Either way, why would God even create a fruit which first could kill His children and secondly, if creation was made for humanity's enjoyment, why create something that was for the purpose of their death?
Would the God you love create such a contradiction?
Through the teachings of the Divine Principle, we learn that indeed the fruit was symbolic for something else entirely.
Adam and Eve were likened to the trees in the garden.
If we are to compare a man and woman to a tree, in the center is their sexual organs which bear fruit.The fruit that come forth from a man and a woman's seed are children.
When we realize that the fruit was the sexual organs which we were not to eat or touch of, then the history of the root of sin makes sense.
Secondly, if the fruit was to mean sexual organs, did He mean for them to abstain forever?
Adam and Eve were teenagers who had not reached physical maturity or spiritual maturity yet. Thus they had not become perfected beings which God could relate. Therefore, to prevent the Fall, God gave the warning to not eat or touch of one another in their immature state before uniting with Him.
Once they were to reach perfection, been blessed in marriage directly by God, then they would have been able to delve freely in the fruit of each other with God as the center.
Since there was such a danger from partaking of the fruit before maturity, why did He make it part of creation before they were ready?
The Fall changed the blood lineage from God's pure blood to Satan's lineage whose word and will they followed.
This is why they were driven out of Heaven.
If they had perfected themselves, they would have become God's body and wife respectively.
By introducing another element, false word of do eat now, this introduction led to a disease inside God's body or temple and ideal.
God lost His original ideal for a world of peace flourishing with His love and His everything and humanity went into the other direction.
Adam and Eve acted as God's enemies when they ignored His warning.
How miserable was God's heart when He witnessed this taking place?
The Fall is the grave in which Adam and Eve buried themselves.
The Fall became the root of free promiscuous sex and the origin of individualism.
What kind of nation has America become today?
It overflows with extreme individualism, excessive pursuit of privacy not public life and free sex. Do you think that God is in favor of these lifestyles when He looks down upon His children?
Is He happy to build such a heaven on earth to turn into a perpetual hell for Satan's will?
What has America's extreme individualism brought about?
It is like they are saying that they would abandon heaven and earth, the world, their nation, their society and family to pursue endeavors that only help themselves.
People who live in such a way are like gypsies who begin wandering around with no place to go.
They may end their lives in suicide.
The original mind which God endowed to humanity does not desire such extreme individualism or privacy.
It rather dwells in receiving love from the universe and the nation, from our neighborhood and village and from our parents.
But, because people walk the opposite path of their God-given conscience, it is stricken and they are able to feel the pang of a contradiction with their original mind.
Without God, this empty hole and wanderings about in their soul will never be filled.
Because they are unable to fill this 'hole' within them, more and more people would rather die than live and so they commit suicide through drugs.
You Reap What You Sow
What did Adam and Eve plant in the Garden of Eden when they gave into their sexual organs outside of God's dominion and followed Lucifer's advice? They sowed seeds of free sex.
Can this fact be denied?
This is why when God came into the Garden, they covered their sexual parts and not their mouths. If the fruit was literal, then they should have covered their mouths when God confronted them. We naturally hide our transgressions.
Before the Fall, Adam and Eve were naked and free. Afterward they hid their private parts and God asked them how did they know that they were naked.
It cannot be denied that the Fall was caused by fornication.
When we know this simple fact that has been hidden and masked throughout the ages, we can plainly see how Satan has used fallen, unclean sex to keep God's children bonded to him and away from God.
Where is the dividing line of heaven and hell? Is it in the mid air?
It is none other than your sexual organ.
This is a serious matter that must be understand so one does not repeat the mistake of our first ancestors.
Those who use their sexual organs aimlessly will be bound for hell.
Those who use theirs according to God's absolute standard of love will be led high up into heaven. This is a clear conclusion.
Absolute, pure sex has God at its center, whereas free sex is centered on oneself and Satan. God's absolute standard of love will be led high up into heaven, this is a clear conclusion.
Historically, world literature and the media have often used images of free sex to stimulate the audience.
Therefore, from now on, all of us including politicians, economists, writers, and journalists must unite to lead the way to prevent promiscuous sex from further destroying the youth and this nation.
Free sex should disappear completely if we are even thinking about a better world.
Who has ever declared such a statement?
Chastity for Woman and Purposefulness for Man
Do you just love whomever you want, even a man who calls you on the the street? Do you follow him or not? You should not. You should not have that kind of tendency.
You each should protect your bodies until the time is right.
You should not just hand over your pure love to devilish men who strut and loiter on the street.
Why place your fate into the hands of such a man?
This is a simple matter.
Since you have only one life, once you take the wrong step, you would be unsettled for life. Therefore, women should strictly directly maintain their chastity, from now on, men should do the same. In only this way will they be restored to their original position before the Fall.
However evil and heartless this world may be, you should not do things which will lead you astray from the principled path.
You should not defile your purity during your adolescence.
This is a precious time when you are able to overcome the bitter failure of Adam and Eve who lost their purity in their teenage years.
When preserving that purity, which has a pristine value, you should have the mind and determination that even if you have to live alone for a thousand or ten thousand years, your love organ won't ever be misused.
When certain men see a pretty woman, they would wish that she was their wife even though they already have a wife at home.
These kind of men have two minds of a thief.
Since Satan was the first to have two minds, it is not wrong to call men with two minds Satan. Such people are no different from Satan who defiled the sexual organs, too.
The time is coming when not just women, but men should keep their chastity.
If a man errs in this regard, it is as if his whole clan committed a serious crime against God's will.
Even if a person has a respectable position, it does not mean that he is permitted to be unfaithful to his wife.
If he does, his whole clan is useless to God and will perish.
We have now entered the age where men must remain chaste in order to bequeath a historical tradition of purity.
Christian communion is for the sake of establishing the tradition of Jesus' pure flesh and blood which is connected to God's pure blood lineage.
There is a saying that goes, "Chastity for woman and purposefulness for man."
This saying means that chastity is for fulfilling God's will concerning keeping pure love.
Since it is said that chastity is for women, they should know only one love. Since it is said that purposefulness is for men, men should go forward unwaveringly for the sake of one purpose only.
Adam and Eve should have known the correct path and have maintained their chastity, yet they fell.
A man that loves a woman with God's love should stand in a position where he can say, "I have loved her totally with eternal and unchanging love from beginning to end."
Also, a woman in order to stand in such a position, should seal her body tight.
Just as a peony flower blossom formed from many layers of petals, she should hide herself deep inside.
Then when the springtime of the harmony of heaven and earth comes, she would harmonize with it and start a new life.
We should all know this well.
Return for Tomorrow's Post: Your Conscience is a Second God
This post was rewritten and derived from the book, Cheon Seong Geyong, Book Four, Chapter Twelve, Section 5,6
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