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The God of Grief!

1/29/2022

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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. 
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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 
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Andrew Derricutt link
2/2/2022 14:39:04

reply to a Christian critical of my understanding of the 2nd Advent

Your email starts off with a reference to - 'you shall know them by their fruits' but is quickly scrapped for not fitting with your narrative. That's not very scientific of you. It means that Jesus' statement, "You shall know them by their fruits." is worthless as a measure. It means that "I" can't actually be kind, thoughtful, gentle, or someone who can be respected (as you stated in your email). It just means that "I" must have fooled you. If that is so, then any 'reasonable' argument is going to fall on deaf ears, right? You wouldn't try to reason with satan, for example. By definition Satan is not one that you can reason with. Jesus didn't reason with Satan when he was tempted by satan in the wilderness. He just used God's word (from Deuteronomy) to expose the lies that satan uttered.

Ad Hominem arguments are always weak. I'm not going to bother replying to those except to lump them all together under this: If what St Paul inferred, (Jn12:31) that satan is the ruler of the world, means that if you asked (of people of the world) what they thought of the real Lord of the 2nd Advent you would not get any trustworthy, or useful, answer. Moreover, St Paul, declared that satan is also the 'false god' of this world (2Cor4:4) implying that satan has a lot of control over what is accepted as true, or not, (bit like your reference to Prov17:15 (similar to Isa5:20)) You have to know that it very difficult to ascertain what is true from what is not, given that satan is the false ruler, and false god. We have direct experience of that from 'fact checkers' that are employed by official news and media sources, right here in the USA.

I have met with Rev Moon, and with some of his children. I have been connected with Rev Moon for more than 40 years. I gave up my career and estranged my family in order to 'put my money where my mouth is (so to speak) and become a full time member. I have read 'anti Moon' books such as 'The Moon is not the Sun', 'Bad Moon Rising', 'In the Shadow of the Moons'. I even watched the movie, 'Ticket to Heaven' with a 'Center Leader', shortly after it came out in 1981 and, even though I was going through a hard time then, never thought that what they were depicting had sufficient truth in it. So if I haven't seen what you claim to see by now, then I am already a hopeless case. Right?

That I am still firmly on the side that recognizes Rev. Moon as the 2nd Advent seems to fly in the face of 'logic'. What do I have to gain from this deception?
Will I gain standing in my church? Nope. There is no church. The 2nd Advent, even from a logical point of view, spells the end of religion. Even Rev21:22 states that there are no churches/ temples.
Will I gain money? I'm not making any money from this, and don't intend to either.
Will I gain fame? bearing in mind that this is still largely rejected by mainstream Christianity even now - anyways fame is overrated.

You say that Jesus came to die (so 'we' could be saved). Yet, Jesus was put to death because he was rejected as Messiah. That doesn't add up and I wrote an essay to show how illogical that idea is - "The Massive Cognitive Dissonance at the Core of Conventional Christianity."

We do, undeniably, have the lineage of the Fall and this becomes a means through which satan can lay claim to us. The re-birth from Jesus and the Holy Spirit is patently spiritual only as re-born parents give birth to children still connected with the Fall. Adam and Eve were born sinless and still screwed up. So, being of God's lineage doesn't mean that you magically won't make mistakes. So criticizing Rev Moon's children is, strictly speaking, not your gig. But mistakes that are connected to the motivation behind the Fall of Man are very serious indeed.

Jesus did not fail. Unless you put it at Jesus' door that he failed to get true disciples, failed to win the heart of the then Chosen people, but this is similar to the 'failure' of God to have the first human ancestors achieve perfection (Matt5:48). Where Love is involved, force, or compelled compliance, simply won't work. In this wise, you state that God can do anything He wants but

God cannot Love all by Himself

and this is at the heart of why God made the Creation at all. You state that 'my' God is a whiny, pathetic God that 'needs' me etc.
But. The corollary is of 'your' God being one who doesn't really mind whether ‘you’ are there or not. His LOVE is multidimensional and your love is meager and worthless etc. 'Your' God doesn't make any sense of Jesus' statement that, "you will do better things than I have done", or with the heart of a parent who sincerely wishes for his (or her) children to be better than himself. This trait btw comes from God, the Original, Vertical, Parent of mankind.

With the attitude displayed in your email I don't see how we can have meaningful discussions even though I would only use words that are actually wri

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Andrew Derricutt link
2/2/2022 14:45:01

With the attitude displayed in your email I don't see how we can have meaningful discussions even though I would only use words that are actually written in the Holy Bible (in whatever version you deem worthy) I too was truly surprised to find this hidden meaning exposed in the Bible when I first came across this teaching. This is, indeed, one of the reasons that, for me, logically speaking, Rev Moon must be the personage of the 2nd Advent. To make sense of the Bible to just one fundamental line of explanation. Rev Moon also introduced the term “True Parents” as being more meaningful than Christ or Messiah which is totally in line with the ultimate focus of the providence of restoration (that is recorded in the Bible).

Anyways, back to you, but, I'm not holding my breath . . .

AD

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    I came to Christ through the Lord at His Second Coming. I have been connected with what some would regard as a ‘New Age cult’ for more than 40 years. I want, through this website, to share what I’ve come to understand, and show that it stands up to scrutiny, and criticism.

    Until quite recently I had regarded Christians as the enemy of the Lord of the Second Advent! But then, through Rev. Moon’s successor, Hyung Jin Moon, after his ‘Breaking the Silence’ (2015 January) where he emphasized the Bible (KJV) and spoke almost exclusively of Jesus, grace and faith I decided to connect with a Christian church (Belmont Church in Harrow, London, UK) to find out about these aspects of faith and grace which I had no idea about.

    My strength was the words of truth, as I saw it, that were contained in the ‘Exposition of the Divine Principle’. This is the basic teaching of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon that, for me, made sense of the Bible.

    That Hyung Jin Moon (aka Sean Moon) has since become irrelevant is regrettable but should not become a stumbling block. The 8 Great Sacred Texts (available on the Resources page) constitute the New Age Truth that we need to connect with (from the Lord of the Second Coming) and, I believe, these are absolute.

    So began a journey that opened up the teaching of Rev Moon to an understanding where I came to realize that I am a Christian, Jesus IS the Messiah (as opposed to was the Messiah) and a complete reappraisal of this teaching which is what I want to share through this means.

    OK; there are abridged explanations and sudden conclusions already but I will deal with those if you write to me; let us reason together - and test all things and hold fast to what is good! Also a lot of these can be overcome by reading, "The Exposition of the Divine Principle".

    Thanks for engaging with this and I hope to hear from you so that we can share together as brothers and sisters in Christ and arrive at an understanding of the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven that is more to do with 1 Corinthians 3:16 than John 3:16 Thank You for visiting this website.

    Let us reason together . . .

    Andrew Derricutt

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