ginal sin. Since Jesus was executed before accomplishing his mission, it is now up to Moon to complete the work.When God created Adam and Eve, he intended for them to be married in Eden. Before marriage however, Eve had an affair with Satan and ultimately caused the spiritual downfall of mankind. Later, she again sinned by engaging in a pre-marital sexual relationship with Adam; and consequently, they formed an imperfect family; meaning that any children conceived by Eve, could not born without original sin. These two sins combined resulted in giving Satan control of the world. According to the group, Jesus was sent to rectify the problem and was executed and resurrected not physically, but spiritually, making it possible for people who believe in him to receive spiritual salvation. Complete salvation (spiritual and physical) cannot be obtained until the second messiah has formed a perfect marriage. This is the reason Sun Myung Moon is the central figure of the church. He makes complete salvation possible by creating a perfect marriage.Rev. Moons marriage to his current (second) wife has supposedly completed the perfect marriage since their children were born without original sin. Mr. and Mrs. Moon are idolized by the followers, and are referred to as the True Parents. In order to now enable other people to give birth to children free of fallen nature, Moon matches each member of the church to a spouse in the most important Unification ritual. Before the marriage, the couple must drink a special concentration of Rev. Sun Myung Moons blood in a wine ceremony. It is claimed that there have been hundreds of thousands of people married in this way. The Unificationists claim that discrepancies in their beliefs (when compared to Christian beliefs) are significant but are infrequent. The members however, do not refer to the Bible. The religious text belonging to the group is the Divine Principle, written by Moon. They also do no...
