UnionStation.love official launch
September 18th, evening: Panel Discussion on:
Why is sexual abstinence before marriage the best choice for teens and young adults? in-person event and also online.
September 19th, 10:30 a.m. Expert panel discusses Finding Your Eternal Match in Today’s Culture, In-person and online.
September 20th, 10:30 a.m. Mountain Top Family Fellowship, In-person
All events are in Harpers Ferry, WV.
Cheon Seong Gyeong 579
God would not be the Absolute Being if He had created people to live for just a few days and perish. He created them as precious beings that He wants to keep seeing and cherish eternally.
We know that we are the object partners God can derive joy from. As He is eternal, we must also be eternal. The eternal God relates with an eternal world.
However, there are many people who have lived thinking, “I’ve lived up to eighty. That will do, and when I die, that’s the end of it.” Yet in the course of history, there were people who pondered the question of immortality. They wondered if there was any way to live eternally without dying. The more people held on to this ideal, the more they thought and asked themselves, “What’s the meaning of life? Why are people born and then go away like travelers?” and they concluded, “Life is suffering. It is like the coming and going of grass.” Yet, if they could live forever, there would be no need for such worries. (39-228, 1971.1.15)
Cheon Seong Gyeong 1394
I view the 30,000 and 360,000 Couples Blessings as uphill tasks. The Blessing of 3.6 Million Couples is the watershed. From now on, our path is an easy one downhill. In descending, we can accelerate and gain momentum down on the opposite slope. The 36 million Couple Blessing can be said to be the counterpart of the 360,000 Couples Blessing, and then after we complete the 360 million Couple Blessing, the mountains that are the families of the satanic world will collapse completely. With the collapse of these families, the world will become a flatland. As these mountains of fallen families remained standing until now, God has been unable to travel freely between heaven and earth. (286-247, 1997.8.11)
Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon
Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity
Chapter 2
The Internal Meaning of Sin and the Fall
Section 4. The Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was Eve’s Sexual Organ
4.1. Covering their sexual parts was an indication of sin
Summary:
The Fall of humanity could not have been caused by eating literal, physical fruit 🍎, because plants are lower in creation than human beings and physical matter cannot corrupt a superior spiritual spirit 🧠. Interpreting the fruit literally is a materialistic mistake 🚫. Instead, the passage asserts that the true nature of the Fall was a profound spiritual crisis—which is why Adam and Eve covered their sexual parts 🙈 rather than their mouths—and emphasizes that individuals must use their own free will to actively reject evil and cling tightly to God 🕊️.
Why did Adam and Eve cover their sexual parts after the Fall? Christianity does not know. What? Did Adam and Eve eat a fruit? Why would God expel His beloved son and daughter? How serious the problem must have been that God had to expel them! (197-263, 1990.1.19)
Eve became the mother of two worlds. She came to stand in a midway position in between good and evil. Then, who must decide whether to follow the direction of good or evil? A person himself or herself must decide. In order to do so, one must crush evil and Satan and cling to God. One must cling to God with a power several times stronger than the power he or she uses to strike Satan. In order to strike evil you must exert all your strength. At the same time, you must cling to God with even greater force. (31-18, 1970.4.8)
What was the Fall? In Christianity they say it was eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Thus, they think that this was a fruit of an actual tree. However, a fruit cannot have the same value as a human being. Among all creatures, plants were originally created to be under human beings. God did not create plants possessing elements that are able to cause the Fall of beings superior to them. (166-42, 1987.5.28)
In established churches, they say that eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is the Fall. Such an interpretation is materialistic. If you say that a spiritual entity fell because a person ate something material, then how is it different from communist theory, which claims that spirit arises from matter? Did the human spirit fall because someone ate something material? Can a spiritual being fall because a person eats something physical? If you say that the physical was degraded because of the spirit, that is understandable, but saying that a spiritual being fell because of matter does not make sense. It is materialism that states that the spirit is derived from matter. (41-292, 1971.2.17)
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