The Way Of The Spiritual Leader - 382 Chapter 5 - Ministering and Giving Guidance to the Members Section 4 - Restoration Through Indemnity and the Formula Course 2. Portion of Responsibility and Indemnity
2) Portion of Responsibility - 1
What would have happened if man did not have his portion of responsibility? Why was man given his portion of responsibility? You lecturers don't even know that?
Why was the human portion of responsibility set? [In order to realize Father's will on the earth] It originally concerns the purpose of creation.
Originally, why was man given a portion of responsibility? In order to have man participate in the great creative undertaking. What is next? [In order to have dominion over all things.]
Then? [In order to qualify him as the master of creation by making him a co-creator] Next? [For the absoluteness and the completeness and perfection of the truth] It is these three contents.
You must participate in God's great creative undertaking. Even if there was no fall initially, such responsibility still exists. The human portion of responsibility was not established by the fall, but even without the fall man still has this responsibility.
Even if one is equipped with God's 95% ideal form necessary to reach perfection, one must still complete the remaining 5% of his own responsibility.
God cannot bring about the perfection of man alone, man has the responsibility to make a contribution in perfecting himself. This would be true even if there were no fall.
Moreover, there is the absoluteness of the Principle. Principle does not know forgiveness. It must be obeyed. You must go the Principle way even after you are dead. It must be adhered to forever.
If God can do as he pleased, then there is no need for the path of suffering that He has been walking during the course of dispensation of restoration.
Because it has been set up in this way, because there is a limit in the way that the responsibility has been apportioned, God is unable to escape this fact and thus has been going through the course of countless tribulations in order to restore man.
Responsibility does not lie only in God. Man shares the responsibility. This is true even if there were no fall. Isn't this so?
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