Pyeong Hwa Gyeong (143) Book 8. The Reunification of Korea and World Peace CHAPTER 12. The Reunification of Korea and World Peace
1. The new teaching for the future
The diverse problems of our world are complex and interconnected. Accordingly, under the overall banner of the World Culture and Sports Festival, here in this one location we will be addressing a wide range of issues in the fields of philosophy, politics, academia, religion, the media, science, art and other cultural fields.
I believe this will be an epoch-making event, which will help us discover the true way toward world peace. Moreover, the fact that the Summit Council and the World Sports Festival are convening simultaneously demonstrates the importance of balancing the spiritual and physical sides of human life.
Finally, at the heart of the festival is the largest mass wedding in history—30,000 couples, sincere, pure-hearted brides and grooms from 130 nations. As we enter the new historical age of the twenty- first century, I envision this grand festival centered on God as the pathway to realize true world peace.
If you look back at the history of our planet, there has not been a single day or even moment in which true freedom, peace and happiness existed on this earth. Communism, waving the banner of economic equality, proclaimed that it would free human beings from exploitation.
However, it is not the solution. It turned out to cause even greater conflict and poverty. We see that democracy, which puts forward the ideology of freedom in contrast to communism, has fallen into self-centered individualism and moral decay. The guns and fires of war are not receding from the face of the earth, as expected. In fact, intense confrontation and increasing chaos are casting an ominous shadow upon the future of the world.
No one has a right to harbor bitterness over the countless trials and pain that people have suffered. The cause was people’s own clinging to human-centered systems of thought that ignore the ideals and goals of God. Even if people did occasionally consider theological thought, because we have neither known nor understood the Will of God or His teachings, we have only a superficial grasp of the ultimate direction of history.
Let it be known that in the background of history, God our Parent has been carrying out His providence for the restoration of humankind. As we prepare to enter the twenty-first century, a new teaching must emerge that clearly examines God’s Will and His ideal for humanity. This new teaching should precisely clarify the true relationship between human beings and their Creator.
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