The Result Of The Fall
Through an illicit sexual relationship, Eve united with the archangel, and Adam united with Eve who had united with the archangel. Adam and Eve formed a family through the husband and wife relationship centered on Satan rather than God. For this reason, all their descendants came to inherit the blood of Satan.
Therefore, even though the sons of Adam and Eve originally were to have been the first and second sons of God, through Eve's forming an illicit relationship with the archangel, Satan claimed them instead.
Originally in the ideal of creation, love was to determine ownership. According to the Principle, when a subject and an object form a relation. ship of love, each shares the other's possessions. Therefore, when we look carefully from this Principle viewpoint, we see that Satan came to have the ownership of all humankind born as the descendants of Eve, because she fell with the archangel through an illicit love relationship.
John 8:44 reads, "You are of your father the devil."
Because of the fall, man and woman cannot but surrender to Satan. Human beings exchanged their own Father. We abandoned God, who is our true Father, and united with a false father, Satan. This way, the first man and woman became the son and daughter of Satan.
Adam and Eve unlawfully became husband and wife under Satan, without the blessing or permission of God. Therefore, when Adam and Eve had children, they were born not as children of God, but as children of Satan. Therefore, after Adam, children with original sin multiplied to form a world of evil. The cause is that man and woman could not persevere centered on God.
In the world of evil, there is only sinfulness, faithlessness, crime, hatred and war. Nations cannot feel pain even when they act to destroy each other. This is hell on earth. The actual master on earth is Satan, not God. Therefore it is recorded in John 12:3 l, "Now shall the ruler of this world be cast out."
We all know that God created this universe. We also know that God created human beings. However, God could not become our master because man and woman went against God and became one with the false parent, Satan. Therefore, Satan has been the father of all humankind.
The first human ancestors, Adam and Eve, disbelieved God's Word and fell. They therefore lost the true husband and wife relationship and were not able to become each other's true object.
God's purpose of creation was for Adam and Eve to marry as a bride and bridegroom of goodness, becoming husband and wife and then parents. However, this was destroyed because of the fall, and the providence of restoration began with Cain and Abel. This was not supposed to have been the beginning of our history. We can't help but resent our ancestors for this unfortunate history.
Because of the fall of Adam and Eve, God cannot treat them as the first ancestors of true human beings, as the parents of humankind, as His son and daughter, or as His bride and bridegroom. Although Adam and Eve were His only son and daughter, God cannot treat them as children of filial piety.
Through the fall human beings lost the true love of father, of husband, and of brother.
Since Eve's fall caused this loss, women have to go through so much suffering, until they restore what they caused to be lost.
Through the fall, we lost true parents, true husband and wife, and true children. Eve and the archangel caused this loss. Thus all women living on this earth are dependent upon the archangel-type father, the archangel-type husband, and the archangel-type brother. These women are very miserable. It is like the daughter of a rich man living with the servant of his house. In other words, the daughter was born inheriting the blood of the servant.
Since these women are unable to receive love from their original husband, original father, and original brother, the person who comes as the Lord brings these kinds of love. Because of the fall, three kinds of love relationships -- with a father, a husband, and a brother -- could not be perfected, and as a result women could not become daughters with happiness. Therefore, these three kinds of love relationships must be restored on earth.
Because the order of love has been violated, we cannot bring happiness to the world until we restore the order of love.
People who are in the satanic realm have no relationship at all with God's blood lineage. In other words. humans who were to be born as children of good parents were born with a relationship to evil parents. Centered on evil, one family expanded to become a tribe, nation, and world.
The fall might seem to be a problem limited to Adam and Eve. However, because Adam and Eve are the ancestors of humankind, they are the origin and center of our existence and they influenced the whole future of the individual, society, tribe, nation and world.
The fall of Adam and Eve was not a fall just of Adam and Eve; it was the fall of all human history combined together. In other words, the fall of Adam and Eve means that Adam and Eve became parents of evil instead of goodness. From an evil parent, evil children were born, and through these evil children, the evil society, nation and world formed.
The history of humankind living in this satanic realm has been very sorrowful.
God's ideal of creation could not be realized because of the fall of Adam and Eve. Because Adam and Eve became fallen parents, they multiplied children with original sin. The history of humankind has developed centering on this fallen family of Adam and Eve, expanding to the society, tribe, nation and world. After the fall, the ideal of a true parent who can stand in the position of having perfected the original will of God remained unfulfilled until today. Also, the creation of a true family, true society, tribe, nation and world centered on True Parents remains an unfulfilled ideal.