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The Principles of Creation Part 2

The Principles of Creation Part 2. Why did God create the universe and me?. What is the purpose and meaning of life?. All beings have a purpose. Determined by the creator, not by the created being. Purpose Value, meaning. The basic principle for understanding.

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The Principles of Creation Part 2

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  1. The Principles of CreationPart 2

  2. Why did God create the universe and me? What is the purpose and meaning of life?

  3. All beings have a purpose • Determined by the creator, not by the created being • Purpose Value, meaning

  4. The basic principle for understanding “Know yourself. He who knows himself will know God. He who knows God will become like God.” St. Clement of Alexandria

  5. What do people want? “Everyone is struggling to attain happiness and avoid misfortune.” EDP, 1 “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” Aristotle

  6. What makes us happy? • Baby? Drink milk, be cuddled. Idea of milk and cuddle doesn’t satisfy • Doesn’t just want to see mother, wants to be embraced and loved physically • Toddler? Wants to touch everything • Don’t just want to see toys, want to play with them • Take it away -> cries Happiness comes when one’s desire is fulfilled which comes from a relationship with an object

  7. What kind of objects? Object in which own nature reflected and complemented. Object which stimulates one to feel and discover self.

  8. How is joy produced? Creator Creation Love Joy Beauty Subject Object Object reflects one’s dual characteristics Object stimulates one’s dual characteristics Object complements one’s dual characteristics

  9. Which is more stimulating? • Our object partner helps us to feel our own internal nature and external form through the stimulation it gives. EDP, 33 • Idea or reality? • When the idea alone is the object partner, it is not as stimulating, nor is the joy as profound, as that from a finished work. EDP, 33 • So God created a substantial world

  10. God wants to have relationships of love with beings like himself Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.Genesis 1:26 “I say, ‘You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you.”Psalm 82:6 “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you have made; what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him little less than God, and crown him with glory and honour.Psalm 8:3-5

  11. God wants to live with people God’s purpose for creating human beings is to experience joy through relating with ideal families filled with true love. Sun Myung Moon “The dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them.”Revelation 21:3

  12. God wants to interact with the creation • God is invisible and without form • Even though he created the universe he cannot rule it without a body • So he created human beings as his body • By becoming one with human beings God can experience the creation

  13. To sum up Why did God create man? The first purpose was to have a being with whom He could relate as His object. The second purpose was that God Himself had to have a form through which to communicate with all things in the invisible world and the substantial world. From this viewpoint, what kind of being is Adam? The invisible God manifested Himself in the substantial form of Adam, in order to stand as the subject in the substantial world. God's third purpose for creating man was in order to fulfill His ideal of love. In that ideal, the subject and the object were to become one. God wanted the ideal world of love to remain forever. God created man centred upon these three purposes. Why We Have to Go Through Hardships 11.9. 1972

  14. God, man and creation God Subject Love Joy Beauty HumanBeings Object Subject Love Joy Beauty Created World Object

  15. How can we become ‘like God’, the body of God, the dwelling place of God, the incarnation of God? “Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.”Ephesians 5:1

  16. What is God like? • Heart • Intellect, emotion, will • Logos • Reason and law • Ethics - relationships of ordered love • Four Great Realms of Heart • Creativity To become like God, God gave human beings the Three Great Blessings

  17. The three great blessings And God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it.” Genesis 1:28 God Heart Logos Creativity Fruitful Dominion Multiply Human

  18. First blessing - be fruitful Body Mind The ability to create and complete our character “Be complete as yourheavenly Father is complete.” Matthew 5:48 We create our character through our thoughts, words and deeds God Sensitivity to the Heart of God Fulfill potential Joy Subject Object Whole hearted “You are the temple of God and God’s spirit dwells in you.”1 Corinthians 3:16 Keep promises True Person Unity of mind and body Words and deeds are one Meditation

  19. Mind - Body unity Body Mind God Food Beauty Sleep Truth Subject Object Shelter Goodness Sex True Person

  20. HEART God Emotion Intellect Will Mankind Emotion Intellect Will Feeling Thinking Doing Beauty Truth Goodness Pursuing:

  21. Fulfilment of the first blessing Whatever we do whether we like it or not we create and express our character by everything that we think, say and do Embodiment of the truth of God = True Teacher

  22. We create ourselves Dorian Gray

  23. Second blessing: multiply God The ability to create a family The love of God and the love of man are not two loves, but aspects of the same unifying love. St Maximus the Confessor Four Great Realms of Heart Joy Wife Husband True Love Family is the basis of society “If we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.” I John 4:12 Child When husband and wife are united in marriage, they are no longer seen as something earthly, but as the image of God Himself. St John Chrysostom Family Society Family is the school of love Nation World

  24. The fulfilment of the second blessing Development of human relationships • Familial • Friendship • Work • Social Whatever we do whether we like it or not we form relationships with other people that are an expression of who we are

  25. What is love? “Love is patient and kind; lovedoes not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7

  26. God’s love - God Woman Man Children Expressed and experiencedthrough the family Love, life and lineage Husband Father Wife Mother True Love Son Brother Daughter Sister

  27. Good Environ-ment Third blessing: take dominion Right of dominion over the creation Harmony with nature God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. Genesis 2:15 God The creation waits for the revealing of the sons of God. Romans 8:19 Microcosm Natural World Person Joy Stewards Lords of Creation Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. Genesis 2:19 Inherit God’s creativity

  28. Dominion • Develop creativity and self expression • Develop and perfect skills • Responsibility and freedom of ownership

  29. The fulfilment of the third blessing Inherit God’s creativity and dominion of heart and love • Art, sculpture, building, making • Gardening, farming, music, clothes • Industry, manufacturing, fishing • Walking, climbing, cleaning, driving • Ecology, stewardship, ownership Whatever we do whether we like it or not we create an environment around us which is an expression of who we are

  30. We create our environment

  31. Purpose of life – three blessings God God God True Love Person Body Things Mind True Love True Love Husband Wife Mature Person Good Environment Child Multiply Be ‘Fruitful’ Have Dominion Family Society Nation One World Family

  32. Our main roles in life • True Teacher • Unity of words and deeds • Practice what you preach • True Parent • Heart of a parent in the shoes of a servant • Treat people justly • True Owner • Looks after the things he owns • Creates a good environment • Freely shares what he has with others

  33. Dual aspects of purpose Joy God and others Joy to the self Whole Purpose Subject Individual Purpose Object

  34. How do you integrate the two purposes? • The individual purpose and the purpose for the whole are not independent. They are related and interdependent • The purpose for the whole is secondarily the purpose for betterment of the individual. • The individual purpose is not separate from the purpose for the whole. • The purpose for the whole cannot continue to exist without guaranteeing the individual purpose. EDP, 33

  35. Next - How do we grow spiritually?

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