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1. What do you think is God's ultimate purpose for creating human beings? Simply put, it is to experience joy through relating with ideal families perfected by true love. What does an ideal family look like?
When God first created human beings, He made Adam represent all men and Eve represent all women, with the intention that they become owners of true love.
Then how would they have become the model of true love? Since the parent-child relationship with God is the model of absolute peace, by attending to God as their Parent, they would live as one ideal family with God, experiencing eternal joy.
2. God created Adam and Eve as the first ancestors of humankind to form the model family and establish the ideal of peace. He committed himself completely to raising them as His son and daughter.
They were to encapsulate the entire cosmos, mediate between the spiritual and physical worlds, be lords of creation, and join with Him through true love, true life, and true lineage.
3. If Adam and Eve had become God's prince and princess, they would have had a parent-child relationship with God and inherited everything from God. When such children become a perfected couple, centered on true love, and their family lives in attendance to God, that family will exemplify peace and the ideal.
When a man and a woman, each as half of the whole, become one body as a perfected object partner to God, they represent the completion of God's ideal love.
To put it another way, God intends for us to reach perfection and attain limitless value, centered on true love. This perfection of true love completes the creation of the ideal world of eternal love.
Absolute sex
4. To establish a model ideal family of peace, Adam and Eve had a necessary condition to set. God, the Absolute Being, created us as His children to instill in us absolute values based on an absolute standard. We have to follow the heavenly way based on that absolute standard.
To follow our destined life course, we have to attend to God, the Absolute Being, as our Parent. In other words, to perfect ourselves in resemblance to God and obtain the stature of people of character who can be called sons and daughters of the Absolute Being, we have to follow the path based on the absolute standard God has determined. This standard is what I mean by absolute sex.
5. The first stage is to maintain absolute sexual purity before getting married. After we are born, we go through a process of growth. We pass through infancy and childhood in a safe and secure environment, embraced in our parents' love and protection.
We then enter adolescence, a dynamic period in which we form more complex relationships with those around us and with all things of creation. Thursday, as we start on the path to perfection, internally through the maturing of our character, and externally by reaching adulthood.
Yet, we truly must fulfill one requirement, which is to maintain our purity, adhering to the model of absolute sex. God gave us this responsibility as the means to fulfill the ideal of creation. This heavenly path is the way to perfect conjugal love.
6. What was the only commandment God gave to Adam and Eve, the first ancestors? It was The commandment and blessing are to maintain an absolute standard of sexual purity until God approves of their marriage.
In the Bible, God told Adam and Eve that they would surely die if they ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This signifies that had they observed Heaven's commandment and refrained from eating, they would have perfected their characters and, as co-creators, stood with God, the Creator, as His equals.
Furthermore, God would have bequeathed to them dominion over the creation. They would have become the lords of the universe, enjoying eternal and ideal happiness. God asked them to preserve their purity so that He could bless them in marriage as His true children.
They would thus have become true husband and wife, then true parents through giving birth to true children. Everything was to have been done within the realm of absolute sex, based on God's Principle of Creation.
The profound truth within God's commandment has been hidden throughout history: we must inherit and live by absolute sex, the model intrinsic to God's ideal of creation. This is so that we might perfect our individuality as God's children and establish ourselves as lords of creation.
7. The second stage is the perfection of love between husband and wife. More precious than life is the heavenly law of absolute fidelity. Husband and wife are eternal partners, given to each other by Heaven.
Through having children, they become co-creators of true love, true life, and true lineage, and the origin of that which is absolute, unique, unchanging, and eternal. It is a heavenly principle that one person alone can never give birth to a child, even in a thousand years.
If two people had preserved their purity before marriage and were bound together in marriage by God, how could they ever go astray and deviate from the way of Heaven? People are different from animals; if they understand God's purpose in creating them as His children, they will realize that deviating from heavenly law constitutes unimaginable betrayal and defiance of the Creator.
It is a path of self-destruction on which they dig their graves. Resulting from the Fall, this path leads us outside the realm of the ideal of creation.
8. The absoluteness of conjugal love is the greatest blessing that Heaven has bestowed on humanity. Without adherence to the principle of absolute sex, the path to the perfection of one's character and spiritual maturity is inaccessible.
Furthermore, unless Heaven implants the principles of absolute sex within a true family of perfected individuals, God can't appear with dignity as the God of substance and personality. For God, the Absolute Being, to have direct dominion over our lives and to live with us in joy, we who were created as His object partners and children must create perfect families based on the standards of absolute sex.
Only in a family that is rooted in the principles of absolute sex it is possible to create ideal relationships by the original ideal.
This affects the three generations represented by grandparents, parents, children, and grandchildren. Please understand clearly that God's eternal life and our eternal lives depend on this foundation.
9. If Adam and Eve had achieved individual perfection of character by upholding the principles of absolute sex by God's Will, and come together as husband and wife through His Blessing, they would have attained oneness with Him. God would have dwelt within their union.
Their children also would have been linked to this holy order of love, enjoying a direct relationship with God as their Parent. In other words, the marriage of the perfected Adam and Eve, based on their absolute purity, would have been God's marriage.
God is forever God, but at the same time, Adam and Eve were to have become His incarnation. They would have become God's body. God would have settled inside their minds and hearts to become the True Parent of humankind in both the spiritual and physical worlds, based on their conjugal love.
Cross-cultural Blessed marriage
10. Why do we need to marry? It is to claim an owner's position. A man or woman alone can only be one half of the whole. That is how God created us. For that reason, He has interchanged the ownership of the reproductive organs, the love organs.
The owner of the wife's sexual organ is her husband, and the owner of the husband's is his wife. Only when each is rooted in true love for the sake of the other are they in the position of the owner of their spouse.
In other words, people only become complete individuals when they have secured an owner's position, and this happens through marriage.
11. For what reason are we restoring the position of the owner of the reproductive organ? It is to possess God's love. He is the subject of three great loves. As the owner of the universe, He is the Owner, Teacher, and Parent of true love.
This is the true meaning of the “three great subject partners principle.” The life of a true, model family creates these teachings and truths, and its expansion will transform the society, nation, the world, and even the universe into the peaceful kingdom of the model, ideal family.
12. Now you are in a different position. The path is now open wide for you to change your lineage through the Holy Wine Ceremony with the permission of the True Parents of humankind.
The cross-cultural marriage Blessing is the best way to restore people to the position of children of God through the conversion of lineage. It is the revolutionary work of creating the heavenly lineage on a whole new level, transcending barriers of race, culture, nationality, and religion.
It is an act that severs all relationships of enmity. Furthermore, it is the sacred rite of the change of lineage, through which all can be re-created through the True Parents, the King, and Queen of Peace, the substantial manifestations of God, who enable Him to exercise His providence in the present world.
13. Ladies and gentlemen, lineage is more important than life and more precious than love. Life and love come together to create lineage. Lineage cannot be established if either is missing.
Therefore, among the three – love, life, and lineage – lineage is the fruit. God's lineage contains the seed of true love and the body of true life.
14. Ladies and gentlemen, please place your hand over your heart and quietly ponder this question. Is there any other way to deliver this world from the war and conflict we see around us?
Is there a way that would be more certain than by cross-cultural marriage among enemy clans or, going even a step further, among enemy nations, to create a global family in which there is no hatred?
Therefore, you will need to teach clearly that the cross-cultural marriage Blessing is the ultimate means to establish a peaceful, ideal world here on earth, so that your families and clans can all join the holy ranks of those blessed through the cross-cultural marriage.
A life of true love
15. To resemble God, the original being of true love, we have to become people of true love, owners of true love who practice true love. This is the way each of us can become true parents.
16. Ladies and gentlemen, you should now devote yourselves to pursuing only one thing: a life of true love. In your life, you have to love God more than Adam and Eve did, and more than Jesus did.
By putting true love into practice, you bring your mind and body into perfect harmony and establish the realm of true love. In other words, you have to perfect a true family consisting of three generations: grandparents, parents, and children living together in true love. Only those who live such a life of true love are in heaven.
17. What kind of love is true love? The essence of the absolute God's true love is not found in having others serve you. Rather, it is when you serve and live for the sake of others. It is love that you give, forget that you have given, and continue to give endlessly. It is love that you find pleasure in giving.
Furthermore, it is the love of a mother nursing her baby at her breast. Besides, it is the love expressed when a child happily serves his or her parents out of filial piety. It is the love God expressed in creating humankind; an absolute, unique, unchanging, ng and eternal love, given unconditionally.
18. True love is the source of peace and happiness, and it sustains a spiritual order based on the aim of serving the common good. True love is the source and the center of this universe. It has the power to make the one who wields it the master of the universe.
True love is the root and symbol of God's Will and power. If you are bound together in true love, you will never grow tired of your partner. True love is the love that not only the entire universe, but even God, desires to follow.
The value of true love is in its power, which is strong enough to eradicate national, racial, and religious boundaries created by the descendants of the Fall.
That is why the absolute condition to enter the kingdom of heaven is a life that has been lived for the sake of others, that is, a life of true love.
19. God's true love is absolute, unique, immutable, and eternal. Whoever practices true love will live with God, share His happiness, and enjoy the right to participate as an equal in His work and the right to inherit from Him.
As such, a life lived for the sake of others, which brings forth a new peaceful family based on God's ideal model of peace, is the absolute prerequisite for entering the kingdom of heaven.
Sun Myung Moon