The God of Grief!

Here's another evidence that Christianity, in its current form, has seriously missed the Mark. The popular view of God is that He's sitting on His throne of glory but, in stark contrast, the God revealed by Rev. Moon was one of grief and sorrow. There was a song, more than a decade ago, asking, "What if God was one of us?" by Alanis Morissette that, although crude, is a much more accurate description of God's true status.

This is not really described in detail in the Bible - the most clear reference being the one in Genesis 6:6 declaring that, 'God was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and that He was grieved in His heart'. I think that this glaring omission (lack of understanding of the God of grief) also has to do with a lack of understanding of the human portion of responsibility (with which even God cannot interfere with, or intervene in) that is connected with the essential reason as to why God created mankind at all.

For example, a common understanding is that God will some day save us from Satan. But, consider this: it was mankind who invited Satan in at the terrible event of the Fall of Man. So it is 'we the people', not God, who must invite Satan out again.

In an earlier post I explained the significance of God creating us in His image and this is what we need to connect with. Not an intellectual understanding of God, but a real relationship - which means that we (too) need to become 'Word made flesh'.

We need to deeply realize that we are the children of God (not some kind of pet) and God is deeply concerned about each and every one of us. We are, after all, individual truth bodies in image of God, whereas all other creation are individual truth bodies in symbol.

The implications of the Absolute and Eternal God are not properly understood either. If God is absolute, for example, He cannot simply destroy Satan (that also had his origin in God) as then God would patently be not absolute. The first thing that really impressed me when I first came across the teaching of Rev. Moon was the assertion that even Satan would have to be restored! That's very different from destroying Satan, right?

Let's go through this reasoning (although Christians don't seem to like logic and reasoning very much) together. Even God says let us reason together - in Isaiah; one of my favorite books of the Bible.

Love necessarily requires reciprocity. It would be strange for a famous operatic singer stranded on an uninhabited island to sing loudly and passionately, as an example. Again, when we're talking with someone and they turn away, or turn their back on us and walk away, it's difficult to continue, right? Love requires an object partner, at least 'one other'. The fundamental reason for the Creation of God was to add a new dimension to Love by Creating in His Image an object partner. Mankind is this 'one other' and we were supposed to become the temple of God. Jesus became a 'temple of God, and 1 Corinthians 3:16 shows that we aspire to become that also. And, of course, Jesus' saying that we must become 'perfect like God (Matt 5:48)

Of course there is 1 Corinthians 13 that talks about love; but what about this:

To resemble God, the original Being of true love, we should become the owners of true love. We should embody true love and practice it in order to develop our character. This is the way each of us can become true parents.

What is a life of true love? True love is the spirit of public service. It brings the peace that is at the root of happiness. Selfish love is a mask of the desire to have one’s partner exist for one’s own sake; true love is free from that corruption. Rather, its  essence is to give, to live for the sake of others and for the sake of the whole. True love gives, forgets that it has given, and continues to give without ceasing.

True love gives joyfully. We find it in the joyful and loving heart of a mother who cradles her baby in her arms and nurses it at her breast. True love is sacrificial love, as with a devoted son who gains his greatest satisfaction in helping his parents. God created the universe out of just such love: absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal, investing everything without any expectation or condition of receiving something in return.

True love is the wellspring of the universe. Once we possess it, true love makes us the centers and the owners of the universe. True love is God’s essence and the manifestation of His will and power. When we are bound together in true love, we can be together forever, in the continually increasing joy of each other’s company. The attraction of true love brings all things in the universe to our feet; even God will come to dwell with us. 

Nothing can compare to the value of true love. It has the power to dissolve the barriers fallen people have created, including national boundaries and the barriers of race and even religion.

The main attributes of true love are that it is absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal, so that whoever practices God’s true love will live with God, share His happiness, and enjoy the right to participate as an equal in His work. Therefore, a life lived for the sake of others, a life of true love, is the absolute prerequisite for entering the kingdom of heaven. 

Considering that true Love was lost as a direct result of the Fall means that God lost to Satan all that He had worked to create. Because Satan took mankind (first parents) who were the pinnacle of creation, Satan came to have dominion over everything else as well. This is why Satan is described, in the Bible, as being the false ruler (Jn12:31) and as the false god (2Cor4:4) of this world. Can You start to see why to consider God as a God of grief makes absolute and perfect sense?

God is like a father who labored and sweated his entire life to accumulate assets for his children, only to have a thief steal everything overnight.

​We are, at the time of writing, near the end of the year of the OX. This has been a time for awakening for many people as the division between 'O' being the correct answer, from 'X' being the false answer, has never been more apparent. (see Peace Message 17) What has taken place this year has given us a window, in real time, on the 'false ruler' and 'false god' of this world. We can see in the current administration here in the USA an almost desperate desire to destroy this great nation in the shortest possible time. But also in many nations throughout the world. Does this all feel like the veritable Last Days to You?

It should. (because it is!)

​We need to get wise to our own portion of responsibility and realize that, right now, is the time of judgement based on the choices that we make: essentially whether we choose to live for the sake of the whole purpose (as does God) or to live for the selfish (and immature) purpose (as does the false god). We should really stop thinking in apocalyptic terms and realize that all these indications of the Last Days described in the Bible are described figuratively and not (at all) literally.

There is evidence that the 2nd Advent of Christ must have already come between the years of 1917 and 1930. You owe it to yourself to check out this evidence before summarily dismissing it. St Paul did say to 'test all things, and hold fast to what is good, right?

As the 2nd coming took place already it means that it could not have taken place in a supernatural manner - as literally described in the Bible. Considering what the Messiah has to accomplish it should become apparent that he will have  to be born on the earth (as was Jesus) and this will make sense of the Christ coming with a 'new name' from the book of Revelation in the Bible. It will also make sense of the warnings that Jesus gave concerning the 2nd Advent - such as Lk18:8; Lk 17;25 and the very scary Matt 7:21-23. If you are on board with Satan being the false ruler and false god then you'll be primed already to expect that the person of the 2nd Advent will have a very 'bad press'. Now we should all understand, at a fundamental and real level, how destructive a bad press, fake news media is. Right?

Hoping that there are a sufficient number of conscientious people and real Christians who can start to engage with this new understanding. All these demonstrations - like the more than 60 miles line of truckers, are getting people together like never before. So we can actually talk together, too.

The purpose of this website is to put this new teaching in an accessible manner which is also accurate, in that the pdf versions align with the actual printed versions. Important if we're truly to become 'Word made flesh'.

Looking forward to hearing your impressions, feedback and critique. We should be able to reason together after all.

Thanking You and wishing you a successful conclusion to the year of the OX, and a Happy New Year ! (of Tiger).

Happy True God's Day ! ! !

​Andrew and Marie Derricutt