The Attributes of God

1. God is absolute, unique, unchanging, and eternal. These are His four attributes. Accordingly, every one of His creations is absolute and unique. Because each entity is absolute, God wants to place it in its absolute position. That is why all entities are unique and do not randomly intermix. The way of love is unique and, therefore, unchanging and eternal. (279-147, 1996.08.04)

God's main attributes

2. God is absolute, unique, and unchanging. Based on this, one should become the subject partner of absolute love, unique love, unchanging love, and eternal love. Such a person becomes a representative of God.

One who reflects God's attributes can become His representative. With what did God endow His partners when He created them? He endowed them with creativity that is absolute, unique, unchanging, and eternal. He gave them absolute creativity rooted in love.

God's love is absolute, unique, unchanging, and eternal, and through that love,e we share His suffering and His joy, and participate in everything with Him. We thereby inherit everything from Him. If we have the love of the absolute God, we become the object partners of the absolute God. (303-261, 1999.09.09)

3. God is absolute, unique, unchanging, and eternal. To unite with Him, we likewise have to be absolute, unique, unchanging, and eternal. Then and there, eternal love can begin. We can be perfected as men and women only through an eternal life relationship.

We become eternal true men and eternal true women only when we go through a process of growth and settle in a position that is absolute, unique, unchanging, and eternal. Then we become the unchanging owners of love.

This is where love is perfected, where the lives of a man and a woman unite. At the same time, they come to create a new life, connecting to a new relationship of lineage. (280-192, 1997.01.01)

4. God exists centered on love. Therefore, God's absoluteness is centered on love, His uniqueness is centered on love, and His constancy is centered on love. All of them are centered on love. The attributes of love are also absolute, unique, unchanging, and eternal. All people want such love, absolute love.

“Absolute” means there is only one. So we know that God's nature is absolute, unique, unchanging, and eternal. (224-133, 1991.11.24)

5. Love unfolds in mutual relationships. Therefore, even God, who is absolute, has to be obedient in front of love. Otherwise, He would not be able to teach human beings about the core principle of relationships.

God wants to teach Adam and Eve, “Your conjugal love is absolute; you cannot change it for eternity” Why? It is because they are the manifestations of God's attributes. God is one, absolutely not two. Adam is the manifestation of God's attributes, and therefore he is an absolute being.

Adam manifests God's male attributes; Eve manifests God's female attributes. These attributes themselves are absolute.

Love brings together internal and external attributes. As such, love is absolute, and that is why even God has to obey absolute love. Hence, the couple that appears with this absolute love is one and only one, not two. It is absolute and at the same time, unchanging and eternal. (226-170, 1992.02.04)

6. The goal set up by God, the Creator, cannot change. God is the center of each person's conscience and the objective of all people's hope. No matter how much time passes, regardless of what course history takes, He can never change. Before eternity and after eternity, God cannot change.

That is why God said, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end." (Rev. 22:13)

(010-156, 1960.09.25)

The root of true love

7. God is the root and origin of love. God is also the root of life. God is the root of lineage and the root of conscience. We know that love, life, lineage, and conscience exist, even though we cannot see or touch them.

Likewise, we cannot see or touch God, but we can come to know that He exists. Then where is God, who is the root of life and the root of love? He is not up in the air. He dwells in the root of our love and life. That is why we cannot feel Him.
(275-013, 1995.10.30) 8.

God is the root of true love. Elements from the root reach the shoots through the trunk. Then the branches stretch out in all directions, east, west, south, and north. The further the branches stretch, the more the shoots, the trunk, and the roots grow.

This symbolizes God, the vertical Father of true love, and the human world. God, the Creator, is our Father centered on vertical true love. (203-352, 1990.06.28)

9. The root of love is God. God is the root of all roots. We have to engraft ourselves to that root of love. When we unite with it, we can connect to the root of love,e and new shoots can emerge and grow into a tree that eventually will flower and bear fruit.

There, the Lord's hope can bloom. New shoots have to come out and grow into branches. A shoot by itself will perish. A shoot wants to grow into a branch.

Multiple branches have to grow from the main trunk and then, after a proliferation of leaves, flowers will blossom. This is the order of growth. This process leads eventually to the stage of perfection. (231-274, 1992.06.07)

10. God is the Lord of love and the root of love. Among all roots, there is one central root. We need to seek the love that reaches that main root. To achieve this, we have to become just like God.

As God's mind and body are united, we should become sons and daughters whose minds and bodies are united. (272-260, 1995.10.06)

11. The God of goodness is a God of sacrifice and love. Love cannot exist apart from the essence of sacrifice. When we sacrifice for the one we love, we do not consider it to be a sacrifice. The more we sacrifice, the more we feel enriched. Love has that unusual quality.

When we reflect upon our level of love, we find that we can measure it only on the scale of sacrifice. Big or small, high or low, the extent of our sacrifice is the measure of our love. Great sacrifice reflects great love; little sacrifice reflects little love. (063-025, 1972.10.01)

12. God is the being of absolute love. God created human beings as His object partners, desiring to pour His love into them. In doing so, God expected that, through man and woman, His love would return naturally. If that had occurred, God would have felt infinite joy.

Adam and Eve would have become the perfect object partners of God's love only when the two achieved perfect unity in their love. But Adam and Eve had to go through a period of growth to become a mature couple, resemble God, receive God's love, and finally return love to Him. (201-205, 1990.04.09)

13. God created heaven and earth for love. Who are the object partners of His love? They are human beings. This shows us the value of human beings. As the King of love, God desires to possess the love of parents, the love of couples, and the love of brothers and sisters.

God is the King of love. As the subject partner whose original nature encompasses east, west, north, and south, and front, back, right, and left, He is ready to meet any counterpart who desires true love. (219-017, 1991.08.25)

The God of emotion, intellect, and will

14. What is the nature of God's relationship with human beings? To have a relationship with human beings, He has to be a personal God. And to be a personal God, He should be like us. Human beings have minds and bodies.

We can deduce the concept of God's dual characteristics from the premise that God, as our Creator and original being, shares with us a common purpose, and has to resemble us human beings. (167-244, 1987.07.21)

15. God, the Creator, would not create without purpose. Since human beings have emotion, intellect, and will, it follows that God, our Creator, has to be the original being of emotion, intellect, and will. (155-288, 1965.11.01)

16. God is a personal being. As a personal God, He has emotion, intellect, and will. Thus, God and we can communicate with each other. For instance, when we laugh, God should be able to laugh. Then does the absolute God, who can do whatever He wants, shed tears? Yes, God also sheds tears. (203-221, 1990.06.26)

17. Today many Christians have the view that since God, the Creator, is a unique and absolute being in the position of the Most High, a being of supreme goodness, He cannot have a relationship with human beings, that is, beings that He created. In other words, they say that His creatures are profane, whereas He is absolute and divine.

On the other hand, from the viewpoint of love, no matter how lofty and righteous God is, and no matter how lowly His creatures are, to share a love relationship they need to have the same qualities of character and heart. That is, God and human beings must be able to share the same heart.

It means God naturally must have the same qualities as human beings. Hence, human beings resemble Him, and we believers say, “God is our Father, and we are His children.” Saying this means that human beings resemble God.

How does resemblance come about? It comes through the bloodline, the lineage. The fact that we are bound to God through lineage means that we bind to Him through love. (138-246, 1986.01.24)

18. God is a personal God, having emotion, intellect, and will. Above all, this personal God desires love, so He created human beings as His object partners of love.

Christian theology states that the Creator is sacred, and His creatures are lowly, but this cannot be the whole story in light of the ideal of partnership, for the fulfillment of which God needs to find an ideal object partner of love.

Since God is divine, the object partner of love whom this divine being is also seeking has to be divine. This is the basis for the privilege and authority of human beings. (143-151, 1986.03.17) 19.

The final destination of philosophy is to find God. What God? The God who is absolute, unique, and unchanging. But most of all He must be a personal God because this is the kind of God that human beings need.

To relate to us, God has to be a personal God who shares all our thoughts, ideals, and desires, including both internal and external aspects. He has to be the One who can relate with us deeply in all dimensions – emotional, volitional, and intellectual.

Unless He can form a complete relationship with us, even though He exists He would have nothing to do with us. From the perspective that God has to be a personal God, philosophers have been ignoring the most essential meaning of God. (138-142, 1986.01.21)

20. Love is what God requires, and He will love those who resemble Him. Therefore, to share love, God requires a partner with whom He can be pleased. If human beings are indeed God's partners, it follows that God must have a personality that can harmonize one hundred percent with the attributes of human beings. God must be the One who can harmonize with all the elements of the body and mind. Hence, God must have emotion, intellect, and will. (162-274, 1987.04.17)

21. When we look at God, we can see He is a personal God. Since He is the subject partner of human beings, He has the character to perfectly relate to us. If God is like this, He surely has His views about morality in human relationships and the rules of conduct by which we should live.

Just as we have views about morality that are based on human relationships and the human heart, God must have views about morality that are based on our relationship with Him and on His heart. God, as the subject being, has His love and His own rules of conduct.

Accordingly, human beings should possess love and uphold rules of conduct appropriate to being His object partners. It makes no sense to believe that human rules of conduct, morals, and heart exist but divine rules of conduct, morals, and heart do not. (065-025, 1972.11.13)

22. The I Ching says, “The cycle of change is the law of heaven; benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and wisdom are supreme in human nature,” showing that benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and wisdom are important.

The I Ching explains the constant changes in nature, the cycle of the seasons, and the cyclical path of change in the universe. But it makes no mention of a personal God. Further, the book explains the law of yin and yang in the natural world but falls short concerning love, lineage, and perfection.

It does not explain the being who, while existing as the harmonization of subject and object partners, and of internal character and external form, brings east, west, not,h and south into balance. (410-040, 2003.06.30)

23. The God who governs heaven and earth is personal. This personal God wants to become the Parent of an ideal family and, in the position of a husband and wife, lead the children to form a tribe, lead the tribe to form a nation, and then unite the world as one great family of God.

Then the world will become one single people. Jesus' proclamation that he was the Son of God was wonderful. He also spoke of the bride and bridegroom. He taught us the highest standard that a person is to attain. John 14 explains the essence of this.

Jesus also said he would come again. He must come again to find the bride and the bridegroom, create the family, tribe, and nation, and unify the world.
(370-063, 2002.02.19) 24.

We cannot talk about love unless God is a personal God. God needs to have the same qualities of emotion and character as human beings. Christianity, alone among religions, reveals this God. Christians call God “Father” and “Jehovah.”

That we can call God “Father” was a great discovery. (139-240, 1986.01.31)

God of the Principle and the law

25. God is the God of the Principle. Conversely, Satan stands in an unprincipled position. Therefore, if you are unprincipled, it puts Satan in charge; if you are principled, it puts God in charge.

When we consider the positions of the beings at the time of God's creation, God came first, next were Adam and Eve, and then the archangels. This is the view based on the Principle. (55-296, 1972.05.09) 26.

What is the purpose of a religious life? It is to realize one's original nature. Original nature is the core of the Principle. Since God owns the Principle, He can govern by the Principle. But God can govern only what is within the original nature.

Since the original nature and the absolute God are one, the original nature also strives to stand in the absolute position. Because of this, the mind can command the body absolutely, and this is principled.

The Principle determines the core of everything. The more principled something is, the closer its position will be to the center. (56-303, 1972.05.18) 27.

A good and upright person represents the whole. In measuring goodness, the closer a person is to the position of the Principal, the better he or she is. Our original nature inclines us to engage in actions that move toward oneness with God because He is the center of the Principle.

This inclination toward oneness with the center results from the action of the conscience. Had our ancestors not fallen, the conscience would have directed and disciplined the body.

That is the Principle. But due to the Fall, the body became an unprincipled base. Thus, the Principle inevitably engages us in action to fight against that which is not of the Principle. This is the action of the conscience. (56-303, 1972.05.18) 28.

All that is true is necessarily centered on God. All things become true if and when we human beings lay the fundamental foundation upon which to bring forth order and good governance.

Absent such a foundation, nothing is true. God is the source of what is true; trueness is possible because God exists. When God departs, so does trueness. In that void, the origin of evil emerges.

True results can only come from truth. In other words, the fulfillment of God's desire comes from the existence of the true God. Please understand that concepts such as truth and goodness are established in relation not to human beings, but to God. (024-315, 1969.09.14)

29. What is truth? To man, the greatest truth is woman. To women, the greatest truth is man. To God, the truth is human beings; to human beings, the truth is God. Truth is not found elsewhere. Since God is true, and is the truth, all that stems from Him is true and is the truth. How can truth reach perfection?

When man and woman become one and, as a couple, unite with God in true love, perfection is attained. There can be no perfection without true love. Seen in this way, man represents the perfection of truth and woman represents the perfection of truth. Thus, for man and woman to become one is to perfect God and the universe. (201-222, 1990.04.22)

30. God is the subject partner of the truth and the original essence of the truth. Accordingly, it is said that all things are possible through Him. This basic principle is effective because God is the truth.

As the subject being and the subject partner, God is in the position to take responsibility for all things, whether under His or another's dominion. Because He takes responsibility, He has been the center of history and will remain the central being forever. (087-041, 1976.04.25)

31. If God ignored His law, with which He created everything, He would not be able to govern His creation. Because He established the law, God takes dominion over His creation by observing that very law. Thereby, He becomes the God who makes the law His own. If he were to oppose it, He could not own it. By observing it, God becomes the God of law.

Because He is one with the law, He can judge according to the law. He can forbid things and give commandments. Otherwise, He cannot judge according to the law or pass a sentence by the law. (112-073, 1981.04.01)

32. Christianity describes God as the omniscient and omnipotent Father, but His omniscience and omnipotence do not function apart from a basic principle. God does not act arbitrarily. The law established by the eternal God is eternal. The fact that He is the One who established it does not justify His being arbitrary and changing it. (162-184, 1987.04.12)

33. Christian ministers may think, “The omniscient and omnipotent God, with the power of creation, can do whatever He wants, even now.” But that is far from the truth.

All things existing in heaven and on earth operate by the fundamental law, the Principle. Even God cannot act in violation of His law. Even the president of a nation has to respect the constitution and the laws the legislature passes according to it.

Since God is the being who is absolute, unique, unchanging, and eternal, His law is also absolute, unique, unchanging, and eternal. He needs a partner who conforms to this law. For Him, this is the highest necessity. He needs a partner who, representing the world, abides by the law and liberates the people.
(166-101, 1987.05.30)