The God of the Word

1. God's Word is not spoken blindly. Because God's Word is based on the Principle and because it is to create beings of limitless value, no one can dispute it. Everyone absolutely will have to unite with it.

God Himself has faith in the Word, which contains principles and laws, and He made it into substance, the embodiment of Himself. It is through this substance that God's children emerge with the infinite value of His object partners.

Then, through an explosion of love from that point, the bond between God and human beings is formed. It is the same whether referring to God creating His children, or to those children looking at God. (68-136, 1973.07.29)

What is God's Word?

2. God existed before the creation. Out of His existence, God conceived of the Word. The Word is that through which substance is created. God did not intend simply to create something and leave it alone; He wanted an eternal relationship with His creation.

God intended an ideal of total oneness, an inseparable relationship that no one could break, that even He could not break. Therefore, from the time the first human beings were created, God and human beings were meant to be together, not separate. From that starting point, God and we human beings were meant to stay together for eternity. (68-127, 1973.07.29)

3. God did not create human beings without having a clear idea. In creating them, God had conviction: “It will surely be like this.” His faith contained a concrete plan. That plan was based on the Principle with its laws. God had faith in His creation according to the Principle.

The moment of creation was to be when His faith united with His Principles to form the substance of His creation. The moment of creation came when His faith, the Principle, and the substance were in complete accord. With faith and the Principle together, the purpose of God's Word was to create the substance.
(68-135, 1973.07.29)

4. God's Word is a covenant between God and human beings. A covenant states, “If you do this, I will do this for you.” The Bible teaches us that everything is given in a covenant.

If you do your part, God will do something for you. If you fulfill the covenant, God will make you prosper. If you fail to do so, God will not interfere if you go to ruin. (44-339, 1971.05.30)

5. The Word has provisions for judgment. The law is the standard of judgment, the standard that distinguishes good from evil. Thus, the truth should explain the origin of good and evil and define the standard of good and evil. That standard should be the Unification Principle. Do you accept it as absolute?

If you defy or go against the Word, the Word itself will restrict you. It is a principle that the Word benefits you. If you are aligned with the Word, you ultimately will achieve the perfection of your character. However, this achievement must not be centered on yourself.

Even if you do everything in your daily life by the Word, you should not hope that the result will be yours. It belongs to God. This means that you should center your life not on yourself, but on the whole. Your perspective must change.
(45-225, 1971.07.01)

6. Since we can call God our Father, we should be able to speak His Word. God's Word, wherever it is heard, leads to good results, resurrection, and the miracle of re-creation.

Thus, we should become people who can eradicate evil, bring about the work of resurrection, and wield the power of re-creation. The place where such people reside is the kingdom of heaven. (3-034, 1957.09.15)

The Word of heart, love, and Law

7. The purpose of our life is to connect to God's love. We who live on earth are the ones who can proclaim God's Word, the Word that connects us to God. Because the Word we convey on earth is God's, human beings can be created anew through that Word.

You can reach the standard of perfection through giving and receiving. This is the viewpoint of the Principle. Because God is there, the one who hears His Word can resurrect. When we unite with that person as our counterpart, we can form a substantial base; on that foundation, we can experience God's heart.

Depending on the depth and breadth of our preparation, our capacity to experience God's heart grows. Within the Word, God's heart is beating. Therefore, once we hear the Word, even if we have fallen people feel God's heart beginning to bud within our hearts.

When our hearts thus begin to bud, we acquire the strength to love our enemy, and the power to subjugate Satan's world is activated. Thus, you must never keep God's Word to yourself; you need to gain the ability to activate God's heart within you. (027-337, 1970.01.01)

8. We are not speaking of secular truth but of God's words of love. God's truth is delivered to the earth through specific providential figures. God's truth is absolute. Absolute truth is like an all-powerful master key. By applying it, we can solve any difficult problem. (135-347, 1985.12.16)

9. When you receive God's Word, you should recognize it as the true eternal law and the truth for your life, and be able to say, “This is the Word for my life.” Further, you should have the experience of that one point in time in the beginning when God created human beings with the Word.

Unless you experience it, unless you feel God's Word touching your skin, you cannot become God's son or daughter. (003-267, 1958.01.12)

10. If you want to find the truth, do not pay attention to just anyone's words. You have to listen only to that which is true. Then what are the words of truth?

Words of truth are those that stir a feeling of repentance in your heart, that move you so deeply that you become completely immersed in them, and that remain in your mind, no matter how much you try to forget them. When you discover such words, you have found the words of truth that convey the principles of heavenly relationships. (2-137, 1957.03.31)

11. God has to re-create by the Principle. What should He do with human beings, who are like lumps of clay fallen into an unprincipled realm? God's position is the same as when He created Adam and Eve from clay. He has to do the work of bringing them to unite with the Word.

The Word is not ambiguous; it is given in the Principle and its laws. The Word is like a blueprint with laws and regulations, instructing that human eyes should be like this and the nose should be like that. Human beings should follow this blueprint. (68-139, 1973.07.29)

12. God's Word is the root of all truth; hence it is the absolute truth. Further, it is the internally coherent truth. Due to the Fall, we lost God; we lost absolute truth and absolute values. We lost both the internally coherent truth and the internally coherent values.

An absolute view of value stems from absolute values and absolute truth. “View” refers to viewpoint, opinion, and theory. The establishment of a correct view of absolute values is the step that will resolve today's worldwide confusion.
(122-299, 1982.11.25)

13. Why do we need God? It is because God has the unchanging truth. God's Word never changes. The Word that He spoke one thousand years ago will still apply one hundred million years from now.

Human words, no matter how eloquent and flowery they are, wither away and fade from view. But God's Word transcends all changes wrought by time.
(162-262, 1987.04.17)

The Word is the truth for creation, growth, and perfection

14. God created everything through the Word. Unless the Word, the truth, is perfect, its substance cannot be perfect. It is inevitable that if the truth is imperfect, the creation will be imperfect.

Our life of faith is the same. Unless we stand in a perfect place, our life of faith cannot be perfect. Therefore, the perfect truth that God and the cosmos desire must emerge. (016-252, 1966.06.19)

15. God began His creation with the eternal and unique Word. He wanted Adam and Eve to fulfill the purpose of His Word, their bodies becoming temples where He could reside substantially forever.

This was His purpose in creating Adam and Eve. When God breathed life into Adam and Eve, He wanted to reside in their hearts as the subject partner of their eternal life and create for them the resting place of the Sabbath. God created Adam and Eve for this great purpose, to form an unbreakable relationship with them.
(3-259, 1958.01.12)

16. When God speaks through the Principle, He is not speaking arbitrarily. God speaks in perfect accord with the Principle. This supports unity with His object partners. That is why we need faith. As God believes in us, we have to believe in Him. We should not be vague about this.

We must center on the Principle and unite with it. Furthermore, we should not leave the Principle on the shelf but should keep faith in it and substantiate it. By perfecting ourselves as the substance of the Principle, we become sons and daughters whom God can love. (68-135, 1973.07.29)

17. For what purpose did Jesus Christ proclaim the Word, as he came to the earth, shed tears, and followed a path of suffering for more than thirty years? First, it was to recover the relationship between God and human beings. Next, it was to introduce the kingdom of heaven. Jesus introduced the kingdom of heaven through his words.

That is, he introduced the kingdom of heaven through truth. Through Jesus Christ, God gave us the Word, to establish an eternal, unchanging relationship with us and to realize the kingdom of heaven on earth. God revealed the real truth through Jesus.

Jesus Christ came to build the relationship between God and human beings and to testify to the real truth. He introduced and proclaimed the truth to build the kingdom of heaven for which God, humanity, and all creation had been longing.

Jesus proclaimed the truth to recover the relationship between God and human beings, but the people of Israel, who should have believed the truth Jesus brought, distrusted him.

The Word was proclaimed, but its purpose was not accomplished.
(002-126, 1957.03.31)