Earthly Life and Spirit World (Part 1) - 035 by Rev. Sun Myung Moon [1] The Existence Of Human Beings On Earth And In The Spirit World 5) The Blessing And Eternal Life
1. The Reasons Why We Need To Know About The Matter Of The Eternal Life - 1
Why have the families in this world been destroyed? Even mother, father, and children became enemies. Why is it so? Because there is no true love. The most important thing is eternal life. However, they don't know if there is a spirit world or not.
If you know clearly there is a spirit world, you can't commit a crime even if others tell you to do so. You can't live for yourself even if others tell you to do so. Without knowing this, even if you believe in Christianity or believe in any other religion, you can't go to heaven. You can't go to the ideal world. You can't go there without pouring out true love and life. (205:261)
If the matter of eternal life doesn't connect with religious principles, even a social revolution is impossible. If the social circumstances become more corrupt and ruined, no one has a basis to reach eternal life. When you deal with the matter of eternal life, however, you can overcome all circumstances. Therefore, religion is so great. The matter of eternal life depends on this. Only if you are sure of the concepts of the matters of eternal life and establish the understanding that it is a fact can you guide your own sons and daughters.
Until now, no religion could embrace such a complete theory or could digest all of the structures that became the present culture. The background is habits of culture relating to the circumstances. It couldn't go beyond the circumstances. Why was it so? They couldn't create the concept of eternity.
Isn't it so in Christianity? In Christianity people kept faith until now. The closer they came to reaching the end of the world and the more the circumstances have changed, the more things went wrong. Why? It is because they have lost the concept of eternity. They don't have confidence in the matter of eternal life. They are not sure if there is a God or not.
Regarding this matter, they could not go beyond the circumstances by risking their lives. Everyone stays there, looking around, and falls into the comfortable way of this present life. Unless the concept of the eternal penetrates into them, they will fall into the middle sphere of the spirit world. Who can insert the concept of the eternal lineage into them? Only Unification Church teachings can penetrate them.
If you are confident that our present life is not preparation for the physical life but for the life of the eternal world you can leave it alone.
The more our days pass, 40 years old and 50 years old, and the closer the day of our death comes, the more serious we become about the concept of eternity. Do you understand what I am talking about? |
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