Because the world of our original hometown is the original world where God lives, where the lord of heaven and earth lives, what is the place for training one to live according to the laws of the original hometown? We should know that it is religion. It is not God's will to live for one's own denomination as do ecclesiastical authorities today. The denominations should go beyond their own denomination and live for God and for humankind. One should not fight for one's church nor live for one's church; one should fight against Satan and be a denomination which works for humankind. You should know this. Therefore the religions of today are training people to be in line with the laws which will allow them to return to the world of the original hometown. So from the beginning of history, the many religions which have been following God's Will denied themselves: "Sacrifice and serve others!" Until now we have not known why that was. We didn't know why we had to sacrifice and serve. It is because the original hometown is the original world where we live for others. In order to go to that world we must have the preparation and training to get there. Accordingly, through the fact that the higher a religion is the more it emphasizes sacrifice and service, we can recognize the historical fact that God carried out his providence through a historical course in historical periods. Through this we can recognize that God exists. (77-270) Then spirit world where God can dwell, what kind of system does it have? That system's order is very simple. The people who can go to heaven, who can go to paradise, are not people who have lived for themselves. That kind of people cannot go there. Heaven is the place that people who were born for the whole and who live for the whole go. I don't know whether you have ever experienced the spiritual world, but by the grace of heaven I experienced the rich spiritual world. If you go into that world, there is not a single person who lives for himself. Those who lived for God and those who lived for humankind, they all have gone to that world. Because God established an ideal beginning, an ideal principle, it is for sure that the land of the original hometown which is the origin is the world realized by these laws. Therefore, those laws of the original hometown must be taught to the multitudes of humankind who hope to find and go to that world. Here on earth, where is the stage for training in and teaching about these laws? It is religion. Religion is what trains our personalities here on earth while we are still alive to adjust to the laws of the original hometown so that when we go there we will know the laws. We should know that this is the duty of today's religious life. The higher the religion, the less one stresses oneself. The higher the religion, the more it stresses meekness and humility. Furthermore, it stresses sacrifice and service. Why must it do that? Because those are the laws of the original hometown. At any rate, humankind is like a wanderer searching for the land of its original hometown. Since religion must train people in the laws which will allow them to live there, the higher the religion, the more it has taught people to sacrifice. When we see that the religions of history have had this mission over and over again, we cannot deny that God has worked his providence through religions in the course of history. (77-189)
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