Claim. The term ‘True Parents’ carries with it all heavenly and earthly blessings and functions as a certificate guaranteeing eternal life and recognition before both God and Satan.
Elaboration. SMM gives the name itself a quasi-juridical weight: ‘The term “true parents” brings with it all the blessings in heaven and earth and a certificate that guarantees eternal life. The name itself is a form of certification before God and Satan. You should know that. Once you attain this, your ancestors will all bow to you, even if you do not realize why they are doing it. On the day you receive it, your third-generation ancestors will come and bow down’ (Section 5. True Parents and Eternal Life In order to meet your spouse and receive the children you can love, you must follow the Parents. When you have received your children, you should be able to say, “Oh, I am following the path through which I can command an entire heavenly nation.” How splendid this is! It is the same in the earthly world. You are walking the path in order to receive the unified tribe, unified world and unified heaven together with your family. Why then do you have to follow True Parents? You follow them in order to inherit this entire universe. How wonderful this is! God and True Parents embrace every- thing. This is the Way of the True Par- ent, and what a tremendous ideology it is. Those Unification Church members who are determined to be loyal to God’s will consider the Unification Church as their own, whether they are in Korea, in).
The inheritance frame: by attaining oneness with True Parents, the believer ‘inherits the entire universe.’ Ancestors — even three generations back — recognize and bow to descendants who have received this name/certification, reversing the normal hierarchy of filial deference. This is consistent with the broader UC claim that blessing-bearing descendants spiritually elevate their forebears.
The affective discipline that secures the certification: ‘live your daily life with a heart that longs for your True Parents until you die. You should live a life in which you can shed tears for your True Parents before you leave this world. Only then will you enter the Kingdom of Heaven after you pass away.’ The standard is not merely intellectual assent but a sustained longing-heart (sangdo / jeongseong) producing tears.
The ownership claim in the same section — ‘there should be no objection to my assertion that I am the clear owner of our Unification Church… I have invested and served more than anyone else. Also, I am the teacher. No one can replace me’ — situates this certification as inseparable from SMM’s personal investment. Critics (sociology, ex-member, evangelical-critique) typically engage on the sacramental-name function, which strikes traditional Christians as displacing the name of Jesus (Acts 4:12). Worth a thread once a counter atomic exists.
See also. jesus-in-paradise-not-kingdom-because-not-true-parent