solution to the question of how to reconcile the war between mind and body.  This is an all important question as if every individual was to absolutely live according to God's will and form families, this world would quickly become a world of peace.

What we seek and need most is not God Himself, but God's love.

Religion has existed for thousands of years and yet, the unity between man and God is still a distant dream as conflicts, racial and national barriers arose. Therefore, there should emerge a religious movement that rises above these barriers and unite all people together with the common dream of humanity obtaining unity with God's love.

There should be a movement that erases these setbacks because God Himself embraces all races, levels in society, nationalities.  He does not express His love based on these aspects that only separate people.  If God limited his love based on race, then He becomes an imperfect God.

When a religion exists that can bring people from different aspects of life together in the name of God, then let's observe the religions that have a foundation and where it may be lacking in bringing world unity.



Religions are God's tools and they should be universal





True salvation springs from union with the love of God, which manifests everywhere in a fair and justified manner. Which race you belong to makes no difference at all. It cannot be said that the love of God works only in the Western hemisphere; it shines throughout the earth. Any religion which proclaims the segregation of the races is a false religion.

A new religion is needed which embraces all men equally.

Religion has the goal of saving people.

World salvation comes from union with the love of God which manifests everywhere in a fair justified manner.  God's love is not based on which race or which side of the hemisphere one lives.  God's love shines throughout the earth just as the sun. Any religion that pronounces separatism is a false religion.

 For instance, Jews and Christians should not feel that they are the only people who deserve the love of God. They must feel instead that they are merely servants who must bring the love of God to all humanity.

If we were to view from God's high standard of love, would He think that unity would come from the whole world turning to Judaism, Christianity or Islam?  Would you think that God would limit Himself to just one religion to shine through?  Religion is simply just a tool for God.  God's love is supreme and encompasses the highest possible level.  Everything in creation is a part of it and is surrounded by it.  The love of God encompasses all human existence.

Religion was meant to be universal, not reject the basic principles of God's love.  

When we look at this standard, is modern Christianity perfected?


Christians dictate that at the end of the world of judgement, only Christians will be lifted up in the air to meet the Lord and live there forever and all others will go to hell.  Is this the right attitude to have?  This kind of thinking is based upon a cruel God and an imperfect ideal.

A revolutionary concept must come to Christianity and enable it to meet the criteria of perfection that God originally intended. Father Moon says that is the Unification Church.  There must be a movement that clearly defines God's intentions and bring humanity back on the correct path toward salvation.

What is the Unification Church supposed to do?

"First of all, make one world and elevate it into a world of God. Encouraging self-centered individualism is Satan's final strategy to demolish this world and this nation and we must destroy this satanic concept. What am I trying to contribute to you?

You have never really tasted the true love of parents or of husband and wife and brothers and sisters. I am trying to ignite in you spiritually the ecstatic joy of God's love so that it will not be just a concept to you but be a presence in your daily life.

One phenomenon sets the Unification Church apart: Our members often meet me in dreams or visions and in all kinds of spiritual circumstances. The power of spiritual experience already exists and embraces each one of you every day.

 Those of you who have such experiences, raise your hands. In the mundane world those things may seem abnormal and certainly they have never been seen in any other religion in the past. Physically I am very far from our missionaries all over the world but I am just as close to them as I am to you. This is a most vivid testimony to the significance of our movement.

I want you to know that tremendous sacrifice has been paid in order to come to this level today. Many nations have collapsed and many millions of people have died for this. Since it comes to you without too much effort you don't realize its value and you think that this is common everywhere. It certainly is not.

We are a religion of experience and feeling because God is not a conceptual God to us. He is the master of our daily lives. As soon as you come into this atmosphere you immediately become a recipient of new spiritual power and presence, but for people outside our Church it is an unfamiliar and perplexing thing to grasp." SMM

Do you want to know the secret for meeting God in your daily life?

The most important element in order to reach the love of God in our daily life is to conquer the body.  The body has three fundamental desires:

The first urge is that the body gets hungry and looks for food.  

How to conquer the body was one aspect Father Moon worked hard to answer.

He found that he had to have a love for God more than the love of his body when he became hungry.  This is why many religions place emphasis on subduing the body through fasting, prayer and service to others to weaken the body's cries for attention.

When a person demonstrates their love for God through sacrifice, one sets a superior standard for the love for God as stronger than the love of food.  Jesus was the ultimate example of a person who conquered  that particular desire and went through a forty-day fast for the sake of the chosen people.

Many other saints and prophets led the same way of life such as Moses and St. Francis, leading a life of sacrifice.

Why is this a high standard for religion? Because hunger is the worst kind of suffering the body can experience.  When one forgets their own need for food while in search after God, they make a precious statement about their dedication to their faith.

If you have completed a seven-day fast, when the last day arrives some may have been watching the clock closely and for the moment it was time to eat again.  Others will think that they have felt hunger until praying, loving and going after God more than their desire for delicious food on the last day.  The latter is the true way of thinking when one fast.

One's longing for God over the love of food is the real test.

"Until I was thirty there was no day that I was not hungry because I deliberately went without food in order to test myself. At that time I was so hungry that if someone was eating nearby my mouth hung open and saliva drooled out even without my being aware of it.

When it gets hungry enough, the body just automatically reacts that way. You can't say you have overcome your body until you have conquered desperate hunger by the power of your love of God." SMM

The second fundamental urge is for sleep. 

Can you demonstrate that your love of God is stronger than your body's desire for sleep?

You will pass this test when you think of God and He becomes so real and relevant that your intense love of God conquers your deep desire to sleep.  When we search through history and observe the life of those who seriously pursued God, they all lived an ascetic life that seemed harsh to those in the fallen world.

They fought their desire to sleep hard and would endure all kinds of things to fight the body such as stabbing and cutting their own flesh just to keep awake!

For seven years, Father Moon only slept for two hours a day.  When he was being tortured for preaching the word of God during the Japanese occupation, he was forced to stay awake for two full weeks and was whipped each time his eyes closed.

During this torture technique, he learned to conquer his body and even sleep with his eyes open.  Through this technique of conquering his body, many revelations and secrets held for thousands of years were revealed to him.

We need to win this love of God and show that our love is more intense than anything that tries to separate us from his love.

When you become sleepy at a time you are doing God's work, you should be stronger than your craving for the comforts of sleep.  We all have that feeling when we are performing a mission where we are ready to collapse from exhaustion, but your love should conquer that feeling in such moments.

It is most difficult to go beyond the level of hunger and sleepiness for the love of God.

It may be hard at first, but each day like a muscle we can exercise this need by going to sleep a few minutes later extending it each day and/or waking up a few minutes earlier each day until we finally have a less need for sleep.

Jesus had to conquer all those bodily desires. The Bible said that he fasted for forty days and furthermore, we can well imagine that his life was a struggle both day and night. In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus asked his closest disciples to stay awake and watch with him while he prayed desperately, but what happened to the disciples? They fell asleep.

Why was this mentioned in the bible and why is it so significant to why Jesus finally told them that it is done and to finally get their rest.  We will understand Jesus' frustrations in keeping his disciples awake when they kept falling asleep when we know that this means that it shows where their true hearts lay.

A true follower of Jesus in his deepest hour of need would have stood by his side until the final moment, not only did his disciples sleep when he begged them to pray during that hour, but scattered when he needed them the most.  This says sufficiently that satan still had a hold on them that they could not fight their bodily selfish desires for the love of Jesus and God.

Jesus' disciples could not win over sleep and Jesus told them that though their minds were willing their flesh was weak.

This is not some hazy spiritual concept. You must overcome precisely these things in your life. I would not speak this way to you unless I had tested out everything in my own life.

The third desire you must conquer is the urge for physical love. 

The worst kind of temptation for religious people always comes in the form of sex.  The need for sex outside of marriage and away from God is the beginning of sin in the Garden of Eden.  Adam and Eve misused their sexual organs before the time of maturity.

Satan creeps into men's prayers in the form of a beautiful woman.

Men and women have different and distinctive sexual desires. Your intense love for God should surpass the desire and need for carnal love that is not linked to Him.  When we look at this high standard of God in comparison to the young people in America, we see that they have much to overcome.

America's permissive sexuality, "sleep with whomever and how many you want", has killed the moral life of Americans like a dirty rag.  A once prosperous nation has been shocked to its knees due to the promiscuous free lifestyles of its citizens.

This is why every major religion has practiced the life of celibacy.  The body is viewed as the worst enemy and has three formidable weapons: the desire for food, the desire for sleep and the desire for physical love.

"I have fought the same battle that you are engaged in but you have no idea how many tears I have shed to win over these temptations."


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This post was rewriten and Based upon the Speech, Core of Unification