Claim. True Parents’ core mission is to rectify the tainted lineage that forms the root of the satanic world, turn the deviated life around, and correctly reopen the path of love that had gone wrong.
Elaboration. SMM’s terse formulation: ‘Who are the True Parents? Since false parents appeared, True Parents must appear. What do True Parents have to do? They must rectify the tainted lineage that forms the root of the satanic world, turn the resulting deviated life around, and correctly reopen the path of love that has gone the wrong way’ (6.3. The words True Parents are amazing words).
Three mission components: (1) lineage rectification — the core innovation, accomplished through the blessing sacrament which engrafts believers onto the new root; (2) life reorientation — the daily/ethical dimension, recovering the original path from which fallen humanity deviated; (3) reopening love — the relational dimension, restoring the God-human-spouse love triangle ruptured at the fall.
Elsewhere in the section SMM amplifies: ‘Through True Parents, the original lineage and original character will begin. Through True Parents, language will return to its original point. Through True Parents, our daily life will return to its original form. Through True Parents, the original nation will be established and the original world will be realized’ (5.2. The definition of True Parents). The scope is total — there is no domain of human existence that True Parents do not restore.
The theological move is to relocate salvation from forensic (forgiveness of sins, justification) to ontological (changing lineage at the root). This is the deepest point of contrast with Protestant evangelicalism, which insists salvation is by faith and that lineage/genealogy plays no salvific role (Galatians 3:28). SMM’s reply is that the cross dealt with spiritual sin but left the lineage problem untouched — a problem that requires the messiah to come as True Parent. Worth a thread once a counter-atomic from evangelical critique exists. Critics will press on whether ‘tainted lineage’ is biblical or imported from Korean ancestral cosmology.