God Created with Love

1. What is the foundation of God's existence? Is it His omniscience? Is it His omnipotence, or His absolute authority? If He were alone, what would be the point of absolute authority? The important question is, what is God's essence? It is love. It is not love that seeks to be served, but love that seeks to serve.
(218-264, 1991.08.19)

2. As an omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent being, there is nothing God wants to keep for Himself. He lacks nothing and has everything, but if there were one thing He valued most and took the most pride in, what would it be? It would be love. God does not need anything except love. Love is the only thing He requires. (108-225, 1980.10.16)

What God needs absolutely

What is it that God likes the most? What do human beings like the most? The answer is true love. No one can dispute that.

It is written in the Bible: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that everyone who believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16)

So what does God like the most? It is love. God's wish was and is to bind together all humanity as brothers and sisters and have them become sons and daughters of filial piety, who are fully devoted to Him.

That is why in the Bible, the first commandment that we as human beings should follow is "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind." (Matt. 22:37)

Again, what does God like the most? It is not money, knowledge,e or power. It is love. The first commandment is to love God with all your heart soul and mind, and with all your strength. The second commandment is to love your neighbor as yourself. (143-065, 1986.03.15)

4. Even God the Creator, who is the Lord and Ruler of all things in heaven and on earth, absolutely needs love. He requires true love, and when He has it, He will not give it up for the whole universe. But where can He find this love?

God cannot find it in Himself. Even if He possesses it in His heart, as long as He is a solitary being He cannot find it. Then, where does love come from? It does not come from oneself but from one's partner.

If we have no partner we cannot find love. To find love, we need to live for the sake of our partner. Without living for the sake of others there is no way to find the path of love. (141-251, 1986.02.26)

5. To find the greatest joy, what does God need to do? He does not want money, knowledge, or power. He never lacks these because He is omnipotent and has the power of creation. Nonetheless, even He needs one thing, but one thing only.

That is love. He requires love, but He cannot have love by Himself. To have love, He requires a partner. On this basis, we can conclude that God created the universe because of love. (229-269, 1992.04.13)

The reason God created the world

6. Why did God create? Even God requires love; that is why He created. God created the heavens and the earth because of love. He required partners of love, so He created to have partners of love.

That is also why He does not demand that others serve Him absolutely, and why He does not seek love for His own sake. God wants His partners to surpass Him. If He has one thousand percent, He fully invests that one thousand percent in His partners. Love's original nature and quality is to want one's partner to exceed oneself. (201-115, 1990.03.27)

7. God created human beings because He needed others to love as His object partners. You cannot love yourself. Love cannot come into existence without the realm of the object partner. Even God needs love.

That is the reason He created all things of creation and then created human beings as their lords who represent them. Because God needs human beings, He attributed to them the value of His object partners with the absolute rights of love.

He created human beings as His object partners to share love with them. Hence, human beings are the very bodies of God. (138-212, 1986.01.21)

8. Why did God create Adam and Eve? God is an incorporeal being, so unless He becomes the Parent in substantial form, He cannot directly love His children.

Hence, He created them so He could have a form. Thus, the incorporeal God's purpose in creating Adam and Eve was, first, to assume a form.

Second, by assuming a form, He could experience jolts and vibrations. For instance, lyrics alone are not sufficient to make music. Along with lyrics, there should be melody and there should also be rhythm.

God wanted to enjoy the stimulation of such sensations. Third, since God is the vertical Father on the central axis, He occupies no space. If God looks at Himself, He sees that He occupies just one point, on an axis.

He needs space for multiplication. So, why does He require a body? It is because for reproduction to occur He needs space; He needs to see extension in all directions, through 360 degrees. (232-210, 1992.07.06)

9. God exists as the origin of true love. But to experience love, even God needs a partner. Love is an experience and a joy that is possible only through the relationship between the subject partner and object partner, that is, through a partnership. No one can ever feel love by himself or herself in isolation.

God's motive for creating was to realize true love through object partners of true love. God created human beings as object partners who can have love relationships freely with Him.

He created us as His partners for total love. Hence, we human beings are God's sons and daughters, and God, the Creator, is our True Parent. God hoped that Adam and Eve would remain pure and grow up to become true individuals based on true love. (279-205, 1996.08.20)

10. God is the Absolute Being. Then, what did He lack that led Him to create human beings? He is the all-knowing, almighty God. He does not lack for gold or knowledge; in fact, there is nothing that He does not possess.

Nevertheless, He created human beings, and for what? What was His fundamental motivation for creating them? God had power, knowledge,e, and money, but He did not have a partner for love.

Even God cannot realize love alone. Thus, the fundamental motivation behind the creation of the heavens and the earth was love. (149-150, 1986.11.21)

11. Why did God create heaven and earth? What did the almighty Absolute Being lack, such that He needed to create human beings? He created them because of love. Love cannot arise without a partner.

Love activated without a partner only suffers loss. Everything is made to protect itself; nothing moves if all that can be expected is loss. Nevertheless, once a partner of love appears, a previously hidden love springs forth.

Love is the primary essence of God. Nonetheless, if God, who is in a masculine position, is alone, His love cannot manifest. Human beings are the partners who enable God to manifest His love. (60-076, 1972.08.06)

12. God created human beings to realize love. However, God cannot realize love by Himself; He can do it only with partners. Without a partner, love is not to be found. Therefore, for God to attain the most precious thing, He needs a partner.

Accordingly, God seeks partners to realize absolute love through them. Therefore, we can say that God exists for love. That is the reason love is so wonderful. God exists for human beings and human beings exist for God.

That is why true love begins from the point where one lives for the sake of others. (143-310, 1986.03.21)

13. From what were human beings born? We began from God's love; we were born because of love. Love is the origin. Human beings inherit life, but life is not precious in and of itself. We treasure life because it arose from God's ideal of love.

Therefore, love precedes life. That is, our life has its roots in love. That is why we are meant to be born in love, grow up in love,e and find our love partner.
(143-310, 1986.03.21)

Creation for joy and love

14. God is an absolute and unique being. But no matter how high He is, as long as He is alone, He can have no joy and no fun. Living alone can never be joyful or fun.

Consider, for example, a legal scholar without parallel in the entire world, or a man who possesses the power and authority to control the world with his every word. Even in such positions, people are not happy if they are by themselves. They have nothing to feel joyful about. (039-224, 1971.01.15)

15. Why did God create heaven and earth? “I want a man like me and a woman like me, with substantial forms, so I can watch them running about. It is fun to watch them, and that is why I created them.” Do you like Him saying this? Or, “Watching the two run about is good, but more than that, I want to see them embrace each other and frolic together.”

Which one do you prefer? After all is said and done, God wanted to see men and women loving each other. Do you think that God would rather see men and women competing against each other or loving each other?

He would like to see them love each other. From the beginning, love was the original motivation behind the creation of the universe. Therefore, it is perfectly logical to conclude that God will show Himself to this created world as the original being of love. (086-082, 1976.03.07)

16. God is absolute and unique in Himself, so why did He create the universe? Even though He is the being of absolute love, life, and ideal, He cannot fulfill any of these by Himself. No matter how great, God cannot realize His love and ideals by Himself.

Hence, He created the universe to realize that love and ideal. Again, why did God create human beings? It was to experience joy and happiness. He cannot experience joy and happiness on His own. If He were alone, He would not find joy or happiness in anything. He created so that He could have a relationship with His object partners. (070-069, 1974.02.08)

17. Why did God create heaven and earth? Why did He create Adam and Eve? It was to experience joy. It was for Him to be happy.

He wanted to enter into Adam and become the incorporeal Father, and to make Adam the corporeal Father. Therefore, Adam had to become God in a substantial form. It was the same for Eve.

Why does God need a substantial form? God needs it because, without a form, He cannot directly govern the substantial world that He created. That is why, as God, He needs to assume a substantial, form. Thus, God created Adam and Eve to become His substantial forms. So Adam and Eve must become one in body with God. (19-159, 1968.01.01)

18. Just because the things of creation were made by the Absolute Being, they are not automatically endowed with absolute value. They only attain that by becoming God's inseparable partners. As human beings, we must recover the absolute position of His partners by centering on the Absolute Being.

The fact that the one and only Absolute Being created us human beings as His partners means that our position too should be absolute. The Absolute Being cannot experience joy alone. This is because joy cannot be realized on one's own. (038-152, 1971.01.03)

19. To create human beings, God first created all other things along the way. From the first day through the fifth day of creation, when God looked at all the things He had created, He felt boundless excitement, hope, and immeasurable joy. Then He created Adam and Eve, our first ancestors, as the lords of all creation.

He blessed them with a heart of infinite joy, saying, "Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth" (Gen. 1:28)

These words of blessing, to be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, mean that God created human beings for joy. Furthermore, God blessed human beings to fulfill this purpose. (5-090, 1959.01.03)