DIVINE PRINCIPLE (The Principle of Creation) The Purpose of Creation God is an eternal and unchanging being. Therefore His will and ideal must also be eternal, unchanging and unique. Before His undertaking the task of creation, there was within God His ideal, and in order to realize it, He created man and the universe. Then, what is Gods ideal of creation? Whenever God made a new species of creation, He said that it was good to behold (Gen. 1:4-31). Because perfect happiness is felt when our own personality is reflected through an object, God created man and the universe as His objects. Especially since man was created as Gods direct objects of happiness, He gave man dominion over all things (Gen. 1:28). In Gen. 2:17 God commanded to the first human ancestors, Adam and Eve, . . of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die. In this commandment God expressed His will and heart of love for man. Therefore, we can see that man is created as an object of love to respond the most directly to Gods will and heart. Since the Four Position Foundation is the base upon which God can operate, when man has achieved these four positions centering around Gods ideal of love, we become an object of Gods perfect happiness, thus realizing Gods purpose of creation. Gods purpose of creation of man is well summarized in Gen. 1:28: And God blessed them and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion. . . First man should attain perfection and unity in heart with God, becoming a man who thinks and acts constantly centering around God, and the fruit of Gods vertical love and His object of perfect happiness. This is the state of individual perfection. Secondly, after both Adam and Eve attained perfection, they were to become eternal husband and wife, forming a heavenly family, thus perfecting the horizontal love of God. God gave them the ability to bear children so that they could experience with their own children the vertical love that God has for us. If Adam and Eve had perfected the purpose of Gods creation and formed the first family, bearing children of goodness, they would have become a true father and true mother centering around God, the eternal true parents and ancestors of mankind. Therefore, the basic unit of heaven is the true family where the Four Position Foundation is established and Gods love, both vertical and horizontal, can dwell and be freely expressed. Upon that foundation of such a true first family, centering around God, His will is to realize a true society, true nation and true world. If Adam and Eve had established such a family and world on earth, this world would literally have been the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Man is made of spirit and body; thus, after deeply experiencing such love while on earth, and returning all the glory to God, he would then go to the Kingdom of Heaven in the spiritual world upon finishing his bodily life on earth. This is Gods original plan of creation. unification.net/dp96/
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