1. All things have form, but God, as an incorporeal being, has no form. In terms of size, He can be infinitely large or infinitely small. All things of creation have substantial bodies, however.
If God were to manifest or exhibit Himself in one particular pattern or form, He would not be able to directly govern them. For this reason, to be the Lord of the substantial world of creation, God must manifest His form and character through a substantial being.
God should have dominion over all created beings, those on earth and those in the infinite spirit world. To govern incorporeal substantial beings, including the archangels, as well as the beings with their myriad forms in the corporeal substantial world, God needs central beings that manifest His complete image. This is why God created Adam and Eve. (35-157, 1970.10.13)
Why God created human beings
2. Why did God create human beings? He created them because of love. God did not create just to make some kind of artwork. He began the creation because of love. For this reason, love precedes existence.
God made the model of love as the standard and then created it. From this ideal model, God created a man and a woman and the entire created world.
(161-327, 1987.03.08)
3. Why did God, the Absolute Being, create men and women? It was not for money, knowledge, or power. It was for love. The only way God can feel love is through His partners, human beings. From this standpoint, we can say that God is the Father and human beings are His sons and daughters.
This relationship is the axis. If God and human beings had been connected through this axis, they would have become one in love. Then absolutely nothing could sever their relationship. (137-057, 1985.12.18)
4. What do you think was God's purpose in creating human beings? Simply put, even though God is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent, He would rather not be alone.
Hence, God created the cosmos as an environment for human beings, and on that foundation, He created human beings to be His partners in absolute love. Because God created human beings as His children, He wanted them, as His object partners, to be better and greater than He is.
Even in this world, don't people want their children to live better than they do and become better than they are? This tradition of parents' love is a blessing that God bestowed on human beings.
God's purpose of creation was to experience joy in seeing men and women, His children, grow to perfect themselves in spirit, blessing them in marriage, and having them bear the fruit of true love, true life, and true lineage by multiplying true children, creating true families, and building and living in the eternal, ideal kingdom of heaven. (474-162, 2004.10.30)
5. God began creating heaven and earth and all things to develop the world of His object partners. Specifically, God wanted to create others like Himself as His counterparts.
That is why God invested Himself. God intended to evolve from being a God who is not seen to being a God who is seen.
The work of creation requires investing, which consumes energy. How much did God invest Himself in creating? He completely poured out His true life, true love, and true ideals. Therefore, the situation before God created, and the situation afterward were different. Before He began creating, God was thinking of.
Himself, but after He began creating, He lived completely for the sake of His counterparts. That is why we too exist not for ourselves but for our counterparts.
The words “love” and “ideal” exist only when we live for our objective partner. Hence, the basis of an ideal existence is to live for the sake of our counterparts.
It can never be based on living for ourselves. (69-082, 1973.10.20)
6. Why did God create human beings? It was not just so He could watch His sons and daughters live their lives. When I deeply pondered this question, I concluded that He created us to share love with us.
God's purpose in creating us is love. Love is the foundation upon which God created life. God did not generate love after first creating life. In other words, life germinated because love began to grow in God's heart.
Since life sprang from that love, its result should come about using that love. Since the beginning was love, the end must also be love. This is why we human beings are miserable when there is no love in our lives.
When we talk about love, we do not talk about ourselves because love occurs through mutual relationships. Love can arise only through a relationship between subject and object partners. (57-022, 1972.05.21)
7. God's last step in realizing His purpose of creation was to assume a form. The incorporeal God cannot govern the physical world directly, so to be the Father and Mother of all humankind, God has to manifest in physical form.
He has to embody Himself in the physical forms of human beings so that when these human beings relate to one another as subject partners and object partners and are stimulated through their sensory organs, He also will experience that stimulation. (025-343, 1969.10.12)
8. Why do you think God needed Adam and Eve? God had two purposes in mind. First, He wanted to realize the ideal of love. Second, being incorporeal, God wished to manifest Himself in a form.
Adam and Eve were to be the base and core through which the incorporeal God could assume form and establish a relationship with the corporeal world. If you could look at the perfected Adam and Eve in the spirit world, Adam and Eve would be like God's body and God would be like Adam and Eve's mind.
Like the mind, God is invisible. God's purpose in creating Adam and Eve was so that each of them would be a complete person, like the mind and the body of the substantial world.
As a result, as perfected people in the spirit world, each of them would be a unified human being. (092-147, 1977.04.01)
9. When God and human beings become one through love, Adam's body and God's body the God embodied in Adam become one, and Adam's mind and God's mind become one. It is likewise with Eve.
Then God can fully feel the image of Adam and the image of Eve. This is the basis from which the principle of origin, division, and union begins. The origin is divided and then comes together. What is the purpose of division?
The first reason is so that God can be in the position to perfect His love through His object partners of love, who have bodies. His love is not perfected as a vertical relationship of above and below but through beings in a horizontal relationship. In the same way that the mind is vertical, and the body is horizontal, God also has a mind and body.
His body is one with Adam's body and His mind is one with Adam's mind, and likewise, with Eve, God finds His substantial self through a substantial man or woman who are united in mind and body.
The invisible God exists with internal character and external form, but His existence is on the level of a mind. That is why, to become one with the physical world, God created Adam and Eve. (294-243, 1998.08.05)
10. Why did God create Adam and Eve? God, being formless, cannot have direct dominion over the world of substance. The invisible God cannot directly govern the visible world of creation, the universe.
This is the reason God needs to assume a body. Furthermore, it is in a body that God can experience love.
This is why He created human beings, Adam and Eve. When God incarnates in them and experiences love through them, God is stimulated internally and externally.
As long as God is only existing on the level of a mind, He will not be able to experience stimulation without a physical counterpart. (166-232, 1987.06.07)
11. God exists as a being without form, and as such He cannot feel stimulation when relating to the universe of forms. He can try to stimulate Himself, but no matter how much He does, as long as it is only in His mind, which is incorporeal, He is unable to feel stimulated.
There cannot be stimulation between things that are the same. However, when two contrasting things come together, such as warm and cold ocean currents, spectacular reactions can take place. God longed for that kind of stimulation. He needed something that would be stimulating and alive, yet at some distance from Him.
That is why God in the plus position created His partners in the minus position. (141-038, 1986.02.16)
12. The Principle of Creation explains why God created by dividing His dual characteristics. If we view God as complete, then we can view Adam and Eve each as half of God. Adam is half of God, and Eve is half of God. It is so since God divided Himself in creating them.
What is the purpose of having each substantial being on behalf of God? An individual alone cannot make a family, much less a nation or the kingdom of heaven. There must be two halves, Adam and Eve, who become one through love. (380-047, 2002.06.04)
Human beings are the temples of God
13. What would have happened if the first ancestors, Adam and Eve, had not fallen? They would have attained oneness with God. Then they would have inherited from Him the great task of creation and shared His joy in completing it.
Standing in the same position, they would have rejoiced together after completing the creation together. Such would have been the relationship between God and humankind. If the original human beings had had nothing to do with the Fall, they would have become God's temples.
Had Adam and Eve not fallen, then when they married and became human ancestors, God would have entered their minds and dwelt there. Having entered their minds, God would have become their center, and Adam and Eve would have become God's body.
That is why Jesus said, "I am in the Father and the Father is in me." (John 14:10)
He meant that he was one body with God. Yet, that was supposed to have been the case with Adam and Eve. Jesus did not fall. If likewise Adam and Eve had matured and received the Holy Marriage Blessing with God as their center, they would have become one in the realm of His direct love.
God would have been the center of this realm. Had this happened, human beings would have become the embodiments of God, His substantial bodies. (54-064, 1972.03.11)
14. Adam is God's body in substantial form. First Corinthians 3:16 states, “Do you not know that you are God's temple?” What is a temple? A temple is God's dwelling place. Originally, the place in our hearts where love blossoms should be the holy of holies, where God comes to dwell.
That is why God was striving to build the temple of universal love in Adam's heart and, from the power of the love generated there, bring the flower of love into bloom. It was for this purpose that God created Adam and Eve and blessed them to create a family that would eventually fill the whole world. (121-113, 1982.10.24)
15. In the Garden of Eden God created all things, and then He created the first ancestors as their lords. When He created human beings, He did not do so for amusement or as a hobby.
The hard work and devotion that God invested in creating human beings and establishing them as the center of all created things cannot be described in words. God utterly devoted Himself to creating His sons and daughters. He put forth all His effort.
He gave all His heart and soul and the essence of His life. Furthermore, he poured out all His love and affection. He created human beings as His ultimate creations, to exist in a relationship with Him that no force could ever undo or severe.
God created them like this so that through them, He would find peace. It is through them that He will one day feel the full range of intimate affection and happiness. (20-207, 1968.06.09)
16. God is the Father of human beings, and human beings are His sons and daughters. God created them by investing the core of His being. Truly, He gave the bone of His bone, the flesh of His flesh, and His very marrow. Thus, it is that when people pull on God, He cannot help but be pulled along.
Conversely, when God pulls them, they cannot help but be pulled along. God created human beings in such a way that they would share His essence and purpose within their relationships. Human beings were created to receive God's praise.
The stories and poems that He would write to praise them would be the greatest stories and poems ever written, far surpassing those of any writer or poet in this world. The object of this praise would not be God, nor would it be any of the creatures He had made. That praise would belong to human beings, the epitome of all creations. (20-207, 1968.06.09)
17. What kind of status should human beings have about God, the subject partner, which would allow them to both govern and be governed by love? Human beings are not meant to receive God's love merely in the position of His disciples.
If God had daughters and sons, people would not want to be merely daughters-in-law and sons-in-law; their goal would be to go one step higher to become His sons and daughters. People do not want any position apart from that. God wants us to establish just such a relationship, a parent-child relationship with Him.
The ultimate truth of the universe is that human beings must recover this position. No one has struggled harder than I to understand this truth. I went into a mystical state and asked, “What is the highest truth of the universe, which all people are seeking?” The answer I received was the relationship of parent and child.
(54-087, 1972.03.20)
18. Human beings are meant to be the partners of the absolute God. Through absolute love, God and human beings are meant to become as body. If Adam and Eve had become one body with God in this way, the sons, and daughters born to Adam and Eve would have been not only the children of Adam and Eve but also would have been God's children.
If this had happened, God's family, tribe, people, nation, and world would have all been realized, substantiating God's lineage. Since the links between them would be rooted in God's eternal love, no one would be able to separate them.
Such was to be the kingdom of God's lineage, founded in God's love. It was to have been the kingdom of heaven on earth. (54-065, 1972.03.11)
19. God is the Absolute Being; that Absolute Being is our Father; and that Father is the Sovereign of the cosmos. In other words, from the perspective of the world, God is the sovereign Lord and the center of heaven, but when viewed from our perspective as human beings, God is our Father.
How awesome is our Father! The word “Father” signifies that God is the closest being to all people in the spirit world; therefore He can unite them all. It signifies that God is the closest being to all people in the physical world; therefore He can unite them all.
It signifies that God is the closest being to me; therefore He can bring unity between Himself and me. There is nothing more intimate than the word “Father,” whether in the spirit world or the physical world. (30-055, 1970.03.15)
Sun Myung Moon