The Existence of God

1. Through my life of constant prayer and meditation from an early age, I finally encountered God and received His absolute truth. This truth contained astounding content, which revealed the workings of the universe, life, and history, as never seen before. If we apply this truth to society, we can resolve all social problems. If we apply it to the world, we can resolve all global problems.

Furthermore, we can resolve deep religious problems and stalemates in philosophy. This is an unprecedented new worldview, new cosmology, new view of life, new view of God's providence, and new view of history.

Divine Principle is an integrated thought system that embraces all religious doctrines and philosophical tenets as one whole while preserving the unique characteristics of each. (135-347, 1985.12.16)

2. The phrase “God exists” is not an empty one. It is not that we deduce the necessity of God's existence by understanding the subject-object partner relationship through the Principle.

It is that God existed before we came into existence, that He existed before we could think, and that He leads our senses and our whole beings. This awareness is more important than anything else. The basic point is that awareness precedes knowledge, not the other way around. If we are cold, we feel cold before we know we are cold.

Likewise, since God exists, we should be able to feel His existence in our very cells. Achieving that awareness is what matters. The issue is how we achieve that awareness, the ability to experience these things. (058-291, 1972.06.25)

3. The most serious issue in human life is to know whether God exists. If God really exists, the greatest of sinners is the one who denies His existence. For example, if a son denies his parents' existence when they are truly alive and well, would we call him a filial son or an unfilial son?

We would call him an unfilial son. Then, what will happen to the person who denies God's existence, even though God exists? That person will come to ruin. Hence, there is no greater sin than the denial of God's existence. There are even those who say God is dead. There is no sin greater than the utterance of such words. (039-168, 1971.01.10)

4. We should not perceive the existence of God only vaguely and conceptually. It is impossible to understand the existence of God through logic alone. This is because God's existence, while within the realm of logic, also reaches beyond logic. Can a religious belief in which we know God only through logic guide our lives?

Can such a belief perfect us as substantial beings of eternal life? There are many problems with that idea. With only that foundation, how can we expect to stand before God, our true Lord?

Our coming to God has been the hope of humankind and also God's providential objective throughout history. (003-010, 1957.09.08)

Human beings are resultant beings

5. There is no one who was born because he or she wanted to be born. No man or woman was born out of his or her desire. We were born because of our parents, not because we desired to be born. The same is true for our parents, their parents, and all our ancestors. It is the same back to Adam and Eve.

Even the first human ancestors did not come to exist out of their desire. Their existence sprang from the desire of someone before them. When we speak of human beings, we refer to men and women. Man needs woman and woman needs man. However, no man chose to be born as a man, nor did any woman choose to be born as a woman.

We discover that we are a man or a woman after we are born, and after we grow up, we recognize that we need each other and desire to become husband and wife.

Knowing this, it is plain to see that human beings are not the fundamental cause, and that if there were no God, neither would there be human beings.
(67-267, 1973.07.22)

6. The vast human race came into existence through the process of men and women meeting each other and living together. Humanity is composed of numerous nations, the nations are composed of numerous tribes, the tribes are composed of numerous families and the families are composed of numerous individuals.

Each of us is one of those individuals and a member of a family. The family and blood relationships that bind us were not forged according to our wishes. God gives us our birth, our family, and our relatives.

Without God, relationships between teachers and students, or between parents and children, would not be possible. God is the cause and all of these relationships in the world are the result. (67-268, 1973.07.22)

7. For anything on earth to exist, there has to be a cause. The world in which we live is the resultant; the society and country in which we live and the environment we see around us are in a resultant position. There must be a motivation behind the existence of an environment of relationships.

We cannot deny that. We can see that human beings are certainly behind the development of societies, nations, and the world. However, human beings cannot be the fundamental cause of human beings.

We are undeniably in the position of resultant beings, behind whose creation there must be a motivation, a purpose, and a reason. (028-282, 1970.02.11)

8. We have to unite mind and body with God at the center. When the mind and body unite with God completely, they form a trinity. The reason we need to become one in mind and body centered on God is because God is our cause. God and human beings relate to cause and effect.

The mind and body have a reciprocal relationship; this is a basic principle of the universe. Unity between cause and effect, and between subject and object partners, is a fundamental and universal principle. Unless there is oneness between God and humankind as cause and effect, between this subject partner and object partner, there cannot be an ideal environment, nor can we become ideal beings. (89-152, 1976.11.07)

9. Human beings are by no means causal beings. We are resultant beings, brought about for some reason. There is no way for a result to come about without any relationship with its cause. No matter how tortuous its course, the result needs to relate to and fit with the cause.

Human beings are the way they are because they resemble some causal being. If we say that this causal being is God, we can conclude that human beings resemble God. (77-102, 1975.04.01)

10. God is the causal being of the universe. He is the causal being behind all action, the causal being who exerts force, the causal being who gives direction, and the causal being who endows purpose.

We call Him a God of personality because He always acts with a clear motive, a sense of direction, and a purpose. Therefore, everything in the world advances in the direction of the purpose that is based on the cause. This is what we mean when we say that God is the being that causes everything. (89-075, 1976.07.11)

The mysteries of the human body testify to God's existence

11. To a greater extent than we can ever fathom, human beings are the masterpiece of creation. If human beings have a subject partner, an absolute God who created them, would that God have rendered them incapable of knowing what He says, sees, or feels? Let us compare God to an artist.

To create a masterpiece, an artist conceives it in his or her imagination and designs it with his or her intelligence. The artist aims to create a unique work of art, the best in the world.

If the masterpiece turns out perfectly, as envisioned, the artist feels infinite joy. If the work is even better than planned, no artist in the world would say, “This isn't what I intended,” and then destroy it. If a piece of art is better than originally intended, he or she will cherish it as the treasure of a lifetime and will want to display it with pride to others.

Such is the heart of an artist. If human beings tend to always desire something higher and better, God must have the same tendency. If He had that mindset when He created human beings, how wonderful they must be! We can conclude that God wanted to create us as His greatest masterpiece. (053-051, 1972.02.08)

12. Consider the structure of the human body, which is truly a palace of wonders. It is wonderful that while each of the numerous cells is a separate entity, each cell cooperates with the other cells, without conflict, to form each of us as freely functioning individuals. We can conclude that this vast world moves and acts to perfect each of us individually. We can conclude further that everything is in motion to fulfill God's Will. (211-021, 1990.12.28)

13. The most important part of a person is the face. The most important part of the face is the eyes. If we think about it, we can say that our eyes came from our parents.

Then from where did our parents' eyes come? Tracing back through our ancestry, we come to our first forebears, Adam and Eve. When the very first eyes came to be, do you think they knew of the sun's existence? No matter how much we analyze it, we can only conclude they did not.

The eyelids could not have known that on Earth, moisture evaporates in the sun's radiant heat. The eyelashes did not know of airborne dust, even though one purpose for which they were created was to protect the eyes from it.

We can understand that the eyes by themselves are a palace of infinite mystery, in that even before they were formed, the being who brought them into existence designed them with the sun, airborne dust, and evaporation in mind. “God” is the name by which we know this subject partner who gave us birth.
(77-258, 1975.04.14)

14. Consider your ears. They face the front. What if they were positioned to face the other way, or what if they were missing? We would not be able to pick up sounds from in front of us.

We would also not be able to hear voices from a distance. The ears were formed to catch the sound of voices coming from in front of us. Why? It is because people face each other when they talk. No one talks to the back of your head. The ears face forward because when we meet people, we talk face-to-face.

The fact that they face front means that someone knew in advance that the ears were to hear the sounds that come from in front of us. (38-247, 1971.01.08)

15. Why were the ears created? It was to capture the vibrations that pass by in the air and to harmonize them. Look at the ear carefully. It has a large auricle and a small auricle, providing the ability to screen sounds appropriately.

When a loud sound is caught, the large auricle cleverly reduces the volume. If a loud sound were to enter the ear straight, it would shock the eardrum. That is why the large auricle lowers the volume, buffering it to the small auricle. Without this, the ear would have a problem.

The ears did not know anything about this, but the causal being, who had a purpose for them, knew it from the beginning. That is why the ears were made the way they are. Someone knew and shaped them like that. We do not know whether this is the Creator or not, but there is someone or something there.
(38-248, 1971.01.08)

16. When you see the bushy eyebrows on your face, you may be displeased with them and wonder, “Why do I have these bushy things here?” Without them, wouldn't you have a cleaner, better-looking face? So why are they there? If the human face were covered with fur, would we need eyebrows?

Animals, that crawl on the ground, do not need eyebrows, although they have a brow line. Yet human beings, who walk upright, absolutely need eyebrows. The eyebrow area usually protrudes slightly, like a sculpted mountain range. It is the spot most likely to indicate good fortune. Why is it made like this? Because someone knew that human beings would walk upright.
(38-248, 1971.01.08)

17. If human beings crawled, they would not need eyebrows. It is truly good to have them. The hair of the eyebrow grows in one direction. Why is that so? It is to send raindrops that land on the forehead off in one direction.

Since the eyebrows grow in one direction and are curved slightly sideways, when water flows, it is bound to flow to the side and down. What if we had no eyebrows?

Sweat and raindrops would go into our eyes and irritate them. Wouldn't that be difficult? If you look carefully at the eyes, you will see that the Creator considered that the eyebrows alone were not enough, and so equipped the eyes with eyelids to protect them.

Tears are designed to flow to the side through a carefully molded channel. Safety measures are in place. I do not know who designed all of this, but it must have taken tens of thousands of years to do the research. (38-248, 1971.01.08)

18. What if the nose were upside-down? A shower would cause a big problem. Think how serious this would be. It is not a laughing matter. The nose symbolizes the unique position of human beings in all creation. Human beings have to observe the heavenly law.

That is, they have to honor the order of the relationship between high and low. So why does the nose become wider the lower down you go? If it did not, it would be a big problem for the mouth because things like raindrops would flow into it. For this reason, the nose widens at the bottom. It is marvelous to think about this as we look at the human face. (38-249, 1971.01.08)

19. If you look at the lips, you will find they are wonderful. The lips and teeth work well together. How far apart are they? Not more than a few millimeters. This is very dangerous; even a small mishap could create a big problem. But do we worry about this?

When we are eating, we just think about eating and don't give it a second thought. Isn't the tongue wonderful as well? Inside the mouth, the tongue pushes and pulls, moving in and out between the upper and lower teeth while they are working together like a thresher. Yet, the tongue and the teeth work in accord, without running into conflict.

They fit together like a magic box. I speak quickly. Even though I speak so fast, and it is the first time for us to meet, I can resonate with you well, and we can become very close through words. Truly, the tongue is a wonderful instrument of harmony. What if the tongue only worked like a finger? It would cause a serious problem. (38-250, 1971.01.08)

The original mind testifies to God's existence

20. How can we know whether God exists or not? We know air exists, even though it is invisible.

How do we know? We know because we live by breathing it. Does the air have any taste? It has no taste, and it is invisible; still, we know undoubtedly that air exists. Similarly, we have a mind.

Even though it is invisible, we know with certainty that we have it. You cannot use its invisibility as a basis to say there is no mind. Yet, we do not know what the mind looks like. It is indeed a mystery. (39-158, 1971.01.10)

21. Where would God's dwelling place be? God would nestle in the most precious place of all love.

Speaking of a man and a woman, where would God be? He would be at the point that stands perpendicular to their deepest love, based on their complete and unchanging unity. Where man and woman come into oneness, that place becomes the central point.

If you reach a mystical state in prayer, enter the realm of spiritual experience, and call out to God, “Heavenly Father,” you will hear the answer from deep inside, “Why are you calling me? I am right here. Here!” “Here” refers to the center of your heart. It is the central point of love where you are united in mind and body, the perpendicular space

where God can dwell. Where is the center of the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world, and cosmos? That center, no matter how small, is the conscience. One's conscience upholds the place where the axis of universal love resides. Such is the conscience of one who has attained unity of mind and body.
(224-148, 1991.11.24)

22. God is the root of love, the root of life, the root of lineage, and the root of conscience. This is an undeniable fact. If there is such a God, why can we not feel Him? It is because He and we are one. He is one with love, one with lineage, one with life, and one with conscience. God is the root.

If you want to manifest God, you have to spread your love in all four directions. That is, you must invest your love. If you sacrifice everything, even your life, and love, and return to the zero point, then God will take ownership. At the zero point, centered on God, everything connects horizontally. As a result of the Fall, this vertical aspect was suppressed. However, once you enable the horizontal connection, God becomes the Lord of your conscience. (275-325, 1996.01.01)

23. Try as hard as you may, you will never disprove that each person has a conscience. No one can deny having one. Fallen people generally do not know whether God exists or not. However, God does exist. He is the Creator and we are His creation. If this is so, we must have some part that functions to unite us with our Creator based upon a shared purpose.

There must be a certain force that urges us to align with, move toward, and achieve God's purpose of creation. Without such a force, human beings could not have come to exist. Since God is the Absolute Being, there must be a primary foundation upon which He and His creation can come into contact, an initial base upon which the two can unite.

Therefore, God had to create human beings with something that functions within them to drive them toward their intended purpose and goals. Without that, there is nowhere that both God and human beings can be happy. (56-137, 1972.05.14)

24. The standard according to which God, the Absolute Being, created human beings could not be different from the standard He expected us to pursue as created beings. God and human beings can be happy only when we share a single standard.

Within us, there must be a function that drives us to seek the absolute God. Without such a function, we would not be able to reach Him. There must be a force to stimulate us and push us forward. That force is the conscience, which we cannot ignore. The conscience wants to elevate us, so it urges us: “Become better! Do better!” We cannot deny this force.

The conscience never urges us to be worse; it always pushes us to go higher, to be better tomorrow than today, to be better the next day than tomorrow, to be better next year than this year. The conscience is the force that urges us to become a better, more valuable individual. (56-138, 1972.05.14) 25.

The human conscience is always in the position of the object partner rather than the subject partner. There is always a subject partner, even though we may not know who or what it is, that spurs us to take action according to certain principles.

The subject partner and object partner work not to harm each other but with the hope of common benefit and betterment. The conscience always works to lead us toward something better, bigger, more valuable, and more universal. Therefore, we can conclude that the conscience does not function on its own; it integrates the shared purposes of the subject and object partners. (56-139, 1972.05.14)

26. The subject partner and object partner interact based on the conscience. It is a heavenly law and principle that the conscience cannot work without a subject partner. When we see that our conscience is working constantly in pursuit of something higher, we can conclude that there is a subject partner on a higher dimension.

We cannot deny the existence of the subject partner of our conscience, whom we call God. God absolutely exists. If you say God does not exist, you have to deny the functioning of the conscience. As long as you recognize the existence of your conscience, you have to recognize the existence of God. (56-166, 1972.05.14)

27. The conscience is working every moment within every human being. If you wake up from a deep sleep, open your eyes, and start to conjure up an evil scheme, your conscience, acting as your guardian, will say, “You scoundrel!” You cannot deny the working of your conscience. Humans are resultant beings, each with a conscience.

When we admit this, we have to openly acknowledge that we surely have a subject partner because all actions stem from a relationship between subject and object partners.

The conscience always urges us upward toward higher things and never urges us to go downward. Why is that so? It is because of an overriding aspiration that compels it to unite with a higher subject partner and attain a higher value.
(053-159, 1972.02.19)

God guides the providence in history

28. God did not just come into existence currently in history. He does not only relate to one's personal emotional life. God has existed from the past to the present; that is, He has existed throughout history.

But in passing down His work from generation to generation, He intends not to remain in the background of time, traipsing after people who pursue their private purposes, immersed in themselves.

God will surely continue to advance the providence and pursue His Will through those who first become aware of the providence, and who brighten history based on the foundation they build in their lives. These are people who take a public position, not private. (59-020, 1972.07.02) 29.

By what means can we hold on to God? It is through our sincere devotion. Nowadays, we enjoy freedom of religion, with no persecution. God brought about this time in which we enjoy freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion.

This is preparation for the Last Days. That is to say, religious freedom has been bestowed thanks to God who willed it. Thus, in this age, we can put our lives on the line and devote ourselves to God without limit, and we will not be persecuted. As the time of persecution has passed, we must become people of heart.

We must treasure within us the heart that God experienced throughout history. God is not the God of one particular period; He is the God of history. He is the God who has toiled hard through countless saints and sages who represented Him throughout history. To save all of you, to this day, He has allowed many people to walk a path of persecution, even to the point of martyrdom. That is why I say He is the God of history. (10-349, 1960.11.27)

26. When we look at our history, we see that the world's cultures are being absorbed into larger cultural spheres based on religion. We witness the Christian cultural sphere in the democratic world, the Far Eastern cultural sphere of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Zen, the Hindu cultural sphere in India, and the Islamic cultural sphere.

Over thousands of years, these religious spheres have gradually absorbed human cultures. This is similar to a situation where all the parts are gathered in a repair shop to be assembled into a whole. Through this, we can discern the presence of God and His work. (56-166, 1972.05.14)

The incorporeal God

27. There is no place in the universe where God is not present, and yet we live unaware of His presence or absence. Air surrounds us, but ordinarily, we do not feel it; it is only when we are suffocating that we realize that air exists. Further, right inside of us, our heart beats about seventy times a minute, but we are usually unaware of it.

If we were forced to match our steps or the blinking of our eyes with the rhythm of our hearts, we would collapse within three days from nervous exhaustion. So, it is good that we are unaware of such things. Suppose that God, who is omnipotent, omniscient, and in total control of heaven and earth, was right here with us.

With His power, He could blow away mountains and put a hole through the earth. Seeing such things, do you think we could survive in the visible presence of such a God? It is good that God is invisible. If He were visible, we would have a nervous breakdown and pass away within an hour. We should therefore be grateful that God is invisible. (053-159, 1972.02.19)

28. We live every day under the rays of the sun, but we do not feel grateful. We do not greet the sun with gratitude, saying, “Thank you, sun.” We tend to take such magnificent things for granted.

What if God decided to remove all the air in the world, leaving only one gallon? If God were that mischievous, world unification would be easy. It would be done in five minutes. If God took away all the air and asked, “Will you unite or not?” all people would shout in unison, “Well unite!”

God could unify the world instantly this way. That God does not do this is something for which to be thankful because without the air we would die. Air is necessary for life. (59-020, 1972.07.02) 29.

The wise, all-knowing, and almighty God thought it most convenient to reign as an incorporeal being who could move around freely amid things. Since God has no form, He can pass through things at will without causing any problems. God can come to your body and pass through it without your awareness.

When you doze off, God can step onto your body and walk on it as He pleases, and you will not even notice. How convenient! So it is logical to say that, after much consideration, God chose to remain invisible because He felt it would be most convenient. (10-349, 1960.11.27)

30. We know that air is circulating us, but we do not feel it. If we are unaware even of the air circulating us, how can we expect to be aware of God's presence? For God, it is most convenient to remain without form.

At the same time, He has to be more than big enough to govern and wrap Himself around this huge universe. Although the incorporeal God can be as big as He wants, the universe is too small to contain His heart; He desires something even larger. (041-022, 1971.02.12)

31. You do not keep your most precious things in a place where people can just see and touch them.

You secure them in a place where no one can steal them. If you had a most precious, prized, and unique treasure, you would secure it where no one could take it. You would keep it in the deepest part of your heart, the place to which you alone had access.

Your heart is the only place where you can meet God one-on-one. God too does not want to meet you in an exposed place. He seeks a unique place where He can meet you as an individual with unique character, thinking,g and feeling. That is the reason God made the conscience incorporeal. (38-244, 1971.01.08)

32. Let us imagine the world contained one treasure such that, if it were lost, on that very day the world would turn upside down. Would you keep that most precious treasure on the surface of your heart, or at the very center of your heart? I am sure you would keep it at the center of your heart.

Still, you would not feel at ease, and you would wrap it up, not only once, but many times over. You would not want just anyone to walk in and look at it, so you would cover it, layer upon layer so that others would never set eyes on it. The human heart has this kind of desire. If God were visible, all the diamonds in heaven and on earth would pale into insignificance by comparison.

Where would you house this God, the Absolute Being who is unique in the universe, who is of infinite value, who is the infinite source of life, and who is priceless beyond imagination? You would keep Him in your heart. You would hide Him where no one could find Him, even after seeking for tens of thousands of years. So it is good that God is invisible. (38-245, 1971.01.08)

33. God is a being without form, so the question arises: how can the incorporeal and the corporeal come together? How can the incorporeal world and the corporeal world become one? Logically, this is

difficult to answer. A physical being cannot become the center that binds a spiritual self and a physical self. Then how can there be unity between the spiritual Parent and the earthly parents, that is, between God, who is spirit, and the unfallen human ancestors of the original standard, who have substantial form?

Further, the vertical and the horizontal have to unite, but how? It is through love, the true love between them, traveling by the shortest and most direct route.
(138-168, 1986.01.21)

The omnipresent God

34. God's heart exists not only in the Word but also in everything He created. God's heart is everywhere throughout heaven and earth. Thus, we say there is nowhere that God does not exist; that is, God is omnipresent. Since God's heart is in all things of creation, if you want to be in His heart, you should embrace everything that exists in heaven and on earth as your own.

Our heart desires to go beyond our people, the world and all created things and be with God. In our hearts, we yearn to go to the place where we can even claim that God is ours. A person who has such a heart is with God. (138-169, 1986.01.21)

35. How can we feel God's ubiquitous presence? We should feel the air as God's breathing, and when a storm hits, we should feel as if He were sneezing. When we see flowing water, we should perceive it as the sweat God has shed as He overcame His course of suffering for the sake of the world.

When we look at the sun, it should bring to mind the life elements of the entire universe, and teach us God's love. God created nature as a textbook for us, His beloved sons and daughters, to provide us with profound experiences of His heart and bring us joy. (052-260, 1972.01.02)

36. The words, “In heaven and earth, I alone am the honored one” and “I am omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent, and nothing comes into existence except by me” were spoken with love.

Through love, we can be omnipresent. In love, there is nothing to hide. Everything is obvious. The moment you love, everything is open. God wants to be omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent, with love at the center.
(39-157, 1971.01.10)

37. If God did not exist in the universe, the universe might as well be empty. But since God exists, the universe is full. It is full of love. Hence, once we come to know that God exists, we feel that the universe is full even when we are alone. God is everywhere.

We come to feel that He is everywhere. In the midst of such love, God's omnipresence deeply moves us. But if we do not know God, everything is empty. (185-013, 1989.01.01)

42. If you ask whether God exists, I will answer that God exists. Where is He then? He is in the place nearest to us. That is why we cannot see Him. He is so extremely close to us that we cannot see Him. Can you see your eyes? They are too close to you to allow you to see them. Likewise, we cannot see God because He is so close to us. (209-136, 1990.11.28)

43. Man and woman each represent God. God is not somewhere else; He is in our hearts. So prayer is a conversation with the heart. God is the root of the heart. As we go deeper into the heart, we will find God at the deepest root of our conscience. Next, God is the root of love, the root of life, and the root of lineage. Thus, we need to be grateful whether we are at home or out in public. Wherever we go, in the country or the world, we should always be grateful. Even when we go to heaven, the same principle applies; if we follow this rule, we will pass freely wherever we go. It is the same whether in the kingdom of heaven on earth or the kingdom of heaven in heaven. (254-199, 1994.02.06)