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1. In the Bible, Genesis 1:27 states, “God created humankind in His image; in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them” Therefore, we can deduce that male and female exist within God.
God is the one subject partner who manifests these two beings as one. Adam and Eve are the ones who were to resemble His dual characteristics.
(054-091, 1972.03.20)
God is a harmonious being with dual characteristics
2. God exists as the subject partner with dual characteristics. He manifested His internal masculinity to become substantially visible through Adam as His counterpart, and He manifested His internal femininity substantially through Eve.
In other words, human beings represent the investment and substantial embodiment of all that is within God's internal nature.
(143-081, 1986.03.16)
3. The Unification Principle defines God as the incorporeal, absolute subject partner, the subject partner with dual characteristics in harmony. As a being with dual characteristics, God created Adam and Eve as His substantial second selves to reflect His characteristics individually.
He intended to become the center in the vertical position when they fully matured and became one flesh with each other horizontally through love. What this means is that when Adam and Eve reached full maturity, God's masculinity was to reside in Adam's heart and mind, and His femininity in Eve's heart and mind.
This, however, does not mean that God is divided. He is the subject partner of these dual characteristics. He can dwell in the hearts and minds of both Adam and Eve. (138-247, 1986.01.24)
4. From where do the subject partner and object partner arise? There must be a base for their existence. In the Unification Church, we call this base the “dual characteristics.”
Human beings themselves do not create the subject and object partners. Energy is always in motion. Yet in order for energy to be in motion, there must be a circuit through which it can flow. Energy cannot continue without a circuit of giving and receiving. For instance, the heart operates within the circulatory system, made up of veins and arteries.
All action requires a reciprocal relationship between a subject partner and an object partner. Before energy can exist, there must be a subject partner and an object partner. All subject and object partners must have a base for their existence. (033-036, 1970.08.02)
5. When we look at the cosmos, we see that all beings exist to participate in relationships of love. In the mineral world, there are plus and minus; in the plant world there are stamen and pistils; in the animal world there are male and female; in the human world there are man and woman, and there are heaven and earth.
All of this is because God is a being of dual characteristics, who exists as the harmonious unity of plus and minus within Himself. When God relates to His creation, this harmonious being of dual characteristics takes the masculine position. (400-065, 2002.12.27)
6. Adam and Eve are the fruit, the visible substantial image, of God's internal nature. When they form a union, it becomes the base on which God's internal character and external form are united in substance for the first time. This is where the realm of the heart begins.
Based on this family realm of heart, the realm of heart opens and expands to the tribal level. Hence, Adam and Eve were to become the representatives of the individual realm of the heart, the family realm of the heart, and the national realm of the heart. The model for all these roles was to have been established in Adam's generation. (316-248, 2000.02.15)
7. Why did God create human beings? To answer this, we need to answer the fundamental question of why we were born. God is the subject partner of love. The Divine Principle refers to Him as a harmonious being of dual characteristics, but it does not explain that He is a unified being of love. It should be added that He is a unified being of love. (223-268, 1991.11.12)
8. The Unification Principle sets forth that God exists as our subject partner, with dual characteristics in harmony. We base this on undeniable facts drawn from scientific analysis. When subject and object partners are united, God's power will be with them eternally.
A place where the subject partner and object partner do not exist is void of power. Then how does God exist? He exists forever by the power that is generated by the giving and receiving between the subject partner and object partner positions within Himself. This is how we can explain God's existence logically.
(039-168, 1971.01.10)
9. Consider God's dual characteristics. All the ideal elements of His first characteristic, everything that God imagined and planned, are substantiated in each man. When each man reaches maturity according to the ideal of love, then the male realm of the universe reaches maturity.
So who can bring this male realm to maturity? It is Adam, who should have become the True Father of humanity. This is something that Adam could have made possible. Likewise, through Eve, the female realm could have come to maturity. Then these two should have become one.
For this reason, a man has to relate with a woman, and a woman has to relate with a man. The two have to make a relationship and become one. On this foundation, they should bear children. Only then can God finally dwell on the horizontal plane. (140-316, 1986.02.14)
Adam and Eve as the body of God
10. What was God's-purpose in creating all things? First, since God does not have a physical body, it was to assume a substantial form. Before the Fall, God intended that Adam and Eve become perfect in love and manifest His inner image.
That was His ideal for the perfection of Adam and Eve. God needed their forms to govern the physical world. Second, God required a body as a base for multiplication.
Once we go to the spirit world, which is the vertical realm, we cannot multiply. In the spirit world, we can only connect to a point oriented at ninety degrees based on vertical love, and multiplication is not possible on the perpendicular vertical axis.
To multiply, a horizontal plane – a substantial space – is required. With the horizontal plane expanding in all directions, love can form a sphere, which creates the vastness of space. Within this sphere, entities can multiply without limit. This includes human beings, who are to multiply while on earth and then transition into the spirit world.
In summary, to multiply and raise heavenly people, God created the physical Adam and Eve. Third, God wanted His partners of love to propagate forever. Do you think it would be sufficient for God to create Adam and Eve and love only them?
His love relationship should not end just with the people of one generation. God needed their forms to propagate the object partners of His love through their lineage. (223-024, 1991.11.07)
11. God's purpose in creating human beings was to exercise the dominion of love over both the incorporeal and corporeal worlds, through Adam and Eve.
Accordingly, to express Himself as a personal God, He had to have a relationship with substantial individuals, Adam and Eve.
Through the perfection of Adam and Eve, God's image, namely His external form, was to have been perfected. Standing at the center of the incorporeal world when He created Adam and Eve, God envisioned that their form, appearance, character, and other attributes would resemble His own. Without possessing an external form within the world, He cannot have a dominion of love. (035-157, 1970.10.13)
12. The incorporeal God does not have a body. Without a body, God cannot govern the spirit world and physical world. To manifest Himself, He has to dwell in a body. The ones in whose bodies He would dwell, His representatives, were to have been Adam and Eve.
If they had not fallen, God would have manifested Himself in them. Therefore, Adam and Eve were to have been the first good ancestors of humankind and were, at the same time, to have become God, who reigns over heaven and earth. They were to have been God in substance.
That is, they had the responsibility to govern the world in the position of the Parents by assuming the image of God who dwells in the eternal incorporeal world. God intended to integrate the spirit world and the physical world according to the form of Adam and Eve. (133-091, 1984.07.10)
13. God has no form. Even when you go to the spirit world, you cannot see God. He has no form, but He needs one. He created all things with form, and therefore to become the Lord and Ruler of all things, He should have a form. That is why God must incarnate in True Parents.
Only then can God be the center of both the visible world and the eternal world, and be the Parent, the King, and the Owner of Peace. (395-069, 2002.10.16)
14. God is incorporeal and has no visible form. To manifest Himself, He needs to assume a form. That is why, to govern humankind and all things that have form, God needs to manifest Himself in the form of Adam and Eve.
Adam, Eve, and God were to be one in the flesh, and God was to be the mind of Adam and Eve. Had God and Adam become one, and had God and Eve become one, then once Adam and Eve became husband and wife their marriage would have been one with God internally and externally.
When, by loving each other, Adam and Eve gave birth to children, those children would have been connected to God's direct lineage. Love would have bound them together. The reason God created this world is that He wanted to experience such love. God created to love. (090-195, 1977.01.01)
15. Adam and Eve are God's body as well as God's object partners of love. You cannot love yourself. Even the Absolute Being cannot experience love alone.
Therefore, God's purpose in creating the world was to prepare the realm of His beloved object partners. The world of creation is the museum of love and the garden of love. (138-133, 1986.01.19)
16. What good would it be for the incorporeal God to remain apart from His creation? For God to remain invisible is of no use to Him. To be the Parent of human beings, God should be able to feel with a body as human beings do. To assume a body, God needed to create Adam and Eve as beings of dual structure, of mind and body.
Why was this? To be the same as the incorporeal God, they had to be able to achieve mind and body unity during their life on earth, before departing for the other world. Without having done so, when they appeared in the spirit world, they would not be able to unite with God in His image.
God created Adam and Eve with dual structures so that they could attain parenthood and substantial kingship in the physical world, and then become one with God, the incorporeal Parent, and manifest substantial kingship in the eternal heavenly world. In short, God created Adam and Eve so that through them, He could take physical form. (133-092, 1984.07.10)
Human beings were created as the temples of God
17. Even though God is God, He has no way of relating to the world other than through Adam and Eve. God's relationship with Adam and Eve serves as a base for Him to relate to their sons and daughters.
This relationship forms naturally. God's purpose in creating human beings was to assume a form and also to place them in a position where they could stand together with Him, as the Parents.
Therefore, Adam and Eve were to be the external God. God made Adam and Eve male and female to represent His dual characteristics of masculinity and femininity Thereby they would become His temples, and he would enter and dwell within them.
Adam and Eve can act in an ideal way only when God comes, dwells within them, and guides their actions. If God does not act within them, they know nothing of His Will. And without them, God has no foundation on which to create a relationship with human beings. (133-093, 1984.07.10)
18. Since God is incorporeal, He can go anywhere, through anything. There is no place He does not go. He penetrates everything. Where does God live? God's home is in the core of our hearts. God's masculine nature dwells in a man's heart and God's feminine nature dwells in a woman's heart.
Thus, Adam and Eve, the original human ancestors, were to be the visible God. That is why whatever Adam called each creature became its name. Whatever Adam wanted to do, all things cooperated with him. (128-326, 1983.10.02)
19. Had Adam and Eve not fallen, God would have dwelt in their hearts. Adam and Eve would have been a couple externally and God in Adam and God in Eve would have been a couple internally.
When children were born through their bodies, bodies united completely with God inside and out, whose children would they be? They would have been the children of the external God and at the same time the children of the internal God.
First Corinthians 3:16 says, “Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?” We human beings are God's temples; it means that God's Holy Spirit dwells in us.
When we are in this position, God is our direct Father. The fact that we are not like this is a result of the Fall. (41-032, 1971.02.12)
20. The human body is God's holy temple. It is God's dwelling place. You will know this when you enter a mystical state, call out, “God!” and He replies, “Here I am” from within you.
When you ask in this way, the answer comes not from the sky but from your heart. Originally, had Adam and Eve not fallen, God would have dwelt deep in the core of their hearts and guided them. That is why the Bible says, “Whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.” (Gen. 2:19) (211-147, 1990.12.30)
21. Adam is the substantial body of God. God said our bodies are His holy temples. God is the invisible Father dwelling in Adam's heart. These two fathers become one; they are united into one.
Adam's original nature was to have been the meeting point of the incorporeal world and the corporeal world. That standard of original nature has nothing to do with money or greed.
As he entered into manhood, all of Adam's cells would have mobilized and his senses would have intensified and served as an antenna. Then God would have settled and dwelt in that place. God would have entered Adam's heart as the internal Father, and with Adam as the external Father, the incorporeal and corporeal worlds would have entered into a harmonious union based on that one individual.
Then, when such a man met a woman who was likewise God's substantial body and entered into union with her in the horizontal world, the spherical motion of love would have occurred. (120-090, 1982.10.03)
The relationship between the Creator and His creation
22. Human beings resemble God. Since God is the absolute subject partner, He can become one with His absolute object partners through love. That is why God, the subject partner of harmony between subject and object partners, created human beings, Adam and Eve.
Nothing is forbidden within the power of absolute omnipotent love. God also gave human beings the power of creation that He exercised when He created Adam and Eve. Since we receive the power of creation from God, we too are in the position to create our sons and daughters.
When all is said and done, just like God, human beings can stand in the position of creating human beings. (057-113, 1972.05.29)
23. God is omnipresent, and we aspire to imitate His omnipresence. God is omniscient and omnipotent, and we also want to be omniscient and omnipotent. God is unique, and we also desire to be unique. This is our resemblance to Him.
Then, what is the point of resemblance over which God rejoices the most? More than omnipresence, omnipotence, or uniqueness, He is most joyful when we resemble Him in love. Love is where we most resemble God. Thus, although we may lose everything if we resemble His love, everything will follow us wherever we go. (26-168, 1969.10.25)
24. We did not know that everything that exists around us, in heaven and on earth, exists as one body in God's love. If you enter into a mystical state, you will recognize that the principle of the universe is contained within a single grain of sand. You will see even within a single atom the endless and inexhaustible harmonies of the universe.
Although we may not understand it well, we can never deny that all existence results from a complex of forces. Within molecules there are atoms, and within atoms, there are elementary particles. Yet even these entities are not without consciousness.
Each exists with a specific consciousness and purpose. We thus can state that all existing beings have come about through God's loving hand and are surely tied to God's heart. (9-168, 1960.05.08)
25. All things in heaven and on earth resemble God. All the things of creation symbolize God, whereas human beings are made in the image of God. God is the reality.
Based on this reality, human beings should resemble Him in image while all things of creation should resemble Him in symbol. Since God is the Creator of all things, that is how it should be. Based on His law, God is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent, and exists in eternal love. (26-167, 1969.10.25)
Sun Myung Moon