The Unification Church (Family Federation)

Movement·Founded 1954 CE·Disputed. The church has claimed around three million members worldwide; independent estimates are far lower and concentrate the membership in Korea and Japan.

Judaism → Christianity → The Unification Church (Family Federation)

Branch
Core tenet of The Unification Church (Family Federation)

The cross was a second-best outcome.

The Divine Principle holds that Jesus came to marry and found a sinless lineage, was rejected, and took the crucifixion as the remaining route — a reading no other Christian body accepts.

Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held

This is the doctrine that separates the movement from every other body that calls itself Christian, and members know it. The Divine Principle holds that Jesus came to marry, to found a lineage without original sin, and to establish the kingdom in his own lifetime; that John the Baptist failed to prepare the way; and that the crucifixion was therefore a substitute course, achieving spiritual salvation but not physical. It follows that the work is unfinished and that someone must finish it. Every Christian body that has examined the claim has rejected it, and the movement is used to being told so. Members generally answer that they read the same Bible and reach a different conclusion about what the rejection of Jesus cost.

From the sources — the passages this rests on; concise renderings, cited

Jesus came to establish a sinless family and was prevented; the crucifixion secured spiritual salvation only.

Divine Principle, part I, on the mission of Jesus (rendered)

No other Christian body accepts this reading, and the movement is aware of that.

The same ground, other faiths

claims that share this one's ideas
D David — king and penitent. Judaism · figure Meet them →
M Maitreya — the one to come. Buddhism · figure Meet them →
In Jesus, God became human. Christianity Go deeper →
T The Panj Piare — five heads, five castes. Sikhism · figure Meet them →
Continuity is the argument. Orthodox Judaism Go deeper →

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