1) God's Providence to Restore Fallen Man What do you think God would do with this fallen world? At first you may think that since man was damaged and failed his test, God would throw him away. But that would never happen. God created human beings with the ideal of eternity. He created them as His eternal objects of love. Therefore we can conclude that as long as human beings fail to be His perfect objects of love, God remains an imperfect God. Why? Because God can only gain the title of Eternal Subject of Love through human beings, his objects of love. Therefore, until today God has worked through religion to carry out His providence for re-creation, in order to realize the original purpose of love. He has directed providential history, through which the true religion of love could appear. How could God recreate His ideal son and daughter from fallen sons and daughters? Saving a person who has fallen into the water means pulling him back onto land, where he was before. Saving fallen man, which is re-creation, means restoring him to his original position before the fall. In other words, since human beings failed to realize God's ideal of love, God, through re-creation in accordance with the Principle of Creation, will move them back to their original position. There they will lead their lives centered on God's ideal love. Therefore fallen man absolutely needs religion through which he can realize the ideal of love, and all religions which have emerged from the deep will of God's providence will teach the nature of love. Because of the fall of man, there has been no way to set any ideal standards. Man is already divided into two separate directions, so no matter how strong a person is, he cannot control his body with his mind and move both in the direction of goodness. If man could bring unity between his mind and body centered on love, he could live harmoniously without struggle. If there had been no fall, humankind, centered on God's love, would have become united with God as one body. God is not the kind of God to just stand by while human beings are living in this fallen world. He has worked until today to lay the foundation for re-creation through religion, in order to establish the ideal world which He has wanted from the very beginning. This is God's providence for salvation.
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