Sun Myung Moon Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Marriage to Hak Ja Han=== Moon married his second wife, [[Hak Ja Han]] (who was 17 at the time) on 11 April 1960, soon after Moon turned 40 years old, in a ceremony called the Holy Marriage. Han is called "Mother" or "True Mother". She and Moon together are referred to as the "True Parents" by members of the Unification Church and their family as the "True Family".<ref name="Chryssides2003"/><ref>[http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/sunmyungmoon98/SM980914-NewYorker.htm Moon At Twilight: Amid scandal, the Unification Church has a strange new mission], [[Peter Maass]] ''[[New Yorker Magazine]]'', 14 September 1998. "Moon sees the essence of his own mission as completing the one given to Jesus β establishing a 'true family' untouched by Satan while teaching all people to lead a God-centered life under his spiritual leadership."</ref><ref>{{cite news| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/12/nyregion/sharpton-in-ceremonies-of-unification-church.html| title = "Sharpton in Ceremonies Of Unification Church," by David Firestone, ''The New York Times'', Friday, 12 September 1997.| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| date = 12 September 1997| last1 = Firestone| first1 = David}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/686677772.html?dids=686677772:686677772&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jan+29%2C+1976&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=%27NEW+MESSIAH%27&pqatl=google| title = "Messiah" by John Dart, ''Los Angeles Times'', 29 Jan 1976; B1.| access-date = 7 July 2017| archive-date = 25 July 2012| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120725022843/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/686677772.html?dids=686677772:686677772&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jan+29%2C+1976&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=%27NEW+MESSIAH%27&pqatl=google| url-status = dead}}</ref> Jesus was divine but not [[God]]; he was supposed to be the second Adam who would create a perfect family by joining with the ideal wife and creating a pure family that would have begun humanity's liberation from its sinful condition.<ref name=Businessweek /> When Jesus was crucified before marrying, he redeemed mankind spiritually but not physically. That task was left to the "True Parents" β Moon and Han β who would link married couples and their families to God.<ref name=NPRExpose /><ref name=Businessweek /><ref name=AUTOBIOGRAPHY /> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page