Eternal Life

1. Throughout their lifetimes, people live in their own way, according to their desires. “Living” refers to everyday life, whereas “lifetime” refers to one's entire life, that is, living one's whole life.

Furthermore, religious people use the words “eternal life.” Eternal life means not just living a lifetime on earth but a lifetime that continues forever. The way you connect your lifetime to eternal life is important.

This is your lifelong responsibility. In addition, your lifetime is determined by linking together your everyday life from one day to the next. (197-186, 1990.01.14)

2. Your lifetime consists of the connected, continuous days of your life. What determines the value of your entire life? It is not determined after you have lived your life to the end.

Your daily life, day by day, determines it. Therefore, you have to live life well. Living life well entails living the days that make up the entire course of your life in a meaningful way. When you say that you have lived well today, it means that today is a memorable day in your life that you can be proud of.

The day you can say you have lived well would surely be the most valuable day in your entire life. If you lived one worthwhile day, for your entire life that would remain an unforgettable day. Where does the concept of eternal life come from? (197-186, 1990.01.14)

3. God is the eternal subject being of love and the eternal root of love. It follows that the object partner of such a subject being would be eternal as well. Eternal love means you invest your whole life and forget that you have done so.

On the path of true love, even when you have invested your life and know you are dying, you still rejoice and try to invest it again.

Then who is the true owner, the true husband, the true teacher, and the true parent? The one who invests his life and forgets he has invested and who tries to live for the sake of others again and again is the true parent, the true teacher, and the true owner.

Heaven and earth resonate with someone who reaches such a state. The words spoken by Buddha, “Throughout all the heaven and earth, I alone am the honored one,” refer to his having reached that state. When your mind and body are united, and you enter heaven's vast and infinite realm of love, you see that the entire universe brightens up.

In other words, the realm of resonance opens up. However, human beings, who were supposed to have eternal life, fell and lost their spiritual life. Had they been united with God in true love and connected to His life and lineage, they would have automatically attained eternal life.

There would have been no need for a savior. There would have been no need for religion. Our minds and bodies would have been united. (213-080, 1991.01.14)

4. We were created to be the objects of God's love, the object partners of God, the absolute subject. God deems true love more precious than even His being. He is the absolute and eternal center of life. His ideal, based on true love, is even more eternal. We are the objects of that love. What are the attributes of love?

Love is the unity of a subject partner and an object partner. It can unify a nation. It allows you to share any place with God and follow Him anywhere. You can inherit all of His wealth, His eternal life, and even His heart of love.

You can inherit God's heart of love, which is with all created things and dwells in the hearts of all people. How precious you are! I went through a miserable course to discover this, and I have come to stand on that foundation.

What a joyous thing this is. It is a sublime and noble position that cannot be exchanged for anything. It is an amazing grace, whereby I can stand in the same position as God and share the position of eternal true love.

This concept of eternal life cannot be found in Korea or the world outside. I was born with eternal life and am destined to go and enjoy eternal life in the spirit world. It is an instant leap. (216-115, 1991.03.09)

5. We, the object partners of true love of the Eternal Being, exist on a different level from other living things on earth. We live within a restricted space on earth and cannot move so freely, but the spirit world exists in a higher dimension, and we can do anything there. Furthermore, we can transcend time.

If we have a desire for something based on love, we can obtain it anytime, anywhere. There are no limits or bounds. The place where God resides is the original hometown; it is the original hometown of the parents.

It is a place where we can do anything. When we go to the spirit world, we will be free. We will become completely one with that world. We will enter it as easily as winking. (216-116, 1991.03.09)

6. When people have completed a masterwork with devotion, they keenly desire to preserve it and leave it to their descendants for many generations to come. What about God? Would He love humankind, born as His beloved sons and daughters, for a little while and then stop?

No, He would desire to love them eternally. This is why if we could become perfect and receive God's love eternally, then God would wish to keep us by His side for all eternity. Because this is the way the Absolute Being receives joy, people must exist eternally, as He does.

It is not enough unless they remain with Him for all eternity. If our ancestors Adam and Eve had become such people, they would have attained perfection and all of God's wishes would have been fulfilled.

The perfection of Adam and Eve would have been the complete fulfillment of all God's cherished hopes for human beings, whom He created as the center of all things. (41-023, 1971.02.12)

7. How can we grasp the concept of eternal life? It is through love. The path of faith is not preparation for one's life on earth but rather for one's life in the eternal spirit world. When people pass the age of forty or fifty and the day of their death draws near, they become serious about eternal life.

The older people become, the more serious they are. Our ideology fades as we grow older, but when we hold the concept of eternal life, we become more serious as we grow older.

Thus, in the future, only religious doctrine can manage the world. No matter how often our environment changes, regardless of what comic or tragic circumstances come our way, we will be able to handle any problem if we have a firm concept of eternal life.

God created Adam and Eve as His object partners of love. That is why we need to become objects of love and live as such. It is not enough to just talk about it; we need to feel it and experience it. (230-023, 1992.04.15)

8. Before anything else, you have to know God. You have to know undoubtedly that God exists. Next, you have to know clearly what kind of place the spirit world is. If you do not know about the spirit world, you cannot know about God. Because Adam and Eve lost true love when they fell, we lost eternal life.

That is why God, the spirit world, and eternal life are the key issues. The fact is, only when people know God and the spirit world and form an eternal relationship with both can they have eternal life. Since God lives eternally, it naturally follows that His sons and daughters should also live eternally. (328-174, 2000.08.02)

9. The most important thing is eternal life. However, people do not know whether the spirit world exists or not. If you came to understand that you would inevitably live for eternity, you would not just live for yourself or sin under any circumstances.

If you do not know about this, you can never go to heaven, regardless of what religion you believe in. You cannot go to God's ideal world. Therefore, you must invest in true love and true life. (205-261, 1990.09.09)

10. If there is a being who eternally lives for the sake of others in the eternal world, that being will become the eternal owner. Who is such a being? It is God. Since God is our Father, the entire universe is drawn to us. Eternal life can be found here.

Eternal life does not exist in a place that is not like that.

This is why the Bible says, “Those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.” (Matt. 16:25)

This means that you have to overcome death, for without overcoming death you cannot truly live. (205-259, 1990.09.09)

Our eternal life is determined through the practice of true love

11. When God seeks an absolute object of love, that object can only be human beings. Thus in Korea, we have the saying: “Among all creation, the most precious are human beings.”

If we conclude that we are the Creator's objects of eternal love, we can logically say that, as object partners united with that love, we also live eternally. Thus, eternal life is the automatic result.

An important religious question is how to establish the logic of eternal life based on the relationship of love. Eternal life is not within a man or a woman, nor is it within God. Eternal life is in the love of God. (218-211, 1991.07.29)

12. No matter who they are, all people desire the best. When you reach the highest position, God belongs to you, and you belong to Him. Then you become God's child, and you also become God Himself, and the universe is yours. If there were something that God created to be loved and treasured, would He throw it away after one day, ten years, or a hundred years, or would He want to keep it for eternity?

God would want it to be with Him eternally. So it is with humankind. Would it be good if we were born and then died and that was it, or should we live eternally? People should live eternally. This is because we are the object partners whom the absolute God can appreciate and love absolutely.

If God liked us for only one or two days, ten years, or a hundred years and then threw us away, it would not be love. Love is such that the more you love, the more you wish to be together. (39-342, 1971.01.16)

13. What must we do? We have to live eternally. Isn't that good news? We live some eighty years in this evil world. While you may say that there is no difference between the death of an ant and that of a human being, there is a difference. We are different because we are spiritual beings.

How is it that we can become the lords of all creation? It is because our spirits do not age. All things can change. Even pure gold can change. The effects of weathering gradually wear it away. The only thing that is not like that is the mind. When it comes to remaining unchanged, the mind holds the highest authority. (159-278, 1968.05.19)

14. Eternal life becomes possible through true love. This is because the starting motive, the process, and the purpose of creation are all perfected through love. Results come about through a process. The perfection of the mind and body is possible only through true love.

Love is the only thing that can bring to fruition the ideal of the infinite origin, cause, and process. Only true love can do that. God exists eternally, not through money, power, or knowledge, but based on His intrinsic true love. He cannot experience joy alone.

He needs a partner. Even the almighty God is lonely by Himself. He desires vertical, horizontal, and front-and-back object partners. That is why it is impossible to walk the path to eternal life without true love, the love that leads to God. (218-134, 1991.07.16)

15. What is essential for eternal life? It is love, love! You cannot live eternally by yourself. Only love can be the basis of eternal life. At the same time, it is also the basis for the accomplishment of a purpose.

Since heaven and earth were created through love, we begin with love, we live with love, and in the end, the full glory of love must unfold. We should know that glory comes from love. (25-260, 1969.10.05)

16. When you live in the realm of true love you can go freely to God's dwelling place, the throne of the heavenly nation. You can become God's friend. God created humankind because of love.

Since He is the eternal God, the absolute God, and the immortal God, human beings who live in accord with love have eternal life. This is only logical. Thus true love is eternal. To attain eternal life, you need to live in that realm of true love. (211-273, 1990.12.30)

17. How do you live eternally? Christians say that you can attain eternal life and be saved by believing in Jesus, but that is far from the whole story. You can be saved only through love.

From the viewpoint of God's Principle of Creation, only a true person can be God's partner in love; hence, if you have true love you can have eternal life. Once you enter that realm of love, even while on earth you can envision your future home in the spirit world. (215-053, 1991.02.06)

18. We need to be conscious that we all live eternally. In addition, we are people who practice true love; we practice that love on earth. Everything we do on earth, even working in a factory, is connected to our eternal life.

Therefore, we should think, “The work I am doing is training for eternal life and provides opportunities to cultivate eternal life.” You will always need eternal life and true love. You will need them eternally. (216-127, 1991.03.31)

19. All beings exist in pairs for the sake of love. This is to achieve the harmony of love. God first requires eternal life, then eternal love. From this perspective, if God is eternal, He requires an eternal partner.

Where in the universe is that eternal partner? We naturally conclude that human beings live eternally based on the pair system. We require eternal life. Why do we need to live eternally?

Since we are to perfect the ideal of love through the pair system, and since we require God's love and perfect love through a mutual relationship with Him. Thus, we inevitably live eternally. (111-109, 1981.02.01)

20. When the sun rises, all buds turn toward it. Buds on plants, on shrubs, and even on big trees, all turn toward the light of the sun. People are born from love, they grow up in love, they live in love, and they die in love. However, they do not just disappear.

Since God, the subject being, is eternal, unchanging,g and unique when we become His object partners of love, we also live eternally. The theory of eternal life originates from this point. It does not begin from life. (142-145, 1986.03.08)

21. Your sons and daughters are the fruit who represent you. That is why you cannot help but love them. Since God loves us, as His sons and daughters we also represent Him. Eternal life is connected through love.

Therefore, you need to live in an environment of love to create an environment conducive to eternal life. To attain the substantial realm of love, we need to have a substantial experience of love. (218-135, 1991.07.14)