What is God's Will? It seems to be a very simple question, but actually it is a very difficult question. I asked one theologian to explain to me the Will of God and he said to me, "It seems like a very simple question, but actually it is very difficult to explain." Of course he is right. So what does Rev. Moon of the Unification Church think that God's Will is? We have to give an explanation concerning the Will of God. This is an absolute necessity. The reason for this is that God is the origin of the whole providence for salvation and is the central point of unity and the driving force of providential history. So I think that giving a conclusive definition of the Will of God is of the utmost importance.

So what is God's Will? It is to realize His ideal of creation, which is to complete His purpose for creating the universe. It is simple. So what is God's Will? It is to realize the purpose of creation. God did not create the universe without a purpose; He definitely had a purpose. So it is natural that God's Will is to realize His purpose of creation.

Who was the center of the purpose of creation? It was Adam and Eve. This is why, in the Unification Church we say that God's purpose of creation is to realize His ideal of creation. So why did God create the universe? It was to realize His ideal centering on Adam and Eve, and we say that this ideal is to establish the four-position foundation.

Then, what is the four-position foundation? It is for Adam and Eve to become absolutely one with God so that even if they tried to leave the realm of God's love they could not. They would attend God above in the position of Father, and on the earth they would be the central family in the position of the ancestors of humankind and be the unified starting point of love. Then by following the ideal that God had when He created Adam and Adam would relate to Eve in the position of united love.

If God's Will had been realized centering on God's love and if Adam and Eve had become husband and wife and had children who in turn had realized the love which would have enabled the parents and children to become one, then the Adam culture sphere would have been established.

There would not be the countless races and tribes that we see in the world today. Also, culture would not have been formed by the tangled mess of history. There would be one race, and there would be one culture sphere which would have arisen from one ideology. From the point of view of culture, there would be one historical root and all the customs would be the same.

The family would have multiplied into the clan, the people and the nation, all within the realm of God's love. The nation, in turn, centering on Adam's family would have expanded into the world. In this way God's ideal world based on the Adam culture and thought would have been established. Then what would this world have been centered on? God's love. Then with God above as the Father, all humankind would have been as brothers and sisters. As a fruitful tree of love, roots would have grown a trunk, the trunk branches, and the branches leaves and this world would have been one body of God's love. Thus would have been realized the eternal ideal world. This is a summary of our worldview from the point of view of God's Will. (110-213)

1. THE FOUR-POSITION FOUNDATION

The purpose of creation can be realized only when the four-position foundation is completed. The first four-position foundation is the perfection of the individual; the second is the substantiation of the reciprocal foundation.

Man has an emotional side-love and family-and a missionary side, such as work. If a person doesn't have both of these things in the world of existence, he is like a dead person.

Jesus did not complete the three objects purpose of God, Adam and Eve. Accordingly, because Jesus didn't have any children he couldn't stand in an upright position in front of God. (19-21)

When a man and a woman become one body through True Love, their relationship as a couple becomes inseparable. Then eternity exists there. This is what the Unification Church thinks about the family. Do you understand? [Yes]

So we are looking for this kind of family. Because we are seeking for this type of family the Unification Church teaches that the providence for salvation is for the providence for restoration, and the providence for restoration is for the realization of the purpose of creation, and the purpose of creation is the complete fulfillment of the four-position foundation. Then everything centers around the family. If there is no family there can be no proper tradition. How can you inherit tradition without the family? [You can't] What can't you inherit without a family? Money? No, you don't need a family to inherit money. Power? No, you don't need a family to inherit power. You can't inherit love without a family. This is why you need to know about the four-position foundation. Do you understand what I am saying? [Yes]

Then what is the four-position foundation? Men and women both have minds and bodies. They form four-position foundations. One has a spirit man and a physical man or a spirit woman and a physical woman. What does the spirit self represent? It represents the vertical. It is a vertical concept. (187-47)

As a husband and wife, it is only when we gain the victory with our children, together as a family, that we can say for the first time that we are a family that has realized the ideal and purpose of creation. It is only after the father and mother have become one and then the children and parents have become one that a perfect four-position foundation is formed.

God could not find one such family on this earth. There was no family, not even an individual who was able to totally overcome the power of Satan. Unificationism teaches that this purpose is not achieved by the individual alone; it can be achieved only in the family with children. (52-307)