Why Did God Create Humankind?

Sun Myung Moon June 1999 Compiled from Book 1, Chapter 3 of the Cheon Il Guk Scripture, Cheon Seong Gyeong

From where do 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.

When we look at the cosmos, we see that all beings exist in order to participate in relationships of love. In the mineral world there are plus and minus; in the plant world there are stamen and pistil; 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, and there is harmonious unity of plus and minus within God. When God relates to the creation, this harmonious being of dual characteristics takes the masculine position.

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 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 heart, the family realm of heart and the national realm of heart. The model for all these roles was to have been established in Adam’s generation.

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 totally united, God’s power will be with them eternally. A place where subject partner and object partner do not exist is void of power. Then how does God exist? God exists forever by the power that is generated by the giving and receiving between the subject partner and object partner positions within God. This is how we can explain God’s existence logically.

Consider God’s dual characteristics. All the ideal elements of God’s 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 form a relationship and become one. On this foundation, they should bear children. Only then can God finally dwell on the horizontal plane.

Adam and Eve Who Were to Embody God

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 God’s inner image. That was the ideal for the perfection of Adam and Eve. God needed their forms in order to govern the physical world. Second, God needed 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. In order 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, in order to multiply and raise heavenly people, God created the physical Adam and Eve. Third, God wanted a lineage of partners of love who would propagate forever. Do you think it would be sufficient for God to create Adam and Eve and love only them? God’s love relationship should not end just with the people of one generation. God needed their forms in order to eternally propagate object partners of love through their lineage.

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, in order have expression as a personal God, God had to have a relationship with substantial persons, Adam and Eve. Through the perfection of Adam and Eve, God’s image, that is, God’s external form, was to have been perfected. Standing at the center of the incorporeal world when creating Adam and Eve, God envisioned that their form, appearance, character, and other attributes would resemble God’s own. Without possessing an external form within the world, there is now way for God to have a dominion of love.

The incorporeal God does not have a body. Without a body, God cannot govern the spirit world and physical world. In order to be manifested, God has to dwell in a body. The representatives, the ones in whose bodies God would dwell, were to have been Adam and Eve. If they had not fallen, God would have manifested 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 becoming the substance and 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.

God has no form. Even when you go to the spirit world, you cannot see God. God has no form, but to become the Lord and Ruler of the things of creation, the things God created, God needs to 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.

God is incorporeal and has no visible form. In order to manifest be manifested, God needs to assume a form. That is why, in order to govern humankind and all things that have form, God needs to manifest through 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 this world was created is because God wanted to experience such love. God created in order to love.