What a question you may have asked once or twice in your life. Many times we get answers based on the person's answering own experience. They may be one word answers that are simply that...words that we do not really realize fully.
So. why are we here? Why are you here on earth? Why be born? Why not just have spirit world where we just come into being and no one dies?
Simply put from God's point of view, we were not born for ourselves. Men were not born for themselves but for a woman.
Neither was born for themselves. Even though humanity was not born just for the pleasure and ideal of self, we have a world where we assert our own desires and will. This ideology focuses on "I, myself" and should be demolished. Once it is demolished, the world will become unified for the first time in human existence no matter how far fetched this idea is.
Those who focus on their partners happiness as the standard are happy people. So, wherever they may be, they will not be lonely, but happy.
Why did God set this standard of existing for the sake of another person? Before we get to the bottom of this questions, lets seek another question.
If someone sacrificed 100 percent of themselves for you at the risk of his life, would not your original mind tell you to return his kindness with only 50 just so you could keep the other 50 percent in your pocket or would you want to repay him with everything you have in return?
This is how our original mind works. It wants to return everything with a true, earnest heart more than 100 percent that you received. If a 100 percent given was requited with 110, then that 110 percent would be requited with 120 percent because the return is just as true and earnest as the first act.
When we see this, the process of eternity can be established. This is more like the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth which God intended from the very beginning. This is how eternity originates.
This principle had to be established so that prosperity could take place.
Even though ideals and love are more precious than life to human beings, we have come to believe that these attributes come from ourselves. We must clear this misunderstanding.
So, where do love and ideals come from? They come from our reciprocal partner.
Since this is the case, a law of living for the sake of others needs to be established in order for love and ideals to come into being. Since God, King of all wisdom anticipated the present consequences, He could not help but establish such a law.
Even though ideals and love are more precious than life to human beings, we have come to believe that these attributes come from ourselves. We must clear this misunderstanding.
So, where do love and ideals come from? They come from our reciprocal partner.
Since this is the case, a law of living for the sake of others needs to be established in order for love and ideals to come into being. Since God, King of all wisdom anticipated the present consequences, He could not help but establish such a law.
The concept of eternity is impossible when everyone lives for his or her own sake.
When we witness any object in motion, we can discern the greater push and pull force between the reciprocal partners and the faster the object moves.
God established the law of living for the sake of another person in order to bring about the existence of eternity.
Many of us would rather die than be under the control of another being or system such as those in a state of tyranny or communism. Even though this may be a true statement, people have been able to sustain happiness in the past when they were under the sovereignty of someone who lived for their sake.
When we enter spirit world, we will understand that God is the great Sovereign of the cosmos as well as the central being that exists in the heart of everything in the universe.
Yet, we go on day by day in society without truly understanding the idea of how blissful it is to be ruled by Him.
God understood that the real of unity which is more ideal than the world we live in could only be obtained through the principle of living for the sake of another person, who also lives for another.
Love does not begin from the self.
If a reciprocal partner did not exist, we would not be able to find love or the ideal. These two are more precious than life itself. We did not realize this until now.
In order to reach such a state, we must be humble to accept such a precious love and idea and live for the sake of others. Therefore, God had to establish the principle of living for another being.
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We cannot fulfill love when we are alone. So, where does it come into being? It comes from one's object partner. Therefore, we need to bow to and live for the sake of that object, because a very precious thing is coming to us and in order to receive it, we need to respect and live for the sake of the giver. Only when we are able to practice this altruism principle, can we receive love.
True love is the love that gives, forgets that it has given, and gives once again.
False love is a kind of love that gives as only part of a transaction in order to make a profit. This kind of love is a love that tells the receiver, since I gave you so much, you should give me more in return.
This kind of love, which in context is love, but it is false and originates with Satan.
When God created the world, He had a much better ideal than the one which was created when Satan gave his word to Eve.
God's original ideal for the world is our original homeland. It is a place that only welcomes those who live for God. It is a place where only those who were born, lived and died for others can enter. This is the fundamental characteristic and nature of our original homeland.
Therefore, God raised many religions throughout the course of history in order to train and teach people about the world He wanted to create outside of the Fall.
Religion taught people to historically teach people to be meek, humble and to sacrifice because these are the same laws in spirit world.
Every human is destined to pass on into the next world and we have to be trained in order to prepare for that world while we are still living and breathing on this earth.
This is why the more advanced religions had emphasized a higher level of sacrifice and service in order to raise people to align with the spirit world through their daily lives.
We have all at one time out of frustration may have asked, "Oh, what is this life?!". This issue lies within establishing a view of life, the nation, the world, the universe, and consequently to the level of God.
How do we establish this?
The more important question is how can we create a system where the priorities of life and external things are connected to such a system of a Godly view of life.
The most valuable view of life would be that you exist for all of humanity, the whole world, the nation, society, family, spouse, and children.
To be able to create happiness from such a position reflects the best outlook on life. To have this knowledge, we can thus believe that world peace is possible.
God wanted world peace from the beginning in the Garden with his daughter Eve and His son Adam. Therefore, we will see God's original homeland come to fruition based on the principle of living for the sake of others.
To be able to create happiness from such a position reflects the best outlook on life. To have this knowledge, we can thus believe that world peace is possible.
God wanted world peace from the beginning in the Garden with his daughter Eve and His son Adam. Therefore, we will see God's original homeland come to fruition based on the principle of living for the sake of others.
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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book 10, Chapter 1, Section 5 |
