Questions and answers

In classical theology, “omnipotence” means God can do all that is logically possible, “omniscience” means God knows all that can be known, and “omnipresence” means God is present everywhere in His creation.

The Divine Principle teaches that God created human beings for three inseparable reasons: to have a substantial object of love with whom He could share joy, to take on a visible form through completed sons and daughters , and to multiply a lineage of children who could inherit His heart.

The Divine Principle teaches that suffering was not part of God's original creation but entered human history through the Fall — the misuse of human freedom by the first ancestors.

The Divine Principle teaches that genuine repentance is not a single moment of regret but an ongoing process. It begins with a broken-hearted acknowledgement before God, it requires forgiving those who have wronged us before we can receive forgiveness ourselves, it demands turning the body away from its self-centered patterns so the mind and conscience can lead, and it is completed by walking a path of indemnity — concrete actions of service, sacrifice, and restored love that reverse what sin broke.

The Divine Principle teaches that the creation of the universe was not a sudden act completed in a literal week but a long, ordered process in which matter, life, and intelligence emerged in stages.

The Divine Principle teaches that every human being was created to live in direct heart-to-heart relationship with God as a beloved child — a bond the Fall severed, leaving a spiritual wall between humanity and the Creator.

Prayer in the Unification tradition is direct, purposeful communion with God oriented toward His will rather than toward personal petition. Rev. Sun Myung Moon taught that prayer is both a daily spiritual discipline — he recommended at least “one-tenth of the day” — and the means by which a person aligns his or her heart with Heaven's grief, purpose, and love for humanity.

God has no age. Unification theology teaches that God is eternal — without beginning and without end — existing before time and space came into being.

According to the Divine Principle, God is the invisible vertical Parent of humanity — a personal being with heart, will, and longing, who harmoniously contains dual characteristics and who stands as the eternal root of love, life, and lineage. He is not an abstract force or an impersonal ground of being, but a Parent whose identity is inseparable from His desire to be known and loved through a family of true children.

God is formless and invisible in His essence, but He reveals His image through perfected human beings.

No — according to the Divine Principle, Jesus is not God Himself. He is the only-begotten Son of God: a perfected human being, born without original sin , who stands in complete oneness with God in heart, love, and purpose, yet remains distinct from God as a created being.

The Divine Principle argues that God is real and that His existence can be inferred from a careful study of the created world. Every entity in the universe — from subatomic particles to human beings — displays paired characteristics such as internal nature and external form, which logically imply a First Cause that possesses these same qualities in absolute form.

God did not stop the Fall because doing so would have violated three foundational principles of His own creation.