What Makes One a Messiah?

If a non-believer was to ask you this question, would you be able to answer it clear enough without a lot of relgious jargon?  How about giving a satisfactory answer to why humanity needs a Messiah from your heart?  How do you answer such a question?

What is a Messiah's purpose?

There are several Messiahs by definition for each religious sect.  A person who comes to save for that specific realm of belief, correct?

Why do we need a Messiah?  To bring us bakc to the point connecting to God's love.

In short, a Messiah is connected to God at a higher level and connects us directly to God's love.

Humanity who has inherited satanic blood needs to go back to that point.

 

 

The blood lineage of fallen people is disconnected from God's love.

We must indemnify this fallen blood and return to God's pure blood such as Jesus.

The original sin of lust or love outside of God must be removed from humanity completely.  But how do we go through the process of removing the fallen blood?

We cannot do it on our own. Even though we try to bring peace to the earth, we need a Messiah to connect us to God in order to begin that process.

The Messiah makes conditions where humanity can go back to God.

Therefore, since this has been God's strategy throughout the ages, He set up champions from the eivl world.

To understand God's process of bringing the world back to its original position, we must look in history from God's point of view.

Let's start with the first family that God created.

This family consisted of a man Abel, who served God as His first champion after the first parents fell away from God.

Abel was the first man to give up his life for God's purpose.  He had to reject and separate himself from Satan in order to go back to the bosom God by fighting and defeating Satan.

He had to be different from his fallen brother as the first position to receive God's love.




There are three stages are the important formula: the one who is willing to save the world must fight against Satan and win the victory over him; then he or she must come into the love of God; and then, feeling the heart of God and fallen people, he or she must be willing to sacrifice him or herself in place of the fallen people. Only on that condition can the fallen people be taken back.




When Cain's offering was denied by God, Abel should have come into the love of God and through feeling and experiencing God's grief and his brother's grief he should have sacrificed himself in Cain's place.

This sacrifice was not supposed to happen through the shedding of his blood through death, but as a living sacrifice so that God could work through him.

Instead, Abel was arrogant and not compassionate toward Cain who represented the fallen, satanic blood lineage and was thus killed by his brother.

God then worked through His champion Noah who accomplished a very unusual mission. 

God directed Noah to go to the top of a mountain and build a boat.  This is awkward even in our day.  Common sense would say to build a ship near the water in a shipyard.   Who could in our day and age accept this mission or obey such a command without having any doubt?

Even in Noah's time no one could believe that this kind of command came from God. 

Still, Noah went up and down that mountain working on his boat.

To think of it more on a human terms, Noah's wife must have packed his lunch everyday and struggled with how she and her family appeared to everyone.

But God works in such 'odd' ways for a reason --- because of evil.

 

 

 

God cannot dwell together with evil.

The direction of God is 180 degrees contrary to the direction of evil.

God abhors evil!

He does not accept the things that the evil world accepts and does not want to have anything to do with the evil world or anything that is tainted by evil.

Even we do not even want to look at our enemy; God also does not want to have nothing to do with the evil, satanic world.  Therefore, when he gives commands to his champion, He chooses ways that seem incomprehensible to humans.

God test our faith and cannot do so by doing so in a comfortable way to His people.  Therefore, it is important that we are willing to comply with God's extraordinary instructions when He asks.f

This is an easy task.

People of faith see Noah's actions as glorious, but in his time, they thought he was a crazy man for building an ark away from water.  Nobody could see that he was the central position in God's providence - a messiah of his time.

Let's take a moment with Abraham.

He did not come from a religious house, but from one who made idols for a living.  He had to separate himself from his evil surrounding and leave his homeland in order to be God's champion.  That was God's command.

If Abraham discussed his descion to follow God's direction, as an idolmaker, he would have thought his son was crazy.

God instructed him to journey away from his homeland. This was a lonely journey.  He had to wander like a gypsy and give up everything.






The champions of God have one characteristic in common: They begin their missions by denial of themselves and their surroundings.





Always we find that their life in this world was lonely because they suffered many, many things and. were persecuted by this world. When they had nobody to convey their thoughts and feelings to, they could go only to God and talk to Him.

Also, when we look at their lives in the world, their material lives-they were so narrowed down, received so few material things; naturally, they turned their hearts and lives toward God. When we think of how they were living in this world, their scope of consciousness was so narrowed down that they had to cognize everything centered on God. That was their life.

They naturally had the task to live centered on the oneness of God in every area - recreation with other, knowledge and cognition.  They plunged deeply in their relationship with God and relied purely on Him.

They did not have anyone on earth to rely on.  The reality of this fallen world was seen as narrow to them where they needed to build an opening for God by relying on heaven.

 

Even if a narrow detour must be taken to God we as God's champion, are not supposed to be depressed.

There is a way out.

We should not be discontented.  All things were created for the purpose of happiness and satisfaction and contentment.

From this narrow point where the evil world and God meet is the new relationship between God and ourselves begin to open.

For example, St. Francis emphasized pure poverty, a nothingness in which he could find happiness, appreciation, contentment, and satisfaction. From that point on, God could move and let him feel happiness and joy.

True oneness with God was created from that point.  We have to realize that we are fallen people with the blood of satan pumping through us. We stand on the center of two lines between the evil world and God's side.

 

We have to know when to narrow down, so we will know when the new era of happiness and joy will begin.

Let's examine this line throught the life of Jesus Christ himself.


The Bible has scanty details of his life. It doesn't even say he went to elementary school.  He was a laborer, an assistant carpenter.


Reverend Sun Myung Moon speaks on this fact:

"There is so much to know, so many hidden truths within the Bible which are not written explicitly. If I revealed some of those secrets I am sure you would be amazed. Even though I know these things, I could not tell you those stories lightly.

For you then would ask, "How do you know such things?"

I learned them from Jesus. Yes, and I learned from God. Remember, at the time of Noah nobody could believe Noah. At the time of Abraham, nobody could believe Abraham. By the same token, even though I will honestly tell you what actually happened at the time of Jesus, no one will easily believe me.

 

Who is the Messiah?

The Messiah is completely united with the heart of God, like a direct import to earth from heaven. When God sent Jesus to be the Messiah, did He just take him as a baby and place Him on earth, or did He at least have to utilize the body of a woman for him to be born?

We must think on a human point of reality when we look at Jesus.  He was born of Mary.  Since she was a human, she was born of parents.

She must have been a descendant of the fallen lineage so how could she have a child with the blood of God pumping through him?

Q. How do we know Jesus Christ is truly the Son of God?

When we look in other religions and do a comparison, we see that Mohammed, Confucius and Buddha had many more followers than Jesus did in his time. So what makes Jesus so special?

Jesus is the Son of God because he came from the heavenly lineage whereas the above founders did not.

Based on the foundation of Jacob and Esau successfully fulfilling the indemnity condition of Cain and Abel's mistake God prepared another step to be able to bring about a Godly lineage to protect His childre from the womb.

This providence was sealed within the next three generations of Jacob's descendants. It is recorded in Genesis chapter 38.

Adam and Eve fell through fornication, and Tamar was one example of how God frequently used women of most unusual character in restoration.

Judah was the fourth son of Jacob, and Judah's first son married a woman whose name was Tamar. According to the Law, if a son died without leaving sons, his brother must act as a husband to the dead brother's wife so that the dead brother's lineage would be continued. Tamar did not have children when her husband died, and when the next brother refused to fulfill his responsibility, he also died.

Tamar saw that through the third brother as well, she had no hope to bear children.

She knew that her mission was to continue the family of her husband and Judah, his father, and she finally decided to sacrifice even her honor in order to fulfill. Disguising herself as a prostitute, Tamar enticed her father-in-law to have a relationship with her. Without knowing she was his daughter-in-law Judah consented. At that time adultery was punished by death. In order to save her life for the sake of her child, Tamar asked Judah for his signet and staff as a pledge for payment, and then confiscated them.

Three months later when it became obvious that the widow Tamar was pregnant, she was brought before Judah to be judged. You can imagine Judah's horror, "Bring her out, and let her be burned!" But she answered, "By the man to who these belong, I am with child," and she brought out the things that Judah had given her in his pledge.

 Why would God use adulterous women in the dispensation?


God selected His champions from the most miserable situations. Tamar was a righteous woman, and though she was placed in a sinful position, she completely dedicated herself to God's mission, risking her life, honor, and prestige. Paralleling the way Eve lied to God and her husband-to-be in the process of the fall, Tamar deceived her father-in-law and her husband-to-be, Judah's third son.

She reversed the position of Eve by reversing Eve's actions, and the significant thing is that she risked her life in doing it, just as Eve did in falling at the cost of her life. Thus, God could have a claim on Tamar's womb-on the very life emerging in that womb.

Tamar conceived twins, and the struggle of Cain and Abel began within her very womb.

The Bible records how Rebecca's twins also struggled within their mother's womb. Rebecca prayed to God to understand what was happening, and the Lord answered her, saying, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples, born to you, shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, and the elder shall serve the younger." Ultimately Jacob did gain the birthright from his elder brother, Esau.
When the time came for Tamar's children to be delivered, the struggle ensued directly within her womb. The first child started to come out and the midwife tied a red thread around his wrist. That sign foreshadowed the emergence of communism in the last days.

Esau was also named "Edom," which means "red." (Gen. 25:30) However, before the first child could be born there was a struggle, and the younger brother pulled the other back inside the womb and was himself born first. That son was named Perez, and the other named Zerah.

The result of this struggle is that for the first time the restoration of Cain and Abel took place inside the mother's womb, the younger brother having subjugated his elder brother even prior to birth. Tamar's extraordinary action cleansed Judah's lineage and rendered it intact from satanic invasion from the time of conception.

Through this victory at the time of Tamar and also Jacob's earlier victory, God could claim a foundation that spanned the entire human life-span. Jesus was born in the lineage of Judah, and Satan had no way to invade his life in the womb because the cleansing process was already completed.

Jesus came years after the dispensation of Jacob and Tamar because God had to wait for Israel's national foundation to be established. The conditions were fulfilled on the family level at the time of Jacob, Tamar and Judah, but God needed to create a foundation to receive the Messiah within a nation, that he might be received on the national and international levels as easily as possible.






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This post was rewritten from the text, God's Providence in Scriptures - God's Warning to the World message from prison

Reason Religious Conflict Continues

Have you ever wondered what would have happened if man had not fallen?

What if we chose God's words over Satan's?

The Bible teaches that God is absolute, holy perfect and all-powerful, while we humans which He created are profane.  This is wrong.

Even those who have passed on to the spirit world call God their Father, just as people on the earth do.

Therefore, if you are unable to establish a direct relationship with God without the need for a messenger, how can we come to call Him our Father?

Here we see the logical contradiction at the outset.

God created humans to be His sons and daughters, but do you think throughout human history He has witnessed them dancing and singing while praising God?

Because man was expelled from Heaven on Earth from the outset, God has not been able to experience that day.

Christians do not realize this fact about God.  They see God sitting on His throne in glory, all-knowing, all-powerful happily enjoying the creation.

God is not able to do anything.


Because we fell from His standard, God cannot work freely or to His heart's utmost intention.

Christians must ask why God has not been able to save humanity all these thousands of years.

What is the answer?

Because humanity is the one that committed sin.

They practiced free will in not choosing God's words as absolute.  Then they fell away from God and toward Lucifer as a consequence of that choice.  Since we committed sin, we must be the ones to liquidate it.

What is it that God absolutely wants? 

What do you think that God ultimately wants?  Is it ability?  Power?

Churches today teach that God is the righteous God of judgment.  They say He sends good people to the Kingdom of Heaven and evil people to hell.

Would you like to have that kind of judge or father?

Do you even like judges in the secular world?

What kind of God would want to send people to hell and others to heaven?  This would be unfair.  Christian doctrine claims that God the Creator is holy and the things He created are profane.

This theology contradicts the original purpose of the universe.

The traditional, mainstream idea of Christianity is said to be based on love, even loving one's enemy, but how can the profane sinner and the holy God become one? 

There must be a basis establish to answer this serious question.  Any other conclusion beforehand is futile and false.

God needs a partner to absolutely obey, serve and have relationship with Him at the cost of His own life.

Unfortunately, theological trends have upheld so far the view that created beings are not in equal position to the holy Creator.

Now is the time to re-examine all previous doctrines of God and views of life.

With the old ideals, how can love be given?

Can God share His love with Himself?

God needs an object partner.  

What motivated God to create the world?  Why wasn't He satisfied alone?

God created Heaven and earth because He needed love.

Then based on this, the Christian doctrine is in error.  They say that because God is an absolute power that He can subsist on power alone.  That is why wherever this was taught, blood has been spilled.

Based on this logic, Christian culture will have a devastating impact on the world in the Last Days even though the Western world has developed according to the Christian culture.

History is heading into the age of science. 

We are living in the advent of scientific development where the fundamental roots of everything are investigated.

Our basic origins are pursued through studying the origins of species, religion must keep up the pace.

Religion must explain the reality of the world of creation and prove God's existence.  God prepared the substance of such a religion because He is a living God.

If the Absolute Being created us to practice His love, it is clear that there was a motivation and purpose behind our creation.

In order to explain this motivation and purpose, there needs to be a correct view of God that explains who He is.

Once we acquire the correct understanding of God, it will reveal His purpose and motivation for creation. Therefore, clarifying the reason we practice absolute love for the sake of peace.

If God exists, then we must be able to view the origin of true love, true ideal, true peace and happiness from the new standpoint centering on God.

From there we can secure perspectives of God, life, and material things that are aligned with God's own viewpoint.  Then finally, we will be able to welcome a world of new peace and new happiness.

The reason behind religious conflict lies in the vagueness of the doctrines.  There cannot be two absolute beings, only one.

However the leaders of each religion claim that their absolute being is the true God and the others are false or not true gods.

This results in each religion having their own absolute being even though it is the same God.

This fosters further contradictory ideas of the existence of many absolute beings.

Since this leads to the conclusion that the gods of all religions are nothing but relative gods, the system of absolute values still remains relative.

This should have been developed through religions based on the doctrine concerning God's love and truth.

In other words, we conclude that religions to this day have not established an absolute value system that settles the confusion.

This is because no religion has been able to present the correct explanation about the Absolute Being.  Confusion is the inevitable result.

Each religion has their own absolute being as the basis of its doctrine.

The absolute being in Judaism is Jehovah, in Christianity, God and in Islam, Allah.

Buddhism and Confucianism do not specify an absolute being, but with the basic Confucian virtue, benevolence being connected to heavenly mandate.

Heaven can be taken as the absolute being in Confucianism.

Moreover, since Buddhism teaches that all dharmas constantly change while the truth is found in the "suchness" behind dharmas, we can say that "suchness" constitutes the absolute being in Buddhism. 

This new religion must have a doctrine that reveals the absolute beings of the different religions as not separate gods, but one and the same.

This new religion will reveal that all religions constitute a brotherhood established by God where the theologies of each have embraced one particular aspect of God's attributes.

This new religion will complete the picture of God.

In revealing the attributes of God and His motivation and purpose behind creation, the doctrine must explain that this purpose and these laws govern the movement of everything in the universe.

The doctrine shows that human norms are in the end, in accordance with the universal law, that is the heavenly way.

The Divine Principle, which this blog is based upon, explains that the creativity serves us in our understanding of the process of creation.

Next, it gives a substantial explanation to the true reason behind the Fall and then present a view of history.

It explains how God, rather than abandoning human beings in their fallen state, took responsibility for His children and has been working diligently for their re-creation throughout the course of history.

God has been working hard to bring His original ideal of Heaven on Earth to fruition in our time.

The Principle logically and plainly reveals that through this process of restoration, we will arrive at the world He purposed to achieve.

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True God Cheon Seong Gyeong Book one Chapter One, section 7

The Power of Witnessing

Why do you want to witness? Once you have a successful experience, no one can keep you from witnessing.

When you witness, you open the way for others to be connected back to God who is their cause.  You help people find the correct path toward health and perfection.

Could there possibly be anything more valuable that you can give a person than the gift to connect directly to God?

A traffic cop directs the traffic when the street lights are not working properly and does so in an efficient way.  This is your function, too, when you witness the words of God.

You are in the position to tell people which direction they should go.

People would be grateful that they found someone like you who can guide them through the wilderness of this world!

You are the spiritual 'traffic cop' that understands the great power of the universal law.  You realize that this law is about to collide with America's sinful ways.

Of course, you want to tell the citizens of this country as if you were telling them that a large asteroid was headed toward them.

You want to tell them to stop moving in the wrong direction, however people are ignorant to this fact and don't see what is about to happen.  Therefore, they just continue heading in the wrong direction.

You must explain to them why they have to stop and then show them sufficient reasons.

You have to explain to them, "If you go to the left, you will come to a decrepit bridge. If you go to the right, you will find a good highway."

People seek out those who really know which direction they should take.  

This could explain the phenomenon of celebrity.  People place celebrities on a pedestal just because it looks like they are headed in the right direction.

When people see that you know what you are talking about, they value you more.

If you guide people, you should do so with love.  Love them more than their own parents love them.  Once you love in this way, you find yourself in the center of love.  This is the greatest and most wonderful way to live.

When you live this pure way of life, you find yourself getting closer and closer to the central point, which is God.

Our original nature has the desire to return to the center, our cause.  The center is God's realm of love where we can live for eternity.  You were born for the purpose of returning to the center.  Every single person, whether they realize it or not, has a deep desire within him to return to God.

Unfortunately, people are constantly stopped by the influence's from the world which gradually distances them from the path toward God.  This is why those of conscience live in agony.  They want to go 'somewhere', but they don't know where or how to get there.

All most people know is that they are not fulfilled and they have a hole within them that cannot be filled with materials or false love.  It is a very painful existence.

Those who work hard with their mission everyday, may feel that their central figures may not realize their value.  That person should be aware that God and the universe do recognize his value, even better than his leaders.

The same is true of you.  You may work hard for the sake of others forgetting your own desires, but no one may acknowledge it.  Parents understand that feeling.  Still, you should know that God understands your situation and He appreciates what you do for His will.

The year's motto is "Victory of Home Church".  Home church is witnessing to 360 homes in your area and loving them as your own children.  The people in that area represent the people of the world, and as you shed tears and sweat for them, it is the same as doing the work for the world.

This foundation was laid by the 6,000 years of religious history.

When home church is done successfully, it enables us to launch ourselves like a rocket back to our source, God.

If it wasn't for this superhighway reaching toward God's heart, it would take thousands of years to retrace the steps through Biblical history to restore that foundation.

Instead, you are guaranteed by going in this direction, you can get back to God in a shorter time.  If it is not done here, it takes thousands of years once you enter spirit world to fulfill this mission.

Even though you may be yelled at or have doors slammed in your face, the value of this work is priceless.  The more tears you shed, even though others may not see your value, brings you closer to God.

This is the value of home church.


I have been pushing you in a certain direction, and I recognize that it is difficult for you in the Western culture to change yourselves.  Nevertheless, I push you forcefully to go a certain way. Why do you think I do this? Judged from a personal standpoint, I am losing much more than I am gaining. If I were living for my own benefit, I would never live in this way. I live this way because I know that I can teach you the solution to all the problems in life.


There is always a conflict between the true nature we inherited from God and the fallen, human nature we acquired by disobeying God.  You know deeply that your original, godly natural desires is to be with God.

Once you realize this fact, you don't say that you do not want to go that way because it is too difficult and let others do it.

Once you fully understand that your purpose is to go in the direction of God, it is normal to want someone to push you in that direction because we each have our weaknesses.  But someone who has to be constantly pushed to go in the right direction will never get there.

No matter the difficulty and the challenges to go the opposite way of our sinful selves, it is of the utmost importance to achieve our purpose and goal of returning to God.  Now, that we understand this, there should be less reason to complain.

Thus, you would not look for approval for your witnessing efforts.

God and the universe know that you are still far away from perfection.

You shouldn't want to hear a lot of praise.  You don't want to complain about your situation either.

You only want to go toward the goal, hoping to achieve it during your lifetime bringing others with you on this pathway toward world peace and restoration.

World peace begins with the individual.

This is really all you want if you understand how important it is to reach your perfection.

Those who resolve to go toward that goal, raise your hands. Thank you.



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This post rewritten from the speech Our Deep Desire of Our Original Nature

God's Word is Like Honey

Even though we were born into this world to accept it as is, we feel down deep that this is not the original way God wanted the world to be when He created humanity.

Originally, humanity had everything: God's ideal mind, God's body, God's love.  

Yet, after the fall we lost all of these including the blood lineage of God and inherited the lineage of Satan.  Our original mind understood that true love and value of God.

We have fallen far from the original idea of God's creation.  We are mere projections of the original creation.  When you can take back the original human dignity of personality, then Satan will be blocked.  This is good news.

For humankind what is the most deep, important point?  It is the mind.

The second is love. Looking from that particular viewpoint, all over the world, you cannot find anyone harmonized in mind and love.  We understand that clearly, however, we cannot attain that purpose easily.

Why?

Until the return of the Messiah, we did not understand this point clearly.  Religions have taught about disciplining the mind and love without truly understanding the root.  Satan uses our ignorance to the true original way God intended and presents his fallen, hell as good, exciting and a stimulating atmosphere.

He makes the surface of the ungodly world, Satan's armament which fell down from heaven look colorful and makes it seem as if it is the true way.

When God looks down on such a miserable situation in which His children are in, He waits a tedious amount of time in history when this would occur.  That time is now where Satan's ideals and will are absolutely seen as the truth instead of God's ideal and God's will.

Satan accused: "Why can God keep the beautiful creation foundation? I cannot permit that kind of duality. Wipe it out! If God doesn't take the restoration way, I'll take the creation for myself."

The principled viewpoint is this: no matter how strong is God's power, Satan cannot deny my way-I will proclaim it, I will do it step by step, reclaiming the individual foundation, family foundation, Father's holy blessing after that, and after that the family pulling over the representatives of Satan's family.

You are wrong; you have belonged to Satan's side.

Make yourself independent; after that follow the Messiah. Otherwise you will perish. I make my point clearly; but they ask, "Well, what did you say? We are very happy. Throughout history inherited this way of life, and in the future we will go the same way. What are you talking about, making a more complicated situation? We don't like that! Go behind us!'

Father didn't accept that. Father took the consequences every time centering on God's law of conscience. I opened doors and left them open behind me. The route you have to follow is my way-the way I took has become the universal textbook.

If you can understand the contents of this textbook, you will be grateful forever. You cannot separate from those contents. If you take one taste, it is much too sweet, it's like honey. You cannot turn back."


Reverend Sun Myung Moon


You want more and more; it is that kind of situation.

When you get a taste of this true taste, no matter how your parents, friends, relatives go against you, you will never change your determination to go this way.

The Old Testament and New Testament are the main trunk, right? There are a great number of saints there. When they are coming down to assist Father's ministry, as well as your ministry, by the same token they are affecting their own denomination and horizontally those people come to assist you.

When the saints come down to help you and your community during this time, you will witness many miracles in your lifetime and in your own village, town and community.  Just test this out for yourself; just kick and create a problem.  Initiate something and then you will see the most strange power come to act upon you.

Those who follow the true way have been persecuted and live with the mindset of a persecuted minority.  When you meet someone, your heart will start pounding in anticipation, "What can I do if something happens? What can I do if some satanic action occurs?"

Yet we should not feel this way.

Father taught that the opposite will happen.  You are the tower of strength and the absolute plus.  People will attest upon meeting you that you are a mighty power or what mighty words you speak.

Their heart will pound because we have the most powerful weapon:  Divine Principle, True Love and True Parents! Amen!

The entire world power was up against the Messiah's lonely power.  Only, this lone power is much greater and heavier.  The Messiah is like a 5th degree black belt and the other side is just a beginner's white belt in karate.  The power on the good side is so heavy that it won't just tilt the balance over, but it will also turn it around.

One must trust and believe in the words of the Messiah, not just consider the words.  If you were have a jar full of sweet honey, would you feel good eating it all on your own or would you like to share the same honey with everyone?

God's words are as honey.  The more you share it the more they will want to have more honey.  You would not just give them honey, but you would give them eternal life.

With the word of the Divine Principle, we have a honey factory of truth.  This universal raw material is in abundance with no end.  You can ask for more supply and the Messiah will make jar, after jar after jar.

So the conclusion is this: "Yes, that is the only truth. Father we have no choice except to obey and follow you; we will live and die for you." Those who do, will you raise your hands and pledge? Now shake your hands, like an earthquake. We are uniting the entire world.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Let Us Inherit Victory.

The Starting Point of Love

At the beginning of this blog about 9 months ago, I brought up the notion of perfection.  Is it possible for one to be perfected?  Originally, God created Adam and Eve to reach perfection through full maturity before they consummated in the giving of their fruits of love.

Wouldn't an absolute, almighty being want to have an absolute, perfect being in which to have relations or a corrupted being?  Of course, if God had planned for humanity to live in the perfect world known as the Garden of Eden and had no other choice, but to throw us out after humanity's mistake, would He give up His dream and desire to fulfill the ideal of His creation?

I don't think God would give up.  Therefore, throughout history, God strives to bring humanity back to their original position before the Fall.  He brought religion, countless saints, and the Messiah to turn humanity away from the fallen path we have inherited.

Since our first ancestors misused love away from God, what is the starting point of true love?


The Perfection of the individual

An individual cannot attain perfection by knowledge, power or money.

Rather, perfection is realized through love -- not vulgar love, but the original love. By this love everything is perfected.

Perfection can only be realized through love.  Not just any kind of love but the original love.  Through this love, everything is perfected.  We each are born with five senses: sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell.  Each senses should be centered on perfected love.  This means that every sensation of our eyes, nose, mouth, hands and so forth should be perfected centering on love.

One cannot abide in that state by oneself. One must be relating ever more closely with a counterpart. One's counterpart is ever changing, and the feelings coming from one's counterpart are ever changing.

When our five senses become one centering on love we then experience the world in a state of ecstasy.  We would be enraptured by our surroundings and lovingly take in the world around us.

God created the mind and body based on love. 

For an individual to become perfect, these must become one. An individual grows to maturity through their eternal give and take action.

The quality of love can fill an enlarged space or shrink to an infinitely small point.  This is heavenly love.  Through the eyes of love, it does not matter if something is big or small.  Small things have their value in small packages and large things have their value in a big package.  This is God's desire to create such a world of love.

To begin the process of perfecting an individual one must start from love then mature centering on love.  This process resembles a bud growing into fruit. Then when the person attains the proper standard of love, God will dwell in his future marriage.  Until his love has matured, there is no basis upon which to bear good fruit.

Everything is created and sustained based upon the law of love. 

Fruit is produced after a flower blooms, the stamen and pistil within the flower engage in give and take action creating a circular motion.  This is the same in the animal world and among human beings.  Everything in creation can only reach completion through the relationship of love, therefore, every entity can become perfect only through love.

When you become one with the core of the realm of God's love, mind and body can be united and become mature.  This is the process how a person who has not fallen grows toward individual perfection.

The perfection of an individual means the unification of mind and body. 

When the mind in the subject position engages in give and take action with the body in the object position, then this unified mind and body becomes the object of God. 

The mind should be unchanging forever.  The mind tends to focus on heaven and the body tends toward the world.

This is based upon the Cosmic Teaching and calls upon us to unite the incorporeal and corporeal worlds.  If a person wants to rule the cosmos, shouldn't they have a united mind and body?  Without a united mind and body, that person will perish.

what should they center on?  The mind and body should unite centered on God and then you become the external God reflecting His inner and outer nature.  How does one unite the mind to a fallen body?  We should center this unity upon love.


You can be your own worst enemy if you cannot unite your mind and body.

The perfection of an individual starts from the point where he or she makes a vertical relationship with God.  It is faith of the parent-child relationship.

What is individual perfection in this day?  As God loves us, this is the law of the Principle. We must also love God because love is only realized when subject and object give and take, there is no separation between God and His children.  This is the starting point for individual perfection.

We should establish a tradition of mutual love, respect and attendance of God as the vertical center.  Then we receive his love as His sons and daughters.

One should fulfill their individual responsibility on their way to individual perfection.  Before God can fully display His love for fallen, unclean man and woman, we must first perfect our character.

What do you think perfection of character means? It means to become a person who can fulfill his or her responsibility. That is to say, one must first be restored to one's original position before the Fall and then reach perfection, finally capable of fulfilling one's responsibility. This process involves a revolutionary change in character.

Since God is the subject partner to love, He requires an absolute object partner in which to have give and take action of love.

Individual perfection means the perfection of character. 

Once you clearly understand that you can obtain true love only after you have perfected your character, you must bear in mind that there is no other way to go besides the way of perfecting your character.

Once a person fulfills their responsibility and become mature people before God in a position to praise and love Him, he or she realizes the perfection of character.    The only way to obtain true love is by perfecting our fallen, sinful character.

People who live externally only in the satanic world has no connection to the realm of heart.

Once you have gone through a revolution of character, then and only then will you be led to true love.  One will never be able to reach perfection as long as they remain selfish, self-centered, have worldly greed, attachment to children, and having cultural superiority.  These are Satan's traps.

To become mature in character we must deny everything in the satanic world, by denying every worldly thing and bear much persecution.  Those who think centered on themselves and not God remain tied to the satanic realm.  Once you inherit God's heart and reached a perfected character, then you can connect with God's standard of character.

We must become people who can meet the standard of the original perfected character by continuously reforming ourselves and fulfilling our given responsibilities.

The Divine Principle, Unification Thought can make you reform and perfect yourself delving into the depths, pains and truths of God's heart.

To reform this world, we must perfect our character one hundred percent. Otherwise, we cannot reach the level of perfect joy.

What if war ended and there was peace all over the world.  Each one of us would not experience perfect joy as long as memories of the Fall remain in us.  How can we call it World Peace if when we go home we cannot be happy or love our wife or children fully because of sin?  We must erase the notion that human beings fell and become beings who are more than one hundred percent perfect.

Where is love's embarkation point, love's encampment, and the place of love's safe settlement?

Among you, some might hope that it is your mind and body. In fact, if your mind and body become the place where God's love can settle safely, then you will become the perfect encampment for unification.

God can safely settle in the mind and body then you become the perfect encampment for unification.  You become the object of God's love and become God's direct son who will inherit the family business which is the enterprise of heaven and earth.  When God witnesses this day wouldn't He cry tears of gratitude welcoming you proudly, "Oh, my son!"?


Where does love start?

We must be able to correspond with the harmony of heaven and earth and carry out our responsibility.

Love begins from a perfected individual after going through adolescence and become qualified to love the opposite sex.  We must correspond to heaven and earth and carry out our responsibility.  However, Adam and Eve did not begin their family in this way.  Their love could not happen where heaven and earth could unite.

They did not have the destined love, but united centered on satanic love.  Every human descended from the first parents who never tasted God's true love.  We do not even understand the concept of a world of true love.  We must each prepare a foundation of true love centered on God, then he comes down for the first time with His love.

God looks down at humans as His masterpiece and cannot help but loving them when He sees them love each other and makes a way for people to join in relationships of love.  God existed first as the Word and thereafter creating all things, created human beings on the last day.  God created Adam as His object partner and the female Eve as Adam''s object partner.

Centering on God, Adam and Eve in the position of subject and object partners are to make a relationship of love. At the same time, God and the two human beings, Adam and Eve, would make a relationship of subject and object partners.

Were Adam to make a subject-object relationship with God, without making a subject-object relationship with Eve, he would not be able to possess God's eternal love, nor could he exist eternally. By only making a relationship with God, Adam would only be able to move in a straight line. The same would apply if he related only with Eve.

Eternity and perfection are obtained not from linear motion, but require spherical motion. To change from linear motion to spherical motion, Adam also needs to make a relationship with Eve as his object partner. Adam alone cannot establish the harmony of life and love.

Everything in creation exists based on movement through three points or it will not be perfect or eternal.    Adam was to approach God through His object Eve and Eve through Adam, not through a straight line.  This way, they would proceed in a spherical movement.  To approach Eve, they would have to have a love relationship, because by himself he does not have the strength to approach God.

We know that Adam and Eve chose love outside of God's realm, but what if they had reached perfection and had completely matured as man and woman to receive the marriage blessing of God instead of getting kicked out.

They would have centered on one love and become Mother and unite with the entire universe.  We see the opposite in our environment in these Last Days.  They would have united with God and have initiated a new beginning in the universe, in heaven and earth.

How could this begin.  The starting point of a cosmos of peace was to be God's love.

Where would be the origin of this God-centered unified love?

God had originally intended that Adam and Eve would mature and embrace all things in heaven and earth.   Their hearts would have overflowed with happiness, enraptured in God's love.    Their love would have hope for tomorrow and be big enough to embrace all future generations.  This would be the starting point for true love to appear uniting man and woman centering on God's love.  By not reaching this level, the starting point of unified love does not appear.

After an individual achieves perfection as a spouse in the conjugal relationship, we should receive public recognition center on God's love to establish the true ideal.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Perfection of True Love

Textbook: Blessing and Ideal Family Chapter, "Perfection of the Individual"

Seven Principles for Loving Relationships

We speak a lot about the importance of one obtaining mind and body unity.  This principle fosters and furthers true love when it is centered on God.  It is one of seven such principles that underpin both the natural and human worlds.

“There is not a single thing that lacks an inherent principle,” writes the Confucian philosopher Chu Hsi

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There are principles and a natural law that govern the nature of each existence.

The principles that govern the natural world and the human world have many parallels to one another.  This is because they both have a single origin, God.  The difference is that humanity has been given free will in order to choose to live in accordance with their own God-given natures or not.

From a different perspective, these principles also reveal much about the Creator to us:

Since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made.

Romans 1:19-20


The Divine Principle gives insight about how true love has a counterpart in the world which tells us a lot about God's characteristics.  We will first define these principles and the general principle that is active within the larger universe.


Principles for True Love

1. Maturing Through Responsibility

As each person fulfills the responsibility of true love, they grow into the fullness of humanity.

Everything in the universe automatically grows in maturity ... except humans.  A person's reaches the mind's potential when the individual exercises his own portion of responsibility.  This portion or free will has been equated to 5% where God's responsibility is 95%.  Human's portion though greatly smaller than God's, take 100% effort in order to fulfill.

Responsibility is a rudder to steer a person into a life of goodness and morality. 

Character educator Thomas Lickona boiled virtues education down to the two major ones of “Respect” and "Responsibility".

He said that educators had found over and over again that respect and responsibility covered all of the virtues.  Responsibility is the major umbrella virtue and is pivotal to a fulfilled life.  It encompasses the development of most other virtues needed for growth of an individual.

When we look at responsibility from the Principle point-of-view, we see that it is a gift from God.  This allows man to become participants in their own creation instead of being born 'ready made'.  God gave us chose in responsibility for the enhancement of human beings instead of making everything automatic which is found in nature.

Reverend Moon has said that if God intervened too much in humankind’s responsibility, their
"honor and dignity would be nullified".  It would be like a mother or father that held onto did all of their child's homework or never let go of the handlebars as their child learns to ride a bike holding them up instead of learning on their own eventually.

As the common saying goes, “What you are is God’s gift to you. What you become is your gift to God.”

We have a responsibility together with God to create and shape ourselves into the types of people we want and are meant to be.  We will do better with our growth when we take responsibility and participate in creating our own destinies.


2. Mind and Body Unity

The previous two posts give a more focused point on how to obtain Mind and Body Unity.

Mind and body unity—the mind leading the body—permits a person to give true love.

All things are composed of external and internal dimensions, with the external following the internal. In the case of humans, the body is to obey the mind.


3. Giving and Receiving

In the universe, all new forces and things arise from two entities forming a relationship and solidifying it through giving and receiving elements of themselves.

We generate and sustain true love through give and take action.  When we give first, investing continually and receiving, true love can come through.

Interaction is an amazing phenomenon.  When we observe nature entities from the subatomic particle to the solar system from male to female animals to symbiotic plants, we see that they all form a relationship and solidify it through giving and receiving of elements of themselves.

From a large nuclear reaction in the heart of the sun to biochemical reaction in a small living cell, what powers all movement is development and reproduction.

Even the very existence of things depends on give and take; the raging drama of a summer storm would not exist except for the intense give and take between hot and cold, high pressure and low, positively and negatively charged.

“All God’s creations borrow from each other,” reads a Jewish Midrash, “day borrows from night and night from day . . . the sky borrows from the earth, and the earth from the sky”

Exodus Rabbah 31.15

Interrelatedness and interdependence abound.



4. Subject and Object Partnership

When a person respects their role in a relationship and fulfills their responsibility, true love flows.  This is true whether they are initiating or responding, leading or supporting.  Every entity establishes one of these position in the course of every interaction in the universe.

People in the subject mode may provide leadership or impart knowledge; those in the object mode may offer support or receive instruction.  For instance, in the role of a family, the parents are in the subject partner role and the children are in the object partner position.

A physician is subject, patient is object, the quarterback is the subject partner in certain football plays while the teammates are his object partners.  A manager and the rest of the employees are also in a subject-object relationship.

Then what would the ultimate subject and object partnership be?  This would be between the Creator and His creation.  When God initiates in the relationship, His object partner which is humanity is to respond.

This is the import of the Christian declaration, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

John 3.16

 God inspires prophets with His Word; humankind responds by heeding it.



5. Masculine and Feminine Harmony 

All entities in nature exist in a paired structure—male and female or positively
and negatively charged—and each attracts its complementary opposite to form
productive relationships.

The harmony between men and women creates a base for true love to develop and become deeper.  Therefore, men and women need each other for support.

Masculine and feminine trying to find balance in order to unite expresses a principle that runs throughout all of existence.  When these two polarities harmonize and give off a beautiful tension, it fills the universe with energy, structure, life, beauty and joy.

We see this exampled in a white frosty mountain overlooking a green valley, a peacock with colorful long tail feathers on display to attract a peahen who in turn will bear his young.  An electron weighs less than a thousandth of a proton, yet they precisely balance to comprise an atom.

Reverend Moon has said, “Beauty arises from the fusion of extremes into a harmonious oneness".


6. Investing Towards Oneness

There is an innate want for unity between complementary partner which initiates the effort needed to realize true love.  Complementarities like male and female begin as separate beings in the world but are drawn into oneness.

We see these natural uninhibited occurrences arise between polarities in nature, but when we look in the human world of man, we see various conflicts.  In real life, men and women are meant to unite their opposite attributes, but do not easily get along.  At times they may seem to be enemies.

If you were to put a group of men and women together in the same room, you will find that the conversation will lean toward the differences and confusion between men and women and possibly their relationships.

“Women talk too much,” “men are so insensitive,” “females are just a heap of emotions,” “all men think about is sex”—the complaints are predictable.

The history of men and women is fret with misunderstandings, mistrust, abuse and exploitation.  One gender has taken advantage of the other's need and natural dependence and used their gifts to overpower the other for eons.

Men have bullied women with their physical strength, women have controlled men through their sexual allure cause this clash between the sexes. This evil legacy began in the very first family at the beginning of history which has been taught in all the great traditions.

This disunity between men and women is also due to the different "culture" that each gender shares. Tons of books speak about the fact that women and men live, think and communicate differently from the other.

From God's point of view this was not meant for disharmony or for power struggle between the two genders, but for them to unite and naturally arises during the course of each gender's development.


7. Unity Around a Higher Purpose

Unity between people when they focus on a higher purpose creates the basis for true love.  When beings have a shared purpose, this will lead toward unity.  In hierarchies, individual purposes serve the whole.

The most basic of shared projects is the relationship itself.

Family members, teammates and business partners may often wisely make substantial sacrifices for the sake of their alliance, what psychologist Terry Hargrave calls “we-ness.”

The vitality of this “we-ness” depends on how much the participants can favor the interest of the relationship over their own interests, and seek to reach their personal goals and meet their individual needs through the relationship instead of around or in spite of it.

Any good sports team knows this.

“In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity,” says legendary University of Alabama Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant. “Every player must put the team first—ahead of personal glory.”

Long wed couples know this too and make many sacrifices for the marriage. Lovemaking within a caring marriage is a metaphor for this idea:

Each partner seeks to satisfy the other and ultimately comes to surrender to their union.  Ego can get in the way of this union, but one should recognize that rather than losing anything in this surrender, each self gains deep joy and a meaningful connection.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Where Does Love Begin

Text rewritten and derived from the textbook: True Love, Chapter Mind and Body Unity

Spiritual Food or Die Trying

I believe every human has once seen or heard the biblical phase, "Man Cannot Live By Bread Alone."  For those who do not know, God's word or law is like food for the spirit or soul of every man giving life.

Since a man, who was created by God's word, fell as a result of losing the word, he must be recreated by the word.

That is God's word of love, God's word of life and God's word of lineage.

The principle law is more precious than anything else. Have you ever thought of the principle being more precious than eating your meals, wearing your clothes, or sleeping? You should have viewed the principle as something absolute, and believed in the principle with a more precious and sacred attention, than anything else in the world; however, we as humans could not live up to this standard. Before God, we should all repent.

We must breathe, spiritually, every day. How do we do this?

Just like you have meals daily, you must connect with God's word. You must place more emphasis on connecting with the word than eating daily meals. You must emphasize the word as most important. Only then will you walk the path to Heaven.

Everyone has to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. However, it is more precious to receive spiritual nourishment, the word of God. The question for your life is this. How much will you nourish and grow your spiritual self, valuing God's word more than your daily meals.

You must understand God's word in your "chest" as soon as you understand it in your head. You also must understand it in your body as soon as you understand it in your chest. Then, you must understand it in your heart as soon as you understand it in your body.

It is no good if you act according to your own regard, while God's word remains only the words that you read. Don't many of us religious do this?  We preach the word to others, but don't fully follow it ourselves?  I'm not talking about hypocrisy, moreso, about how it is oftentimes hard to even recognize that we are not completely following the word because our spirit hasn't matured to what we preach yet.

We must become the manifestation of God's word.  Just as Jesus did. Many will say this is blasphemous to think we can be the same as Jesus.  Then why did he tell us to be perfect like our father is perfect?  Is it possible for fallen humanity to become perfect like Jesus?

Of course it is.  All of God's saints and Jesus gave us the word according to their time to guide us toward perfection.

How do we do this?

God's internal heart must become your internal heart. Namely, you must become the embodiment of your original mind.

We shouldn't feel guilty that we are not like Jesus, that we upset God's plans and stumble along the way.  Every human has an immature spirit that must be nourished and grown just like the human body.  The word is food for our spirit. 

This is why many who read the word and follow it as much as possible without judging others seem to be more stable and grounded in their life.  They are growing their spirit while others struggle throughout their days and seem on the brink of death and calamity all of the time.

Truth must be actualized. The truth should be maintained and perfected in living human beings. Otherwise, the truth may be taken and misused by Satan. Therefore, God does not reveal the new truth through his saints until all required conditions are met and the truth is manifested in reality.

This is why you see a progression of the truth heighten from Noah's time to Jesus's time.

God's word will bring a result of goodness and carry out the grace of resurrection and the grace of recreation wherever it is spread. So you must be people who are equipped with the word and who can liquidate evil, carry out the grace of resurrection, and command the execution of recreation.

Therefore, the place where such people, who are equipped with God's word, live together is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Jesus said to Satan, "It is written: 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"(Matthew 4:4) This is very real. Has God's champions lived until now because they labored? Or have they lived because of money? It is neither. They have lived by holding on to God's word.

God works through levels and stages - growth stages.  Everything in creation grows through stages.

First, is the era when you believe in God' word. Second, is the era when you practice God's word. Then, last is the era when you live your life -- your whole life -- centered on God's word. You will enter the era of living life. In order to transform this world into the Kingdom of Heaven, each of these steps should be followed faithfully. We will develop in the order from the era of faith, to the era of practice, and finally the era of living life.

The spirit world is a place where people live their lives centered on God's word. Since every action in your daily life is in accordance with the word, you must be disciplined here on earth. In other word, if you dislike the word of God, you should not eat your meal. You must enjoy and taste the spiritual nourishment more than your meals. Since the word is the eternal spiritual nourishment, you must be trained to develop the taste for the spiritual meals that last forever, while you live this limited earthly life.


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This is from a compilation of speeches titled "Our Attitude Toward God" given by Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon.