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 Religious Movements Homepage: The Unification Church
This was the official birth of the Unification Church.
Unification theology looks forward to the day in which religions, governments, and science are all united in the Kingdom of God on Earth.
The Unification Church announced in 1992 that Reverend Moon is the Messiah, or the second coming of Jesus Christ as prophesied in the Bible (Restoration from the Origin and Rebirth are for Myself,
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/unification2.html   (8822 words)

  
 Unification Stuff
The essence and purpose of the Unification Church are religious.
Finally, the leader of the Unification Church doesn't "use" religion.
The Unification Church unashamedly promotes its doctrine that the sinful consequence of the fall of man described in the Bible is a cheapening of one of the most beautiful and spiritually vital aspects of human creation -sex.
http://www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Topics/U-Stuff/COM-QSTN.htm   (5582 words)

  
 Unification Church - Moonies
A central teaching of the Unification Church is that God's will was thwarted by the crucifixion of Jesus.
The doctrine of the Unification Church is highly eclectic and spiritistic in nature.
Unification Church members feel that the Messiah is already on earth, although many are reticent about publicly declaring that Sun Myung Moon is that Messiah.
http://mb-soft.com/believe/txo/unificat.htm   (1081 words)

  
 Mormonism Research Ministry - Articles - 8 Characteristics of a Counterfeit Christian Church
Counterfeit Christian churches often make it a point to cast doubt and suspicion on other churches or denominations, with the leader oftentimes claiming that only his church is true.
One group with such a belief is the Boston Church of Christ, also known as the International Churches of Christ.
He also claims that Jesus was not God, teaching that the deity of Christ was not a Christian teaching for the Christian church's first 300 years.
http://www.mrm.org/multimedia/text/counterfeit-christian-church.html   (1477 words)

  
 Unification Church under siege in Brazil
According to Unification Church's leaders in Brazil, such as Neudir Ferabolli, a lawyer for the organization whose own bank records were among those seized, the blitz on the church's holdings represents religious persecution by authorities and individuals, who do not understand the group's philosophy or its purpose in Brazil.
Over the years, both the Catholic Church and Protestant movements have sought to have the Unification Church expelled from Brazil, sending letters to the Justice Ministry about the alleged "depersonalization" of Moon's followers and questioning his "unorthodox" interpretation of Christian theology.
Schanker says he believes the church is being subjected to unwarranted persecution.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/683119/posts   (3210 words)

  
 C:\257temp\moonies
The Unification Church (officially, The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity) was founded in 1954 by Young Myung Moon in Pusan, South Korea.
The Unification Church is a vast financial as well as spiritual empire.
Michael Mickler, a member of the Unification Church, who earned a PhD in political science at the University of California, Berkely, has written a paper on the "Future Prospects of the Unification Church" which addresses the conflicts within the church and what this may portend after Moon's death.
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/lectures/moonies.html   (905 words)

  
 IRC RightWeb Group Watch: Unification Church
He was in the church from 1967 to 1973 and now claims not to be affiliated with the church.
According to the majority opinion, the challenge being presented to the Unification Church was not to its teachings or its right to practice its religion.
CARP, or the Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles, is the university branch of the Unification Church.
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/groupwatch/ucm.php   (10315 words)

  
 THEOLOGY PROPER of Christian School Essay on The Unification Church, moonies, Sun Myung Moon
The Unification Church believes that God communicated his Word through Moses in the Old Testament age and through Jesus Christ in the New Testament age.
hough the Unification Church reveres the Bible as a scripture, they fundamentally replace it with the Divine Principle.
The views supported by the Unification Church are either based on non-biblical assumptions, or on misinterpreted scripture.
http://www.geocities.com/craigmaxim/e-1b.html   (1461 words)

  
 PUBLIC BELIEFS, Sun Myung Moon, Unification Church, Rev. Moon, Moonies
The Holy Book of the Unification Church is called The Divine Principle (DP).
he Unification Church, formally known as "The Holy Spirit Association For The Unification Of World Christianity" was founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon in Korea in 1954.
More of these types of heretical and just plain "strange" teachings and practices of Moon's church are detailed in my Insider-Secret Doctrines of The Unification Church.
http://www.geocities.com/craigmaxim/u-1a.html   (1188 words)

  
 CESNUR - From the Unification Church to the Unification Movement, 1994-1999: Five Years of Dramatic Changes
Park, who had left the Unification Church, claimed that Rev. Moon practiced during the church's early years sex rituals with, among others, six married female disciples ("the six Marys") who were to have prepared the way for the virgin who would marry him and become the True Mother.
The Unification Church will continue, in order to support the religious functions of its members, as the Unification Family Church, one of the many religious organizations within the FFWPU.
This, the church insists, does not in any way give permission to members to violate their blessing and the Divine Principle's fundamental standard of one man and one woman for eternity.
http://www.cesnur.org/testi/moon_1199.htm   (3535 words)

  
 EXAMPLES OF THE USE OF DECEPTION BY THE UNIFICATION CHURCH
But whenever this author has confronted Unification Church members with a teaching of the Bible which contradicts their teaching, the Unification response has been to reject the Bible as wrong and to choose the teachings of Sun Myung Moon and the Divine Principle over the teachings of the Bible and Jesus Christ.
The Unification Church has been deceiving the public and the Christian community trying to make people think that they are a Bible believing Christian organization.
It is the fulfillment of Judaism and Christianity; it is the final church of God, it is the final teaching group.
http://www.newcovpub.com/examples.html   (3320 words)

  
 Unification Church- Marriages by Moon
“Church officials say the money goes for satellite charges and the costs for 200,000 African couples, but a number of Protestant churches in Korea said that the ceremonies, which have brought the church $1.3 billion throughout the years, are just a way for the church to make money.
The Unification Church is one of the most bizarre mind control cults in all history.
But this is not new teaching but standard Unification Church theology.
http://www.letusreason.org/Moon.htm   (3847 words)

  
 Unification Church (Moonies) - Christian or Cult?
"Unification theology asserts that God has both masculine and feminine qualities based on the universal fact of polarity..." There are similarities between the Unification Church theology of God the Father and the deity concept of I Ching, Confucianism, Taoism, and even the Hindu worship of a Mother Goddess: "...
Born in Korea in 1920, Moon claims that in 1936, when he was 16, Jesus Christ appeared to him on Easter morning on a mountainside in Northwestern Korea and told him that God had chosen him for the mission of establishing the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, a mission that Christ had only begun.
"In Unification theology the main point is that the Holy Spirit is not a separate entity, a being different from God the Father.
http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Cults/unificat.htm   (3014 words)

  
 Unification Church: Moon Tries to Connect With Black Pastors - News about religious cults and sects
The Korean-born founder of the Unification Church has been a controversial figure because of his followers' belief that he is the messiah, and also because of his financial activities and his church's recruitment techniques.
Theologically his Unification Church is, at best, a cult of Christianity.
Mitchell Ford, pastor of Renaissance Baptist Church in Southeast Washington.
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/news1/an010421-14.html   (863 words)

  
 tips on finding a good church
Before you start the church search, be sure to ask God to guide you in the search.
Granted, there are no perfect churches, but hopefully you will find a good church that will best encourage you in your living for Christ.
What to look for in a church: There are many different kinds of churches.
http://www.porn-free.org/church.htm   (689 words)

  
 WashingtonPost.com: The Cult Controversy
Mose Durst, president of the Unification Church, said the church raises "more than $20 million" in the United States annually and that such activities are considered an important part of church life.
Although many participants make a point of saying they do not endorse the theology of the Unification Church, critics note that the church has in the past used photographs and films of the scholars, frequently shaking hands with or standing side-by-side with Moon, in promotional literature.
The Unification Church stays so far in the background you don't even know they're there," he said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/unification/image.htm   (2639 words)

  
 A Rose By Any Other Name
They were willing then to say they represented the Unification Church, but as time progressed and the stories of brainwashing members increased, they became less and less willing to identify themselves.
In 1976, The New York Times said the theology of the Unification Church is, "a mind-boggling mixture of Pentecostal Christianity, Eastern Mysticism, anti- Communism, pop psychology, and metaphysics." This is still true even today.
The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, is the official title.
http://www.christianlink.com/proclaim/radio/rosename.html   (283 words)

  
 the  Unification Church
And the only way I can explain it in my theology is the Holy Spirit [and that] Jesus Christ has really diversified His investment portfolio." (click here to read a collection of articles on this luncheon).
As we have said, Moon's avowed aim is to bring a "restoration" of the divided worlds of man's religion, politics and science and he has expended untold billions of dollars to that end for the past 50 years or so.
Indeed, Schuller holds that Moon's presence and sponsorship at a January, 2001 pre-inaugural interfaith prayer luncheon was part of a great spiritual move of God in that despite diversity, "there is an overriding unity.
http://www.spiritwatch.org/unchurch.htm   (1044 words)

  
 Marc Perkel Rantz: What is it like to be brainwashed?
We can just brush aside for now that there are multiple branches of theological thought even within the Unification church and stick to your concern: you may lay your doubts aside, I have heard some of the theology and I am negative towards the religion after having done so.
If Marc has heard half of what is said about the Unification Church and Theology, then he probably knows more about that church and its theology than "many" of the people who actually attend it.
His efforts at reaching people with what he believes to be the truth are no more than the efforts made by the Unification church.
http://marc.perkel.com/archives/000384.html   (2654 words)

  
 Unification Church
The Unification Church - The holy spirit association for the unification of world Christianity (official church site).
http://www.reasoned.org/dir/moonie.htm   (17 words)

  
 Dictionary UN
Union of Slavic Churches of Evangelical Christians and Slavic Baptists of Canada
http://www.dictionarydefinition.net/UN.html   (33 words)

  
 Whole purpose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In this system of thought, God wants human beings to pursue the self purpose while placing priority on the whole purpose.
In the theology of the Unification Church, whole purpose and self purpose are two key concepts in human ethics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_purpose   (296 words)

  
 Online Store
Translated from the original Korean, this is the basic text explaining the theology of the Unification Church
Collected by subject on the topics: Hope, Entreaty, Resurrection, Heart, Faith, Filial Piety, Loyalty, Determination, Devotion, Restoration, Victory, and Unification
Sun Myung Moon, A lifetime of conversation with our Heavenly Father.
http://holyspiritassociation.org   (164 words)

  
 The Moonies - the Unification Church, CARM
On May 1, 1954, in Seoul, Moon founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity.
The Holy Spirit is ‘the True Mother,’ or ‘the Second Eve." The church denies the doctrine of the Trinity.
Through his political social outreaches he has deceived a great many people into believing his self-exalting and self-serving theology.
http://www.carm.org/list/moonies.htm   (482 words)

  
 Oganizations of the Unification Church
American Leadership Conference, Chinese Evangelical Assn., NYC Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace American Conference on Religious Movements -A funded cult apologist organization of the Unification Church; Assembly of Worlds Religions International Christian Students Association.
Religious Organizations- The Holy Spirit Association for Unification of World Christianity.
Pyonghwa Motors has invested $10 million and plans to invest up to $300 million dollars into the project.
http://www.letusreason.org/moon1.htm   (560 words)

  
 The Center for Apologetics Research · Unification Church (Sun Myung Moon)
The Center for Apologetics Research · Unification Church (Sun Myung Moon)
Bruce PettitUnification Theology And The Cross of Christ
http://www.apolresearch.org/eng/moon_eng.php3   (180 words)

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