There is one living, eternal and true God, beyond space and time. Our Heavenly Parent possesses perfect intellect, emotion and will, whose deepest nature is heart and love, who combines both masculinity and femininity, who is the source of all truth, beauty and goodness, and who is the creator of humanity and the universe and of all things visible and invisible. Humanity and the universe reflect God's personality, nature, and purpose.

Humans are a special creation, made in God’s image and as God's children, like God in personality and nature and created to respond to God's love, to be the source of God's joy and to share God's creativity.

God’s desire for humanity and creation is eternal and unchanging: He wants men and women to fulfill the three blessings outlined in Genesis 1:28.

❖ To grow to perfection so as to be one in heart, will and action with God, having body and mind united together in perfect harmony centering on God’s love.

❖ To be united as husband and wife, giving birth to sinless children of God and ultimately a sinless world.

❖ To establish a loving dominion over the created world- a peaceful kingdom where humanity and nature co-exist in harmony.

The first man and woman fell into unprincipled love before reaching maturity. Thus, they turned away from God’s will and purpose, bringing themselves into spiritual death through the fall. The Archangel, Lucifer, became Satan, and usurped the position of humankind’s father so that thereafter all people were born in sin both physically and spiritually, having a sinful propensity. Satan maintains his relationship to us through false, selfish love. This is the misuse of love, and our misuse of love is the fundamental cause of suffering. God grieves for His lost children and world, and has to struggle to restore them.. Creation groans in travail, waiting to be liberated by the true children of God.

Fallen humankind can only be restored to God through Christ (the Messiah) who comes as the new Adam, God incarnate, to become the head of the human race. Through him humankind can be reborn into God’s family.

In order for God to send the messiah, humankind must restore that which was lost through the fall. The possibility of restoration comes through God’s grace alone. Restoration to the conditional pre-fallen status takes place through grace and indemnity (reparation in one form or another) for sin. Human history is the record of God and human’s relationship in the context of indemnity.

Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ, the Second Adam, the only begotten Son of God. Born without original sin, he was one with God, speaking the Word of God, doing God’s will and revealing God to the people. The New Testament teaches however, that the people rejected and crucified him, resisting the Holy Spirit and preventing his building the kingdom of God on earth. Jesus was nevertheless victorious over Satan through his resurrection, which made possible spiritual salvation for those who are reborn through the Holy Spirit. The establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth awaits the Second Coming of Christ.

The Old and New Testament are the inspired record of God’s revelation to humankind. Truth is unique, eternal and unchanging, so God’s further self-disclosure at the Second Coming will stand on the foundation of the Bible, be in conformity with the Bible, and will illuminate it more deeply. The Bible stands as evidence that God deals with humanity according to human’s spiritual status. Our spiritual and intellectual standard today is beyond that of 2,000 years ago. In these Last days, God will reveal the true meaning of the Bible and the way for humanity to accomplish what is as yet unfulfilled.

The problems of our world result from the disruption of our relationship with God and with each other. These problems will be solved through the restoration of humanity and God through Christ, and through resultant projects aimed at;

❖ Initiating proper moral standards and practices.

❖ Forming True Families.

❖ Facilitating dialogue between religions.

❖ Resolving the tensions between science and religion.

❖ Facilitating co-operative, God-centered solutions to economic, technological and political problems.

We believe that the Second Coming of Christ will occur in our age, an age much like that of the First Advent. Christ will come as before, as a man in the flesh and he will establish a family, becoming, with his wife, the True Parents of all humankind. Through our acceptance of them, our original sin will be eliminated and we will eventually become perfected. True Families fulfilling God’s ideal of creation will be established. The dwelling of God will be with humanity. That day is now at hand.

“The vision of the unity of humankind in relation to God is central to the teaching of Reverend Moon. This vision of unity is not uniformity, but incorporates into itself diversity…. Such a vision is what is most desperately required to move us beyond the impasse of the present.” 

Dr. M. Darrol Bryant, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada