God does not need several religions. God does not wish for Buddhism to exist; He does not wish for Islam to exist; He does not wish for Confucianism to exist; He does not wish for Christianity to exist. If there are religions, God wishes they would become one together on the basis of God's Will, work for the liberation of the world, abolish evil from the earth, and go forth together centered on God's purpose while realizing the world of goodness. God does not want religions which forget about the world and fight from a sectarian position. In the same way that higher-level cultures absorbed lower-level cultures, higher-level religions absorb lower-level religions. That does not happen through force; it must happen naturally. It is inevitable because of the development towards a good world. If we look at God's Will from that perspective, when we look at things while centered on God, when we think that God surely established religions in this world to carry out the providence for salvation, we see that those religions definitely have a global nature. We must have one religion. The doctrine of that religion must include content for realizing the world of oneness. Becoming the world of oneness is not becoming a world of oneness without a relationship with God. There must be the content of a religious doctrine which places God as the subject and brings heaven and earth into a complete oneness. Moreover, it must not fight with the ideologies and thought systems; it must have the subjective power to automatically absorb them. Further, it does not become one with the people on its side, or only its own people, or its own cultural background; it must have the ability to absorb and digest all different, even opposite, content. Without that, it is impossible. Then, one does not become one only with the people one likes. It must not seek to become one only with one's own side excluding one's enemies; it must be a religious content for becoming one without excluding one's enemies. God wants that kind of religion, and Jesus must have come with that kind of religious goal. (93-200)
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