Raising Children In God's Will (158) Chapter 3. How to Raise Children Section 2. Need for Family Education
2) The Fall of Man Requires Education - 2
Because of the fall, we need a messiah. Without the fall, we would not need one. Because of the fall, we lost our God. Because of the fall, we lost our basic human character.
Without the fall, we would have retained the basic knowledge of God. But this is not the work of God, not the work of God. That's the condition already established for us. We need no more.
If we were one with God, there is no knowledge lacking in our midst. We would not need any education dealing with the fundamentals of man.
What is the basic problem of man? It's food. Then survival. Then, after the two are taken care of, love emerges. Have you learned how to eat since you have been born?
We were born with the natural ability to eat. We must eat. When our mouth touches something we naturally want to eat it.
Therefore we naturally seek to fulfill more than eating, surviving, and loving. We should move from these goals, onto the world of solid feelings, then onto the world of solid values in order to avoid the fall.
However, because we have fallen, everything is in reverse. We must make right what is in reverse. When a baby is born, he comes head first, his buttocks last.
This must be reversed. We look like humans but we are not. It's our dilemma, all because of our fall. Therefore we must struggle against this fall concept. What must we realize in order to reverse this state of being?
Controlling the fall concept is more important than wanting a messiah. We must fight the fall concept. Our strength gets stronger as we increase our struggle. (55- 13)
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