Pyeong Hwa Gyeong (061) - God’s Model for Absoluteness, Peace and the Ideal Is the Family and Global Kingdom Upholding Absolute Sexual Morality
2. Absolute sexual morality
The first stage of absolute sexual morality is to maintain a standard of absolute sexual purity prior to getting married. After we are born, we go through a process of growth. We pass through infancy and childhood in a very safe and secure environment formed by our parents’ love and protection. We then enter the period of adolescence, which signals the start of a new and dynamic time of forging relationships on a totally new level with the people and things of creation all around us. This is the time we begin to travel the path of becoming a truly mature person, internally through the perfection of our character, and externally by reaching adulthood.
Yet all people, no matter who they are, must meet one absolute requirement if they hope to grow to spiritual maturity. That requirement is to maintain their sexual purity. True love among true people is based on the model of absolute sexual morality. God gave this direction to His children as a destined responsibility and duty, to be carried out in order to fulfill the ideal of creation. The only way to perfect the model of absoluteness in conjugal love is to follow this heavenly path.
What was the one and only commandment God gave to Adam and Eve, the first human ancestors, after He created them? It was the commandment and blessing to maintain an absolute standard of sexual abstinence until God’s approval of their marriage. We find the basis for this in the Bible passage that indicates that Adam and Eve would surely die on the day they ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. If they had refrained from eating and observed Heaven’s commandment, they would have perfected their character and stood as equal co-creators with God, the Creator. Furthermore, they would have taken dominion over the creation and become lords of the universe, enjoying eternal and ideal happiness.
It was God’s blessing that He warned Adam and Eve to preserve their sexual purity, so that they might marry with His Blessing as true children, become true husband and wife, give birth to true children and become true parents. This explanation deepens our understanding of this commandment; it was essentially a loving parental warning to Adam and Eve about absolute sexual morality, which is a principle of God’s creation. The profound truth hidden within God’s commandment throughout history was that we are meant to inherit and live by a model of sexual morality that is intrinsic to God’s ideal for creation. Only by doing so can we perfect our individuality as God’s children and establish ourselves as lords of creation.
The second stage of absolute sexual morality applies to the relationship between husband and wife. More precious than life itself, this is the heavenly law of absolute fidelity. Husband and wife are eternal partners given to each other by Heaven. By having children, husband and wife become co-creators of true love, true life and true lineage, and the origin of that which is absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal. It is a heavenly principle that one person alone cannot give birth to a child, even in a thousand years.
How can people who preserve their purity before marriage, and whom God binds together in a pure marriage as husband and wife, deviate from the heavenly way and go astray, following the wrong path? People are different from animals. If we understand God’s purpose in creating us as His children, we will realize that the wrong path is one of unimaginable betrayal and defiance of the Creator. It is a path of self-destruction along which we dig our own graves. Resulting from the Fall, this path is outside the realm of the ideal of creation.
Ladies and gentlemen, absolute sexual morality is the greatest blessing that Heaven has bestowed on humankind. Without adhering to the standard of absolute sexual morality, the path to perfecting one’s character and attaining spiritual maturity is closed. Furthermore, without securing the foundation of absolute sexual morality through perfected individuals in a true family, it is impossible for God to manifest His stature as a God who is personal and incarnate in us.
In order for God, the Absolute Being, to have direct dominion over our lives and to live and share joy with us, we who were created as His object partners and His children need to form perfected families based on the standard of absolute sexual morality, as He intended. Only by living within the boundaries of absolute sexual morality is it possible for a family to create lifelong relationships based on the ideal model God originally intended for us. This model life includes the three-generational realm of grandparents, parents, children and grandchildren. Please understand clearly that God’s eternal life and our eternal life are possible only on this foundation.
Therefore, if Adam and Eve had achieved individual maturity, the perfection of their character, by upholding absolute sexual morality in accordance with God’s Will, and had then entered into conjugal relations through His Blessing, they would have attained complete oneness with Him. God would have dwelt within their union. Also, their children would have been linked to this holy order of love, enjoying a direct relationship with God as their Parent. In other words, the marriage of perfected Adam and Eve, based on their absolute sexual morality, would have been God’s own marriage. God is forever God, yet at the same time Adam and Eve were to have become embodiments of God. They would have become God’s body. God would have settled inside their minds and hearts to become the True Parent of humankind in both the spirit world and physical world, upon their foundation.
Do you know what has pained God’s heart the most, causing Him the greatest grief throughout the long history since the Fall of Adam and Eve? God lost His lineage. He lost His close relationship with people, and even His ownership over the creation. God’s lineage is more precious than life itself. Without it, the fruits of true life and true love never matured. They became instead the fruits of Satan, lacking any relationship with God. From such people descended the 6.5 billion people now inhabiting the earth. |