View source for Talk:Sun Myung Moon

==Age==
*Western age: {{age|1920|2|25}}
*Korean age: {{Korean age|1920}}

==Interpretations==
Detractors sometimes say he "thinks he is God", but that is in contradiction to his teachings and public statements. This could stem from a superficial interpretation of [[Unification Theology]].

Mainstream Christianity's view of the [[Trinity]] asserts that Jesus is God. Coupled with the mainstream view that Jesus is the Messiah, one could conclude that the Messiah is God.
#Jesus is God
#Jesus is the Messiah
#Thus, the Messiah is God

Rev. Moon's followers believe that he is the Messiah. Ignoring the Unificationist concept of the Trinity, one might reason as follows:
#Rev. Moon is held to be the Messiah
#The Messiah is God
#Thus, Rev. Moon is held to be God

However, the Unificationist view of the Trinity - while not strictly denying that Jesus is God - maintains that Jesus is a human being (not the Creator Himself). This can be a little confusing, but I'm just dashing this off from memory, rather than carefully writing an article; bear with me, please?

Unificationists believe that Rev. Moon is a human being - not God - not a member of the Trinity. 
#No human being is God, the Creator (because God creates each human being)
#The Messiah is a human being.
#Rev. Moon is the Messiah.
#Therefore, Rev. Moon is a human being and not God.

This is not a very interesting point of theology, unless (A) you are a Unificationist or (B) you have some curiosity about the differences between Unification Theology and what mainstream Christians believe. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 09:43, 17 April 2008 (EDT)

==Sources==

I have been a member the Unification Church my entire adult life and am the Internet's leading authority on it. I have access to the same public information as everyone else, of course, as well as inside information.

The quotations I deleted are unreliable. 

If you want to start a debate, we have [[Debate Topics]] for that.

If you want to post a balance of pro and con views, there is a way to do that. But it didn't seem like that was the aim today. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 11:09, 30 April 2008 (EDT)

==Accident==

I wanted to add mention of Rev. Moon's [http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/19/moon.crash.ap/index.html helicopter accident today] (invalid URL), but the article is locked.   [[User:RobCross|RobCross]] 15:33, 19 July 2008 (EDT)

==Unlock==
Please unlock so i can add to article.--[[User:Pakhyongshin|Pakhyongshin]] 23:31, 7 August 2008 (EDT)

==Fiat Doblos==
Interesting tidbit on Moon I found on Fox. [http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/leisure/auto/2009/10/28/car-clicks?slide=12] --[[User:Jpatt|Jpatt]] 23:34, 21 January 2010 (EST)
:I think you meant slide 13, and Rev. Moon doesn't own any part of the car company. The church - not its founder - is the owner of all "church-related businesses".

:And Rev. Moon doesn't even control a lot of those businesses, because they have independent [[board of directors|boards of directors]]. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 16:57, 22 January 2010 (EST)