Did God Give Up on Us?
By Celine Stoco
A lot of people feel like God has given up on humankind because of all the problems we see in today's society: crime, hunger, war. It’s understandable. Unificationists, however, believe that God has always loved us as a parent, but that humans have made that relationship more complicated.
We think we know the story of the Fall from the Bible: Adam and Eve did something wrong and because of that, humans are now suffering. But that’s not the whole story.
Unificationists believe that what made Adam and Eve fall was not an apple or some other fruit that God forbade them to eat. According to The Divine Principle, the apple is a metaphor for the sexual act between a man and woman. The fall of humankind from God was the sexual relationship Adam and Eve had before they were mature and ready to have that relationship sanctified by God, their Heavenly Parent. What’s more, both Adam and Eve decided to hide what happened to God and the rest is, well, our unfortunate history.
No, God did not give up on us.
He has been trying his best to reach out to us throughout all of human history, but because of the mistakes of the first human family, our relationship with God was broken. God wants to express his wishes to us and help us directly, but because of the Fall, things got a lot more tricky.
Humans have dreamt of a utopian world where everyone is good and nobody suffers. The Italian philosopher Tommaso Campanella described a perfect city called the “City of the Sun,” where the city is based on equality and community. French philosopher Charles Fourier proposed communities with houses called phalansteries, where people would live in harmony as equals, sharing everything.
We can feel in our hearts that the society we are living in today is not what was originally planned, and, hopefully, it won’t remain like this forever.
God wants humans to be happy. He did not give up on us. He is suffering more than any of us can imagine, seeing such horrible things happening to his precious children.
If we are willing to reconnect with God and open our hearts and minds to him, he will surely guide us.
But we need to take the first step. We believe that the Marriage Blessing is that first step. It allows us to restore our connection to God’s lineage and to build families that follow God’s original blueprint. By creating supportive and loving families, our community and society will naturally grow closer to God.