How Did We Come to be?

For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is my sinful nature.  For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot bring myself to carry out good deeds.  For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do-this I keep doing.   Now, if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living within me that does it.

Romans 7 18-20

This sinful self that is called our fallen nature or human nature.  The self separated from the original heart of God.

How did we come into being in this world?


Our father and mother united in their love, and bring together their lives and ideals. Our parents' love precedes our birth and is a force that unites. When a husband and wife become one through love, this means that the husband's love, life and ideal becomes the wife's and the wife's love, life and ideal becomes the husband's. This is how two live as one and two become one flesh.


Based upon this foundation, this union of love thus generates a new life.


A newborn baby is the manifestation of his or her parents' love, life and ideals. When you look at your own child, you are looking at another you, the fruit of your love, life and the fruit of your ideals. It is as if you are looking at your second self – another visible form of yourself.


This principle can expand to the universal scale. God created men and women as His sons and daughters. Just as we bare children like us, God wants to also see Himself in human beings.


In the Bible, it states, “God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female he created them.” (Gen. 1:27)




We are created in the likeness of God. In other words, God incarnated Himself in human beings. Therefore, we are the mirror of the living God, and His every virtue, characteristic, and quality is reflected in this mirror.


Wouldn't God want men and women to reflect His true love, true life, and ideal, or will He be satisfied with His children exhibiting a false father's nature full of sin?


We are the fruit of God's love, life and ideal. He desires to substantiate Himself in the world.


He finally reached that point with the birth of original parents Adam and Eve. When God encountered Himself through His children, it was a moment of great revolution for Him. It was a romantic, exciting moment when God was able to see Adam and Eve for the first time.


Before the Fall, Adam and Eve bore characteristics of God in the pure sense, but yet they were still in the stage of maturity.


Adam and Eve's birth was a morning of glory for God in the creation of all of the entire universe. When someone asks what does God look like, the answer is, He looks like Adam and Eve. Before they fell, they were the walking, physical manifestations of God on the earth. They were the visible form of God. In this respect, they were to truly take over Lordship of the universe whereas God would still remain the invisible Lord of the entire spirit world.


The question again, 'why did God create human beings?'. Was it for His enjoyment, to have power over another being or was it for a purer purpose?


God wants to become a physical tangible form. The day Adam and Eve were born was almost like God's own birth. As they grew closer to the completion stage of maturity, God's also spiritually grew into a greater fulfillment together with them.


We are developing toward a fulfillment, both in heaven and on earth, with God and humans beings growing together.


God and His children were one person actually before the fall, therefore, when Adam and Eve laughed, God laughed and when they were moody, God was also moody. When they worked, God worked.

The growth of men and women is the growth of God Himself as well.

What is perfection and why do we believe that it is unattainable?


Perfection means the perfection of true love, without any lack of any kind. This is a perfectly round love.


This explains why we consider Jesus to be the absolute example of a perfect human being, his true capacity to love.

Are you able to say that there is love present because you can see it? No one is able to see love, but we know when it is there. Are you able to handle love, or does love handle and embrace you?


Love does not belong to anyone. Love belongs and ecompasses all. What if there was a dictator that wanted to conquer all the love in the world for himself and control it at his will. No matter how much power this dictator may acquire, love would just laugh at him because it will never come under the control of just one person.


Love is a unique power that has the ability to bring unity between Eastern and Western people. Military power or the power of culture and religion cannot bring about this unity.


This kind of perfect life, true life of joy and love lived for God would bring about constant earthly joy that is unequaled by any other love or happiness.

When you are able to reach this stage of perfection then prayer or religion is not necessary.

Why would either be necessary if you are a living perfect being that has oneness with god and meet Him face to face. You live heart to heart with Him, and converse with God.

Therefore, you no longer will need religion to teach you the true path back to God or need a savior as a messenger between you and God. You will be able

God created religion as part of the mending process of restoring each person back after the Fall created a sinful lineage. A person who lives in perfect health does not need a physician. Also, a person who lives in perfect union with God does not need a savior.

All these things of religion are part of the mending process, the process of restoration. A person of perfect health does not need a physician. The person in perfect union with God does not need a savior.


This is the one great way to live: life in union with God, life in God, and life living in you. This explains the spiritual state which Jesus spoke when he said, “Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?..” (John 14:10

God and human beings will embrace in one all consuming love.

In this spiritual state, then God is made a living reality.


At this point, then you no longer have to just believe, but you know about the living God.

Then you are able to live the truth. When you are able to experience this kind of deep true love and oneness with God, then you have tasted the supreme experience of life.

God did not create humanity for misery, He created us to live our lives in complete intoxication. We are not speaking of narcotics or artificial intoxication, getting drunk on alcohol, marijuana, or drugs. We were meant to be intoxicated by the love of God.

There is nothing on earth that can replace or go beyond this feeling of joy. When you experience this true love of God, every cell in your body will explode with joy. Your eyes and ears, the tissues in your face, your arm and legs will be newly alive within the rapture of joy.

There is nothing else on earth that can match the quality of joy.

Once anyone discovers the way to be intoxicated by the love of God, even if you were to urge him to try drugs or alcohol to reach any type of high, they will refuse. After experiencing God's love, everything else becomes flat compared to the taste of the love of God.

God's love is precisely like electricity. This current can be conducted by any part of the body. 

If the love of God touches your mind, then your mind will jump. If it touches your emotions, then they will jump. If it touches your ears or your eyes, then they, too will jump.

After knowing this, have you deeply experienced God's love that vividly?

When you receive the love of God, it is similar to receiving an electric shock. Once that current hits a person, he or she may appear unconscious, but inside they are actually trembling with ecstatic joy.

Once this living current of love hits you, you feel like you want to close your eyes, but your eyes will not close.

Your whole body will be activated, so you cannot stop reacting to that love.

The Almighty God wants everyone to be a part of such an explosive, gigantic, dramatic love, not a love that is flat and pale-tasting like a beer that has been sitting around for three days.


Let's look from the viewpoint of God and you are capable of doing anything. Wouldn't you want to create a love that is at such a magnitude that when it moves, the entire universe will be excited, not listless.


When God laughs, He does not want to laugh alone. He wants the entire universe to laugh in the full joy of love.

Such a joyful love cannot be created by selfish people.

You can taste such love with you totally release yourself in giving. 

This is God's love. This is His original plan, His ideal of creation which is total opposite from the world we experience today. Do you truly feel vibrant feelings of God's presence when you say, “Heavenly Father.”

Wouldn't you want to hear Him answer, “Yes, my child?”




“Here is my gift to you tonight: I want you to realize that the true relationship between God and human beings is a subject and object relationship. You are His sons and His daughters. Once you have achieved unity with God, nothing can trouble you. Neither sorrow nor loneliness, sickness or anything else under the sun can discourage you.”

God is the ultimate security.

Even if you were to pay many millions of dollars, you still could not buy that kind of security; it is priceless. There is no amount of money that can buy it. This is where you truly experience life.


God meant for all of His children to live fully with Him. When you become men and women who are able to live centered on God, you become the center of the universe. Then, wherever you go, to Mars or to spirit world or the physical world, you are still in the image of God.


No matter how small or large your portion which you occupy in the center, you will fit into any place in the universe and be accepted.


Your life is the most valuable thing in the universe when you live within the realm of God's love.


This is why Jesus said, “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life?” (Matt. 16:26)
In this passage, Jesus is speaking about living a life with God.

Life without God is like a burned-out electric bulb which will never go out.

A life without God is death.


Jesus Christ is the one man who lived God's ideal to its fullest realization. He was the very first man of perfection to have ever walked the earth. Yet, God did not plan for only one person to be the full image of His being.


Jesus' entire purpose for coming to earth as a human was to restore God's relationship with His children. But, after Jesus crucifixion, Christianity made him into only God. This created a huge gap between God and ourselves, which we have never been able to bridge together.


Jesus is a man whom God was able to incarnate fully, but Jesus is not God Himself, meaning Jesus did not create the earth.


God dwelling within Jesus was a total reality. He is indeed the only begotten son of God, but God did not only want one true son. What about true daughter?


We can summarize the entire purpose for Jesus coming to the earth: Jesus came to bring the resurrection which was needed so human love could be perfected to the point that we could be completely dominated by God's love, not satanic.


This goal is fully attainable by every human being.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the teachings of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, author of “The Divine Principle”.