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Why God Set Up the Commandment as an Object of Faith

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Exposition of the Divine PrinciplePart 02 · The Human Fall
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Why did God nurture the faith of Adam and Eve by giving them the commandment, “Do not eat of the fruit”?

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In their immature state, Adam and Eve could not be directly governed by God through love. Because the power of love is stronger than the power of the Principle, God foresaw that if they ever formed a common base with the Archangel, there was a possibility that they could succumb to the power of deviant, unprincipled love and fall.

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To prevent this, God gave Adam and Eve the commandment that forbade them from relating with the Archangel in this way. No matter how powerful the unprincipled love of the Archangel might be, had Adam and Eve adhered to God’s commandment, forming a common base with God and engaging in give and take with Him and no other, the power of the Archangel’s unprincipled love would not have affected them and they would never have fallen.

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Tragically, Adam and Eve did not obey the commandment, but formed a common base with the Archangel and had give and take with him. Hence, the power of illicit love pushed them off the track.

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It was not only to prevent their fall that God gave immature human beings the commandment. God also wanted them to enjoy dominion over the natural world – including the angels – by inheriting His creative nature. In order to inherit this creatorship, human beings should perfect themselves through their faith in the Word as their own portion of responsibility (cf. Creation 5.2.2).

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God gave the commandment not to the Archangel but only to the human beings. God wished to exalt the dignity of human beings as bestowed by the Principle of Creation, which entitled them to stand as God’s children and govern even the angels.

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CITED IN · 9 REFERS TO · 3 AngelsChildren of the H…, 1973The Seven-Day Fast, 1974The Responsibilit…, 1976 Thisbook chapter The Power of Love and t…Adam And EveThe Realm of Indirect D…
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    AngelsBook chapter · ¶ 60…by the Principle of Creation, which entitled them to stand as God’s children and govern even the angels. (Exposition of the Divine Principle, Fall 3.2)
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    Children of the Heavenly FatherSermon · 23 Jan 1973 · ¶ 40He always has the attitude not to wait for God's command. He always feels busy, always impatient to do things, and always with tense nerves. If you have that…
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    The Seven-Day FastSermon · 20 Oct 1974 · ¶ 127That's the cause of the fall, so we must come into utter obedience to God and think of nothing other than God's commandment, saying and doing nothing other than God's commandment. And that's the only way we can restore ourselves and…
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    The Responsibility of Cain and AbelSermon · 1 Nov 1976 · ¶ 64But Noah was utterly obedient to God's command and began to build the boat on the mountain. Why would God have to ask abnormal things of Noah? Simply…
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    For God So Loves the WorldSermon · 21 Jan 1984 · ¶ 244…God is crying out to the world, and we are His instruments. The world must respond to His call. Listen to God's commandment.
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    Who Goes The Way Of Indemnity?Sermon · 29 Jan 1984 · ¶ 58…the Unification Church, the purpose of believing in God and paying indemnity, working hard and following God's commandments, and so forth was simply so that a person could go to Heaven.
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    We, Who Stand on God’s Front LineSermon · 11 Dec 1960 · ¶ 176…Moses were the elite soldiers who were to guard God’s front line. Yet the people of Israel did not heed God’s command to sound the trumpet of the march and to fight, and they refused the words of Moses, the chief of staff, who…
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    The Time and the MissionSermon · 17 Aug 1969 · ¶ 62To do so, one must act together at a standard where God’s command and one’s own original mind are made one. Before God’s command and one’s own mind and action are made one…
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    The Protagonists of HistorySermon · 4 Oct 1969 · ¶ 147On this earth, where centering on Satan, the descendants of evil had multiplied, she, following God’s command to forsake all the human ethics and morality of evil, denied her whole self as a woman and became the one…

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  1. 2.07The Spiritual Fall and the Physical Fall5 min
  2. 2.08The Power of Love and the Power of the Principle in the Human Fall2 min
  3. 2.09Why God Set Up the Commandment as an Object of Faith1 min
  4. 2.10The Period During Which the Commandment Was Necessary1 min
  5. 2.11Satan and Fallen Humanity1 min
  6. 2.12Satan’s Activities in Human Society2 min

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APA 7

Moon, S. M., Eu, H. W. (n.d.). Why God Set Up the Commandment as an Object of Faith [Book chapter]. True Parents Legacy Archive (J. Auror, Ed.). https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/why-god-set-up-the-commandment-as-an-object-of-faith

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Moon, Sun Myung. “Why God Set Up the Commandment as an Object of Faith.” True Parents Legacy Archive, https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/why-god-set-up-the-commandment-as-an-object-of-faith.

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Moon, Sun Myung. “Why God Set Up the Commandment as an Object of Faith.” Book chapter, n.d. True Parents Legacy Archive. https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/why-god-set-up-the-commandment-as-an-object-of-faith.

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@misc{moon,
  author = {Sun Myung Moon and Hyo Won Eu},
  title = {Why God Set Up the Commandment as an Object of Faith},
  howpublished = {True Parents Legacy Archive},
  url = {https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/why-god-set-up-the-commandment-as-an-object-of-faith},
  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