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The Purpose of the Creation of the Universe

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It is recorded in the Bible that after God completed each day of creation, He saw that it was good (Gen. 1:4-31). This suggests that God wanted His creations to be object partners embodying goodness that He might take delight in them.

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How can the creation give God the greatest joy? God created human beings as the final step in creating the universe. He created them in His image, in the likeness of His internal nature and external form, and gave them sensibility to all feelings and emotions because it was His intention to share joy with them. After their creation, God blessed Adam and Eve: Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth (Gen. 1:28). These are the three great blessings: to be fruitful (mature and ready to bear fruit), multiply and have dominion over the creation. Had Adam and Eve obeyed this divine mandate and built the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no doubt that God would have felt the greatest joy as His sons and daughters rejoiced in the world of His ideal.

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How can God’s three great blessings be fulfilled? They can be realized only when the four-position foundation, which is the fundamental foundation of creation, has been established. The three great blessings are fulfilled when the whole creation, including human beings, completes the four-position foundation with God as the center. This is the Kingdom of Heaven, where ultimate goodness is realized and God feels the greatest joy. This is, in fact, the very purpose for which God created the universe.

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The ultimate purpose of the universe, with human beings at its center, is to return joy to God. All entities have dual purposes. As was explained earlier, every entity has dual centers of movement, one of internal nature and another of external form.

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These centers pursue corresponding purposes – for the sake of the whole and for the sake of the individual – whose relationship is the same as that between internal nature and external form. These dual purposes relate to each other as cause and result, internal and external, subject partner and object partner.

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In God’s ideal, there cannot be any individual purpose which does not support the whole purpose, nor can there be any whole purpose that does not guarantee the interests of the individual. The infinite variety of beings in the universe form one vast organic body interwoven by these dual purposes.

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    The Responsibility of Those Who Have Become the RootSermon · 1 Jul 1956 · ¶ 107…If you cannot directly feel God, who has not played the role of the master in the course of history from the creation of the universe until now, you will not be liberated in this generation. Accordingly, you must build the altar of prayer on…
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    God’s Ideal Family and the Responsibility the Citizens of Cheon Il Guk Are Called to FulfillBook chapter · ¶ 78…but also the missions of all those major figures from whom religions have sprung. Bearing similarities to God’s creation of the universe, my life has constituted the great work of the re-creation of humanity, where not even the smallest error is…
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    The Significance Of God's DaySermon · 1 Jan 1972 · ¶ 39…enlarges these things to a worldwide level, the external one must come first. That means the restoration of the creation comes first, then comes the restoration of man, and then comes the restoration of parents. It is like a link.
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    The Realm Of ExistenceSermon · 8 Feb 1981 · ¶ 44The aspiration and goal of all the elements was the creation of the universe. Just as human beings have aspirations and hopes, all things of creation do, too, although on a different…
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    The Day Of Victory Of LoveSermon · 3 Jan 1986 · ¶ 8…existence originates in the love of God. All things are designed in the image of the human being, which is the center of creation. Human beings began in love, and will be perfected through love; hence, we cannot survive without love, and…
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    The Proclamation of the Complete Testament Age - View of the Principle of the Providential History of SalvationSermon · 16 Apr 1996 · ¶ 23…was inevitable. And we cannot imagine Creation without a purpose. There was only one reason God needed the Creation: to realize the ideal of True Love.
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    To Be in the Presence of GodSermon · 1 Jun 1992 · ¶ 70You know the New Testament era is an era of offering the self. It is not the offering of the creation. It is the second stage. In the Completed Testament Era, the offering of parents must be achieved. During…
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    Loving The Creation As An OwnerSermon · 18 Jun 2004 · ¶ 3The origin of the concept of the True Father is eternal and unchanging. The concept existed before the Creation; it existed after the Creation. Even during the age of indemnity, God worked hard not to lose his appearance…
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    Establishment of a World of True Heart-Centered CultureSermon · 1 May 1994 · ¶ 14The will of God is the purpose of creation, that is, the ideal of creation which was in God's heart from the beginning of time. All things in the…
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    The New Hope Farm - 1st Jardim Declaration- “Love people and love nature“Address · 3 Apr 1995 · ¶ 22We can also show the standard of how to love and care for the creation. At the same time, we can awaken everyone to the fact that the global environment needs to be controlled…
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    The Will of God -True Father’s release from prison in DanburyBook chapter · ¶ 30They were to become perfectly mature and realize the ideal of marriage. That was God’s ultimate purpose for creation.
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    The Status of Korea, Japan, and the United States from the Providential ViewpointBook chapter · ¶ 13The Savior, the second Adam, who was sent to this world, carried out the providence of God to restore the original purpose of creation. The foothold for this providence was the religion of Judaism and the nation of Israel. On that foundation,…
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    The Meaning And Value Of The BlessingOther · ¶ 1The meaning of the Blessing is that the True Parents and the True Children are fulfilling the purpose of creation.
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    CreationOther · ¶ 41…that order. The age of the Earth is calculated to be several billion years. Considering that the account of the creation of the universe recorded in the Bible thousands of years ago nearly coincides with the findings of modern scientific…
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    The Messiah and the Spirit WorldOther · ¶ 179That is the principle behind the creation of the universe. It is the law of existence. So, if you carry out a complete principled movement here, then the spirit world…
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    Action of Give and TakeBook chapter · ¶ 12The creation of the universe, diverse natural phenomena, motion, and change in the creation are brought about by give and take between…
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    The Dual Characteristics of GodBook chapter · ¶ 25…when God stands as its center. Hence, the universe is a perfect organic body that moves only according to God’s purpose of creation. As one organic body, the universe should exist in a relationship of internal nature and external form, with…
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    Love and Beauty, Good and Evil, Righteousness and UnrighteousnessBook chapter · ¶ 10An act or the result of an act is considered good when it fulfills God’s purpose of creation. This takes place when a subject partner and object partner unite through the harmonious and spirited give…
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    The Growing Period for the CreationBook chapter · ¶ 1The fact that it took six days, that is, six time periods, to complete the creation of the universe implies that some period of time was also necessary to complete the creation of each of the individual…
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    The Identity of the SerpentBook chapter · ¶ 4The question arises whether the spiritual being symbolized by the serpent existed before the creation of the universe or was created as a part of the universe. If this being existed before the creation of the universe and had…
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    The Completion of God’s Purpose of CreationBook chapter · ¶ 1We have discussed how God’s purpose in creating human beings was to rejoice with them (cf. Creation 3). Thus, our purpose of existence is to bring joy to God.
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    What Kind Of Thought Do You Have?Sermon · 10 Jun 1979 · ¶ 10We have to consider the purpose for God's creating such a magnificent universe. I am sure that God had a reason in the goodness of His heart for doing so, but…
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    Master, Guests, and OthersSermon · 1 Sep 1982 · ¶ 229The purpose of creation and the will of God is to fulfill the heavenly four-position foundation. We must dwell for eternity with God…
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    Parents' Day and MeSermon · 27 Mar 1990 · ¶ 87The purpose of creation is for the lower creatures to come closer to God through the higher creatures. Therefore, when a man eats an…
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    Exposition of the Divine PrincipleResearch study · ¶ 41…foundational teachings on the Dual Characteristics of God, Give and Take Action, Universal Prime Energy, and The Purpose of the Creation of the Universe.
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    The Three Great BlessingsResearch study · ¶ 5— The Purpose of the Creation of the Universe
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    The Second AdventResearch study · ¶ 82The First Adam was the original human being, created to fulfill the Three Blessings — individual perfection, the establishment of the ideal family, and dominion over the creation. He fell…
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    DestinationResearch study · ¶ 12…in the Exposition of the Divine Principle, to which the doctrine of destination is bound at every point: the purpose of creation, the loss of that purpose at the Fall, and its restoration all describe one journey with one endpoint.
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    DesireResearch study · ¶ 32The teaching’s conclusion is uncompromising: were the human being to have no desire, neither the purpose of creation nor the providence of restoration could be accomplished, and human society could neither sustain nor develop…
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    Youth in BloomSermon · 25 Oct 1969 · ¶ 367Because the completion of the Four Position Foundation is the completion of the purpose of creation, it becomes the principle by which the satanic world is subjugated. Therefore, we must create a victorious…

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  1. 1.07The Multiplication of Life1 min
  2. 1.08The Reason All Beings Are Composed of Dual Characteristics1 min
  3. 1.09The Purpose of the Creation of the Universe2 min
  4. 1.10Good Object Partners for the Joy of God6 min
  5. 1.11The Process and Standard for the Determination of Original Value2 min
  6. 1.12Original Emotion, Intellect and Will; and Original Beauty, Truth and Goodness1 min

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APA 7

Moon, S. M., Eu, H. W. (n.d.). The Purpose of the Creation of the Universe [Book chapter]. True Parents Legacy Archive (J. Auror, Ed.). https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/the-purpose-of-the-creation-of-the-universe

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Moon, Sun Myung. “The Purpose of the Creation of the Universe.” True Parents Legacy Archive, https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/the-purpose-of-the-creation-of-the-universe.

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Moon, Sun Myung. “The Purpose of the Creation of the Universe.” Book chapter, n.d. True Parents Legacy Archive. https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/the-purpose-of-the-creation-of-the-universe.

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@misc{moon,
  author = {Sun Myung Moon and Hyo Won Eu},
  title = {The Purpose of the Creation of the Universe},
  howpublished = {True Parents Legacy Archive},
  url = {https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/the-purpose-of-the-creation-of-the-universe},
  note = {Book chapter}
}
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Text bySun Myung Moon, Founder of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity; Hyo Won Eu, The first president of the Unification Church of Korea and a key early disciple of Sun Myung Moon.
TranslationWorking translation from the Korean. Official editions are reproduced verbatim.
Editorial scopeTexts are not abridged or paraphrased. Paragraph numbers are stable for citation. Report an error