Cheon Seong Gyeong 897
What determines the division between heaven and hell? It is not decided by knowing or preaching the Bible well. It is decided through results and heart. In the end, the boundary line between heaven and hell is determined by the boundary line of the heart, and the boundary line of results. (32-231, 1970.7.19)
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Originally, when God as the Parent created Adam and Eve, He reaped the benefit of having children. At the same time, He enabled the children to benefit by having parents. God’s hope was to raise His children to perfection. Had this happened, it would be possible to say that God would have harvested both Adam and Eve.
Then, why do we need parents and why do we need children? God is spiritual and human beings are physical. The parent-child relationship is also like this.
The invisible God bears fruit through the visible child and then enters into the heart of the child to reveal His value as the visible God. The invisible God bears fruit within the child’s heart and the fruit of the child is then produced. It is possible to transfer the fruit of the father to the child. And thus, for God, both His fruit and the parent’s fruit are produced. They have equal value.
Then, why are parents and children needed? Even though God possesses love, He needs a partner to share His love. We as children also need a partner to share our love. This partner relationship between parents and children is like the relationship of heaven and earth. It is a vertical relationship.
Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon
Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity
Chapter 2
The Internal Meaning of Sin and the Fall
Section 1. The Fall Means the Father’s Place was Taken by Another
1.1. Satan, the devil, is our father
Summary:
The original Fall of humanity was not caused by literally eating a fruit , which is a metaphor, but by an illicit love relationship between the first human family and the archangel Satan. This act destroyed God’s original ideal of love and altered the human lineage, causing people to be spiritually born into Satan’s lineage rather than as direct children of God. Understanding this root cause is essential for recognizing why humanity must be restored and adopted back into God’s family.
My close examination of the original sin and Fall revealed that its cause lies in the adulterous relationship with the archangel that took place in the first human family. According to the Divine Principle, Satan is not a conceptual or imaginary being, but a real spiritual being. He is the ringleader who destroyed God’s ideal of love and changed God’s lineage to the one centered on himself. In chapter eight of the Gospel of John, Jesus states clearly that the father of humankind is the devil.
The adulterer who deprived God of His ideal of love, which God intended to realize through Adam and Eve, as His external body, is indeed the devil, Satan. This may not sound familiar to you; however, this is the conclusion that I have gained as a result of searching throughout the spirit world in order to investigate the fundamental problems of the universe. That quest was a struggle in which I shed blood and tears. If you pray in earnest, you will also be able to receive an answer about this. (135-12, 1985.8.20)
What were the real circumstances of the Fall? The Bible says that the Fall occurred due to eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but this is just a metaphor. The fact that people have believed this literally until today is miraculous. Even though Christianity irrationally believes that people fell by eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, it has developed globally until the present, and built the civilization of the twentieth century. Seeing this we can understand that God was helping it tremendously from behind the scenes. However, what kind of result can arise from something that has uncertain internal contents? Perfection cannot come from ignorance. (22- 242, 1969.5.4)
If you carefully study the contents of the Bible, you cannot deny the fact that due to the illicit love the human ancestors connected themselves to the devil, Satan, with a relationship of father and children. Human beings are precious beings who were supposed to inherit God’s lineage and be born as His own sons and daughters within His absolute love. However they were born into lineage of devil, Satan, as his sons and daughters. In the eighth chapter of Romans, it is recorded, “…but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the spirit, groan inwardly, as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.” An adopted child has a lineage different from that of his foster parents. This is the reality of human beings. (53- 261, 1972.3.1)
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