Today the Unification Church is charged with the responsibility to make progress towards the realm of the hope of history by linking Christianity into a new world level. Therefore, the ideology of the Unification Church must unite world Christianity into one. This can be concluded. Do you understand? Why are the words "Unification of World Christianity" used? One person that I know well said to me, "Rev. Moon, why did you use the words 'World Christianity' and open yourself up to such opposition? Why don't you just take those words out?"

Who would oppose taking out the words "World Christianity"? Because we put the words "World Christianity" in the very forefront, Christian ministers and elders are saying, "'Unite world Christianity'? Maybe, if Rev. Moon had the foundation of several nations of the world or a foundation like the Roman Emperor, but a useless fellow like him is going to unite world Christianity?" When they think about that, if they think about it in the morning, it upsets them; if they think about it at lunch time, it upsets them; if they think about it in the evening, it upsets them; if they think about it while sleeping, it upsets them; and if they dream about it, it upsets them. Then they ask, "Why unite Christianity?

"Throughout the historical periods until now, for thousands of years the Christians have fought and have divided into three or four hundred denominations. With what can they be united? With guns and swords? Haven't you learned anything? With what are you going to unite them? By guns, by violence, by dictatorial skills?" By standing in such a position and asking what and how, they spread various kinds of strange rumors. Actually, what the unification of world Christianity means is being unified by the Holy Spirit. This is the Holy Spirit Association. Do you understand? It is not bringing unification by the fist; it is not bringing unification by guns or swords. Through what will we unify? It is the Holy Spirit.

Then what is the Holy Spirit? If you mispronounce Holy Spirit (Shilyong) a bit, it sounds like ability (shilyok). But it's not ability, it's the Holy Spirit. So by what will we bring unification? It cannot be done by man's strength on earth alone. It is possible only if the spirit world moves. But it is more difficult to get the spirit world to move than the world of the earth.

To get humankind on earth to move, there must be some content which can inspire them to move. Then to get spirit world to move there must also be some content which inspires them to move. What is that content? It is the unification of Christianity. It is simple. To unify Christianity, all the content of Christianity which could not be unified should be removed, and all the content which can be unified should be left. Then unification will come. It's easy to say that, isn't it? If all the things which cannot unite are removed and all the things which can unite are left, then unification is bound to come.

Because of that, we can conclude that a new view must come into existence, a new system of truth which the whole Christian world does not have, a systematization of the Bible which can connect the truth from the Old Testament through the New Testament and into the future. That view must be the view which God and the spirit world have. If you want to receive the help of the spirit world, God must come forth and say He will help. If God is the Lord of the spirit world and the Lord is saying, "Hmmmm," no matter how much the lesser beings say they will help, nothing can be done.

If the Lord God is excited and says, "Yes, that's right! My time has come!" when He feels that good about something, all the lesser beings in the spirit world can follow and unite. If God is opposed, the spirit world cannot help. When in the center of His heart God appraises the essence of the Old and New Testaments, He needs to feel something that would make Him say, "Oh, that guy is right. That Unification Church is all right." Then it is for sure that the content which can move the spirit world must be something centered on God, and next it must be something which the numerous saints and religious leaders who have come to and left this earth long for and desire for it to be so.

For Buddha that content is such and such which he advocated and is found in the Buddhist Holy Scriptures, and whether it is Confucius of Confucianism, or Jesus, any of them, if we say, "Your teaching was such and such, but shouldn't this lacking point here be this way?" then all of them must say, "Yes." It must pass through the test of their saying "It is so. It is so." Does that seem right?

So what can be a problem here, centered on the religion of the son which can represent the wills of all the religions through the Old and New Testaments... That religion of the son has passed through the religion of servants and the religion of adopted sons. At the same time that they can be connected, through the religion of the son and through the realm of the religion of the parents up to the realms of spirit and God, we want to officially recognize one form of one system. When that happens could not world Christianity be automatically unified. [Yes, it could!] When we look at it like that, world Christianity can be unified. Since we say it can be done, if we add a little more confidence to it, it will be done. Based on this content, we made our name The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity. You should know that. If we say, "The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification" and "World Christianity," then we have "The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity." It is a Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of Christianity. That's how we see it. Some people think of it as a "Unification Association," but if we remove the World Christianity and call it a Unification Association, what good is it? But it's not that Unification Association. It's the Unification of World Christianity. What kind of association for unity? It's the Holy Spirit Association. (113-96)