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1. What would have happened if the original human ancestors, Adam and Eve, had not fallen? Adam, the head of his family, would have also been the head of his tribe. He also would have been the head of his people.
Furthermore, as the representative of his nation, Adam would have been the king. Thus, the world would have united under Adam's perspective, Adam's teaching.
However, because this was not realized, all kinds of insignificant philosophies and ideologies emerged and brought confusion to the world.
We will have to win over all of them. Originally, everything of humanity should have been based on Adam's nation.
That is, the language, culture, tradition, lifestyle, and system should all have been those of Adam. This is Godism – everyone becomes one with God, centered on His heart. That is why we call it Godism. (20-123, 1968.05.01)
God and the world of peace
2. Had Adam and Eve not fallen, God would have blessed them in marriage and they would have had children. They would have created a family that brought joy to God, and it would have expanded to create a tribe and a people. It would have further expanded to become a world based on Godism, which is also “Adamism.”
Everything in that world would have been Adam-centered. Adam's ideology would have prevailed, as would his viewpoints on the universe, the cosmos, and life. The five races of humankind would have lived in harmony.
Skin color depends on the environment, and there would have been no problem between people of different races. Then, how is it that we have come to have so many languages? Heaven divided them after the Fall of the first ancestors. (156-203, 1966.05.25)
3. What would the original world be like? No evil would dwell in that world; it would be an eternal and unified world where people would be completely free from evil. Surrounded by overflowing, original love, they would sing of happiness forever. Has anyone ever lived in such a place?
Not even one person has set foot there. Though many people have pursued such a world throughout history, it has not yet appeared on Earth. Many have described that world in words, but not one of them succeeded in making it a reality.
(18-102, 1967.05.28)
4. The place where we want to live in the heavenly nation. We all would like to live in that nation. It has no borders. It has only one language. Racial discrimination does not exist there.
People are all brothers and sisters because they all came from God. To God, all people are sons and daughters, all are brothers and sisters, and all are meant to be citizens of God's kingdom on earth. We are the citizens of the kingdom of God on earth. (66-281, 1973.05.16)
5. Humanity desires a world of interdependence, mutual prosperity, and universally shared values, which is a reflection of God's ideal kingdom. It is not a world where one can live alone; no individual can create such a world.
Whenever we talk about “I”, there must also be “my partner,” whether it is my spouse or my family. This should not remain as a concept but should be applied in real life. The kingdom of God is the world where this concept is manifested in reality, on the stage of life. (024-300, 1969.08.31)
6. If human beings had not fallen in the first place, we would now be living in the homeland where God would be happy, would take delight in everything, and would be able to love wholeheartedly. That is what should have happened from the beginning. This earth was meant to be our homeland.
Our homeland was meant to be the kingdom of God on earth. It would have started with God at the center and all relationships would have been formed through God's love. We would not be ignorant of God but would experience His existence and His love.
If all humanity lived in God's love, we would all be one large family, relating to one another as brothers and sisters. Then, having lived as God's family in God's kingdom on earth, we would go to God's kingdom in heaven, in the spirit world. God's kingdom in heaven is our original homeland.
However, owing to the Fall, God's kingdom on earth has never come about; therefore, God's kingdom in heaven is also vacant. No one has ever entered that kingdom. (161-012, 1987.01.01)
A world of peace is one global family.
7. The kingdom of heaven is a world where all are united in harmony in the love of God, the subject partner and all are happy with one another. It is where the family serves as the model and expands to the world level. This is the ideal that God has envisioned for the kingdom of heaven.
To realize the kingdom of heaven, God's vision of one large harmonious family centered on His love must be achieved worldwide. Only then can the world that God has envisioned come to pass. Yet people in today's world do not even dream of it. They do not know of this world.
God has been striving to bring this world into reality, but Satan, the servant who violated Heaven's law, has prevented this. Therefore, God cannot intervene unless a man emerges who is superior to this servant, a true man who shows complete loyalty to God in a position higher than Satan's. This is where God stands in today's fallen, evil world. (065-034, 1972.11.13)
8. God is the Parent, and human beings, His children, have the status of citizens of His nation. This applies to individuals, families, tribes, peoples, nations, and the world. When we look at people in this way, each individual is under God's sovereignty and each is a member of the family of His direct sons and daughters. Hence, God's sovereignty in His nation is connected with His sovereignty in the family.
Therefore, although there are numerous individuals, tribes, and peoples, God's sovereignty over each of them stands on the relationship of subject and object partners. The ideal world of creation is a world where this subject-object partner relationship can be formed anywhere.
God's sovereignty pervades that world, which is on the horizontal plane and is called the heavenly nation. This is God's ideal of creation. However, the Fall of the first ancestors caused it to fundamentally break down. (77-210, 1975.04.12)
9. What is the system of the ideal world? It is an extension of the family system. If you have perfected your heart in accord with the principles of the family textbook, wherever you go you will treat the people of any family as your brothers and sisters or your sons and daughters.
However, this does not mean you can treat them like your spouse. When you meet someone as old as your grandparents, you will treat that person as your grandparent. When you meet people the same age as your sons and daughters, you will treat them as your children.
When you encounter children the same age as your children, you will naturally share your food with them. We must create such a world. Unless we live for the sake of others, we cannot bring about a world of peace.
If we do not develop the philosophy of living for the sake of others from a concept into a living reality, this world cannot become a world of peace.
(225-226, 1992.01.20)
10. What purpose do all people share? What is the common gate that all people ultimately must pass through? It is neither the nation nor the world; it is neither the communist world nor the democratic world. Before there can be a true communist world, there must be an original family.
Before there can be a true democratic world, there must be an original family that can build a true democratic world. Yet, where are the order, the education, and the standard of purpose for this? They have not yet appeared on the earth.
Therefore, there cannot be a kingdom of peace, an ideal nation of peace, or a country of peace. The day must come when such an ideal family, an original family, appears on the earth. It truly must appear in history and share the destiny of all humankind.
We need to seek that family, find that family, meet that family, today, and live for that family. Only then will God's providence for the earth be fulfilled, and the earth will become the promised land and the haven of rest. (23-032, 1969.05.11)
A society transcending borders, people, and religions
11. In the world that God desired to create, there would be no national borders. There would be no problems between black and white people. There would be no conflict between good and evil.
However, when we look at the world today, can we say that this world has no national borders? Every single nation has borders. There are concerns among races, especially between blacks and whites.
Not only that; even within the family there is discord and disunity between husband and wife and between parents and children. Furthermore, good people are fighting with evil people.
The Lord who comes under these circumstances needs to unite the world, making it a place where there are no national borders and no racial barriers. He needs to unite all broken families and establish a kingdom of peace in this world that is beset by conflict between good and evil.
He has to teach individuals to sacrifice for the family and nations to sacrifice for the sake of a unified world. This is the only way to achieve a unified world. Otherwise, all hope of reaching such a world will be lost. (053-071, 1972.02.09)
12. Religion must transcend the nation and even the world. It serves on behalf of the absolute God to influence the world to go His way. Religions, in the position of subject partner, teach the truth to influence and transform all the systems, customs, nations, tribes, and even the blood ties that make up the fallen world. In religion, there should be no East or West.
There should be no trace of Satan, no trace of division or prejudice on the level of the nation, people, or tribe. All religions should aspire to the one nation, one people,e and one land.
Only in this way can the eternal, everlasting, and sole sovereignty of God be established. In such a nation, people are centered on God as the children of His direct lineage.
The people follow His commands and the nation is governed under His royal authority. The system in that world is neither democracy nor communism.
(72-291, 1974.09.01)
13. We need to transcend all the cultural spheres that were created by the world's numerous peoples and its five races and transform the world into one cultural sphere. In other words, we need to establish an ideal world where the family system, the social system, the national system, and all its various institutions are based on Godism.
Godism is the teaching of the perfect Adam, who has nothing to do with the Fall. It is neither communism nor democracy, but Adamism. Adamism is the way to Godism. (21-157, 1968.11.17)
14. Now I have to bring unity to the United Nations. What will happen when I do this? When there is no more fighting at the United Nations, it will become the model for a peaceful nation and unified nation.
When all the spheres of ethnicity, religion, race, and culture can unite based on brotherly love and attend the Father and Mother of Adam's family, then this Father and Mother will become the great King and Queen of the cosmos. From Adam's family should come the king of each tribe, the king of each people, the king of each nation,n and the king of the world.
This is how God's providence works to pass down His royal sovereignty and ensure its continuation. (267-090, 1995.01.02) 15. What is the center of religion? It is God. God is called by many names, yet there cannot be many gods.
Regardless of what He is called, since the origin is only one, there can be only one God. Due to the many languages of the world, there are many names for God. Yet | God, the Original Being, is one.
The purpose that God pursues is manifested through religion. Hence, no matter how many religious bodies. Exist, as they follow their respective paths in pursuit of this purpose, they will reach the same destination.
To arrive at that destination there must be a teaching that can connect them to peace and the kingdom of heaven. (210-199, 1990.12.23)
16. Human beings have tried to realize a nation of peace. Yet no matter how hard they try, a peaceful nation and peaceful world are impossible through human efforts alone. If it were possible, it would have been done long ago, based on the devotion of the many saints and sages of ages past.
People in today's advanced scientific civilization interpret their existence through empiricism. They are struggling to discover something beyond that. Do you think humankind today can bring about an ideal world? The problem comes down to the conflict and disunity between the body and the mind.
It would not be a concern if our outer bodily aspect was united with our inner mind aspect. But instead, our body is the enemy, blocking the unity between mind and body. The mind wants to go straight ahead while the body's desires pull us in the opposite direction. (19-282, 1968.03.10)
17. When God created heaven and earth, He wanted the individual, family, nation, world, and cosmos to be based on goodness. He wanted to create the world He had envisioned, a world of peace based on love.
But as a result of the Fall, all of it was lost. Hence, the world that God created could not be a place of true individuals and nations; it could not be the world and cosmos He intended.
Instead, it gave rise to individuals, families, nations, a world, and a cosmos of misery. God has been toiling to this day to restore all of this. Our ancestors have followed the Will of restoration; yet they did not know how to restore the individual, family, nation, world, and cosmos by God's Will.
That is why I had to follow such a suffering course while striving to resolve the essential question of how to restore the individual, family, nation, world, and cosmos, and how to unite this cosmos with God's heart. After I discovered the Principle, I realized that it was necessary for humanity and vital for the realization of God's idea. (13-242, 1964.03.29)
Sun Myung Moon