Bullet Point 6 (of 12) God can do anything He likes (misses the mark)

Bullet Point 6 (of 12) God can do anything He likes misses the mark, as it doesn't make sense of why God did not intervene in the Fall of Man. Or why this dysfunctional world characterized by conflict, poverty, ignorance, war and disease has endured so long and has come to be accepted as ‘normal’.

The failure to understand the fundamental purpose behind the Creation and the relationship that mankind was originally supposed to enjoy with God has led to this inadequate assertion by present day Christianity. This series of 12 bullet points is evidence that Christianity is in urgent need of an overhaul so that it can become vibrant and relevant in these Last Days..

Here are some insights (CSG pp315,316) about True Love from Rev. Moon:

Love is something that even God cannot fulfill alone. Love can only be attained on the basis of a relationship with another. Where does love begin? It does not begin from oneself; it grows and develops through having a partner. 

Where is the root of true love kept? Even though God is all-knowing and all-powerful, the root of love is not kept within Him. Although the omniscient and omnipotent God is the central figure of true love, He does not want to keep the root of love within Himself. God wants love to take root in the person who is to be the object of love.
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Love is something you cannot fulfill if you are centered on yourself. Love does not begin from oneself; it begins and is later fulfilled through one’s partner in love. Therefore love cannot be fulfilled without a counterpart.

The core of the universe is human beings, and the core of human beings is life. The root of life is love, and the root of love is God, but this love cannot be realized by someone all alone. You need a relationship with a partner to realize love. As God is the origin of love, the only beings qualified to be partners in that love are human beings. 

What kind of beings did God create us to be? We were created to be the object partners of God’s love, to have His absolute and unique value. He created man and woman to enter with Him into a partnership of love, thereby endowing them with greater value than that of even the whole universe. Human beings are born from love and raised with love, and they live in love until they die in love. But it is not as if they just disappear. Since the subject of love, God, is eternal, unchanging and unique, when we stand in front of such a God, as the object partner of His love, we have eternal life. 

Understanding these fundamental things leads us to understand that the family (centered upon God) is the smallest unit of the kingdom of heaven and, furthermore, is the ‘school of love’. These qualities are expressed in the Peace Messages that were given by Rev. Moon and his family from the 1990s and the first decade of the new millennium. Without this understanding we will undoubtedly have a skewed picture of God, our Heavenly Father. I hope you can see how Christianity needs to be raised up to a new level of a God Centered Ideology rather than that of a vague belief. The 2nd Advent spells the end of religion after all.

With this in mind I would like to invite you to a 3 day seminar at a mountain retreat, from March 18th - 20th, in W Virginia, USA, or attend on-line. “Mission of the Messiah” and “True Parents in the Completed Testament Age” are among the topics. Looking forward to seeing you there. Let’s spring-clean our worldview and get real about God!

Andrew and Marie Derricutt