Claim. No figure in human history — not even Paul — has achieved the unity of warring mind and body, so no saint has ever been able to say ‘follow my example’ as the representative of unified humanity.
Elaboration. SMM poses the question: ‘Has there been a saint in our history who said, Follow my example because, as a representative of all people in history, my mind and body have ceased to fight and have achieved complete unity?’ The answer is no (5.3. True Parents are the embodiment of good character).
The exegetical anchor is Romans 7: SMM cites Paul’s lament — ‘but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?’ (Romans 7:23-24). ‘He saw things correctly. We are liberated through God’s love that is in Jesus Christ our Lord’ (5.3. True Parents are the embodiment of good character).
But SMM goes further than Paul: liberation ‘through Jesus Christ our Lord’ was the initiation, not the completion. Paul himself remained in the mind-body war. The completion required the appearance of True Parents who actually achieve mind-body unity rather than merely longing for it.
The move is significant because mind-body conflict is treated as a symptom of the fall — not a metaphysical condition of embodiment as such (against gnostic and some Platonic readings), and not a permanent feature of fallen humanity awaiting only eschatological resolution (against typical Protestant readings of Romans 7). For SMM, the conflict is in principle resolvable within history through achieving the True Parent position.
The priority claim: ‘Both mind and body are important, but what is even more important is the unity of my body and mind. This is very important. If you have not achieved this, even though the world may be unified, you will have nothing to do with the world’ (5.3. True Parents are the embodiment of good character). Internal unification is structurally prior to external/social unification.
Critics from classical Augustinian/Reformed traditions will hold that Romans 7 describes the permanent condition of the believer this side of glory and that SMM’s claim to mind-body unity is presumptuous. The disagreement is theologically deep and depends on whether perfection-in-this-life is possible — a Wesleyan-style holiness question with a long pedigree.