God's Hope for Man

Although this speech is from 1973 October 20th it is fresh and relevant. This has really interesting Christological elements in it as it reveals why, exactly, God ventured to create mankind. And this is important to realize what the ideal relationship should be, between God and mankind. The significance of being made  "in the Image of God" is made abundantly clear.

This speech is now available as an AudioBook download (here) and you can engage with these ideas and evaluate them. I was listening to it today while i was making lunch. Whilst peeling potatoes listening to one chapter which was followed by music from Handel while they were in the microwave and then another chapter from God's Hope for Man and so on and got through 2/3 of this speech when the potatoes were finally cooked from the air-frier and came together with the chicken and peas.

I think people are smart enough to figure out whether Rev Moon is real or not through listening to his ideas. I think that generally people haven't given the time to this that it deserves because the press, at that time, was so against everything about Rev Moon. (very similar to TDS!). So people didn't even make a start to check it for themselves but, rather, deferred to "experts" who declared it false.  The purpose of these audio books is to make these easier to engage so that you can listen to some chapters first, like putting your toe in the water.

I had a realization from Jesus' declaration: "that we should be perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect;" (Matthew 5:48) in that this is totally obtainable. And, this speech makes it clear that we (human beings) are the ones that God created to be His object partner. It also reveals the very interesting point, that before the creation, God was all alone. God in making His object partner necessarily had to invest everything; holding nothing back. It was a total investment of Himself. So the statement in the Bible that we are in the image of God takes on a whole new meaning and also that God has to effect the restoration without invading our own portion of responsibility as that gives us the qualification to be on a higher level than the rest of creation created as symbolic expressions of God for all things, up to and including the angels.

I feel the time is now right to revisit Rev. Moon and his teachings. The last decade, especially, has woken up a lot of people that the media has been lying a lot. This is the antidote.

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