Heavenly Parent's Holy Community Peace Festival -- Understanding the Biblical Principle of Love

Hello! I am the senior pastor of Pamphylia Church, and chair of KCLC in the Seoul and Incheon area. I would like to first congratulate Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon on the sixty-first anniversary of their Holy Wedding. Also, I sincerely thank you for giving me this opportunity to express my religious opinion on Heavenly Parent through the Heavenly Parent’s Holy Community Peace Festival.

I am a Protestant pastor and theologian. This morning we are celebrating Easter Sunday, the day Jesus was resurrected and came back to life after dying on the cross. Though this is a difficult time for me to come here, I felt a sense of mission; I had to come, which is why I stand here on this very special occasion. Christianity, which has inherited Jehovah God and God’s tradition from Judaism, has only understood God as a father with dignity. When Christianity began with the work of the Holy Spirit, God’s work was understood as being male- centered and exercised under paternal authority. As a result, the reality of God’s maternal love could not be revealed at all.

Ever since, I came to know Hak Ja Han Moon, True Mother, I came to realize the maternal principle of God’s love in the Bible. I was able to understand the androgynous existence of God. For God to relate with humans, he must be an androgynous God. Hence, I confess that God the Father, as understood in Christian tradition, is also God the Mother at the same time.

Through the creation of Adam and Eve came about the subjectivity of application and multiplication based on the marital relationship led by the Holy Spirit. However, Adam and Eve did not realize any of these wonders, and ended up falling. As a result, no one among humanity was ever able to understand the concept of a true couple. As a result, a true family could not be created and humanity had to follow the way of the Fall. Therefore, the mission of the messiahs, who come for the salvation of humanity, must be the work of restoring families through God’s only begotten son, True Father, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, and God’s only begotten daughter, True Mother, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, who are filled with God’s Holy Spirit.

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In addition, I remember what Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon said at the inauguration of WCLC in New York in December 2019. Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon clearly stated that she was the True Parent and God’s only begotten daughter on that day, and the approximately thirty-five thousand people from seventeen countries participating on that day quite naturally listened what True Mother said.

Though several nations and several races had come together on that day, it felt like one family. Christians in Korea tend to understand the Bible from a quite doctrinal standpoint. However, as I observed the Family Federation and their work, it hit home to me that looking at the Bible from a global perspective was the new standard. I was deeply moved through the Family Federation church communities — how they were practicing the true family movement, knowing that one has to work on one’s family to become an ideal family.

Religions have a lot in common in that each desires goodness and peace. Tolerance between religions is essential. A great point I commend about the Heavenly Parent’s Holy Community, led by True Mother, is that it is trying to harmonize and become one by embracing other religions. This, however, would have been impossible if it weren’t for the peace philosophy of loving humanity.

As the incarnation of the Holy Spirit sent by Heavenly Parent, wherever she goes, God’s only begotten daughter, True Mother, has been enlightening people with the truth that humanity is one family under Heavenly Parent, and showing people the right way to serve and attend Heavenly Parent. Since the Heavenly Parent is a God of fullness, I would like to say thank you to the Mother of Peace as we can now

feel Heavenly Parent’s love through her. I would like to conclude my message with my most sincere hope that a day will come when all people on earth can follow Heavenly Parent and live as one family. Before ending, I would like to recite this poem, “Mother Christ.”

Mother Christ

Where is the woman dressed in divine green clothes who can stand in front of creation as the star of the spring day

Once again, where is the woman with foresight and insight to answer all the fundamental questions of life, and who has the skills to feed her children

Until a woman with a heart of love that can persuade us to resemble her, appears, we are like lonely people who are like orphans, widows, and travelers with a thirst that we cannot but be compared to summer droughts.

A love that I could only watch, but can now touch with the eyes of my body – the truth about identification. In front of it, O existences who have experienced eternal motherly love, go into the room where children with God’s nature are conceived.

Then, having transformed into a woman that creates the divinity of Christ as a mother, show firmness as a leader of all people! On the cross, having discovered my mother Just as I made the resolve with noble eyes, Facing that silent woman standing in front of me.

With the confession of faith that can tell you she is your mother, let us all celebrate the green sunshine of May.

Gather around my beloved children! And welcome with joyful hearts the Mother Christ who has clearly appeared, and who is shining brightly within the eternal image of the mother. Amen Hallelujah!