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TABLE 1: UNIFICATION CHURCH
Introduction
We now have the means to heal all modern-day human problems, exalt every human soul,
and bring the Kingdom of God within the reach of every man (Moon, Christianity in Crisis, p. ix).
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God
God Himself told me that the most basic and central truth of this
universe is that God is the Father and we are His children
(CIC, p. 9).
There is one living, eternal, and true God, a Person beyond space and
time...source of all truth, beauty, and goodness...creator and
sustainer of man and the universe (Declaration of Unification
Theological Affirmations at Barrytown, New York, October 14,
1976).
God, being the First Cause of all creation, also exists because of a
reciprocal relationship between the dual characteristics of positivity
and negativity....We call the positivity and negativity of God
"masculinity" and "femininity" respectively (Moon, Divine
Principle, p. 24).
God existed as the internal masculine subject, and He created the
universe as His external feminine object (DP, p. 25).
Man is the visible--and God is the invisible form. God and man are one.
Man is incarnate God...as important in value as God Himself
(CIC, p. 5).
God is just like you and me. All human traits originate in God
(CIC, p. 4).
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Jesus Christ
As a man [Jesus was] no different from us except for the fact that he
was without original sin (DP, p. 212).
He was the one who lived God's ideal in fullest realization
(CIC p. 12).
He "attained" the purpose of creation (DP, p. 290).
In light of his attained deity he may well be called God. Nevertheless,
he can by no means be called God Himself (DP, pp. 210-11).
The death of Jesus was neither his will nor his fault. [It was] murder,
and his body was taken by Satan (CIC, p. 104).
He will come again as the third Adam, the lord of the Second Advent.
The Kingdom of God will gradually appear (DP, p. 506).
Jesus came as the sinless Adam, or perfected Adam. His first mission
was to restore his bride and form the first family of God. But he was
crucified. Jesus Christ must come again to consummate the mission he
left undone 2,000 years ago (CIC, p. 27). See
"Reincarnation."
Christ will be born in a country in the East...and will place a
seal on the foreheads of the 144,000 (DP, p. 520).
Korea should be the nation that can receive the Lord of the Second
Advent (DP p. 520).
Even in the spirit worid after his resurrection, he lives as a spirit
man with his disciples (DP, p. 212).
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Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is a female Spirit. She also cleanses the sins of the
people in order to restore them, thus indentifying the sin committed by
Eve....the Holy Spirit, being female (negativity) in working on earth
(DP, p. 215).
There must be a True Mother with the True Father, in order to give
rebirth to fallen children as children of goodness. She is the Holy
Spirit (DP, p. 215).
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Sin
Adam and Eve...were tempted by the archangel Lucifer into illicit
and forbidden love. Through this, Adam and Eve willfully turned away
from God's will and purpose for them, thus bringing themselves and the
human race into spiritual death (DUTA).
Evil is the emergence of selfishness into this world. God's principle
of unselfish giving was twisted into an ungodly principle of selfish
taking. The origin of evil is Satan (CIC, pp. 16-17).
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Redemption
God's will that all people be restored to Him is predestined
absolutely, and He has elected all people to salvation
(DUTA).
He [Jesus] must come again to consummate the mission he left undone
2,000 years ago. He was crucified...not given a chance to restore his
bride (CIC, p. 27).
God's work has been the restoration of original goodness....To do this
job God needs certain tools. The religions of the world have served as
these tools for God....Christianity may be considered the most
advanced and progressive religion because it teaches this sacrificial
love and duty in supreme form (CIC, pp. 17-18).
Christ will come as before, as a man in the flesh, and he will
establish a family through marriage to his Bride, a woman in the flesh
and they will become the True Parents of all mankind. Through our
accepting the True Parents (the Second Coming of Christ), obeying them
and following them, our original sin will be eliminated and we will
eventually become perfect (DUTA).
Marriage is the most important means of establishing God's kingdom on
earth (CIC, p. 25).
God intended to make Adam and Eve one in heavenly matrimony. Then they
would have borne sinless children and become the true mother and father
for all mankind...establishing the heavenly kingdom on earth
(CIC, p. 26).
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Salvation (Resurrection and Eternal Life)
The invisible world was not created after the fall...it had been
created before the creation of men so that their spirits, after they
had accomplished the purpose of creation, might go and live there
forever, once they had discarded their flesh, after their physical life
on earth (DP, p. 168).
Physical [death] is not a result of the fall...spiritual death
signifying the degradation to Satanic dominion, is the real death
caused by the fall (DP, p. 169).
The human body, once it is dissolved into dust, cannot be resurrected
to its original state. It is not necessary for a spirit man to resume
his flesh, when there is a vast spirit world where he is supposed to go
and live forever (DP, p. 170).
Therefore, "resurrection," means the phenomena occurring in the process
of man's restoration....When we repent of our sins, making ourselves
better and better, day by day, we are coming closer to resurrection
(DP, p. 170).
Paradise is the region of the spirit world where those spirit men who
have attained the life-spirit stage by believing in Jesus while on
earth go after death and stay until the gate to the Kingdom of Heaven
is opened (DP, p. 177).
The providence of restoration, beginning on the individual level, is
headed for the final goal of the restoration of the entire cosmos
(DP, p. 187).
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Retribution (Reincarnation)
The spirit men who left their missions unaccomplished on earth descend
to earthly men...and cooperate with them for the accomplishment of
the will....In this case, the earthly man is the "second coming" of
the spirit man...John the Baptist...had to accomplish the
mission Elijah had left unaccomplished (DP, pp. 187-88).
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Taken from: The Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Error 2. Compiled by Steven Cory. Copyright 1986, Moody Bible
Institute of Chicago. Moody Press. Used by permission.
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