If, in our world, God exists in the position of parents... Where is the supreme position where the deep heart of man and God can be connected? No matter how high we climb and search, since God is a parent, man must seek the position of the child. That is why Christianity calls God Father. And God calls us humans children. It is about the parent-child relationship. So what is the standard of that the parent-child relationship? When we ask, is it below or above the line of the fall, it cannot be under it. Isn't it so when we look at fallen people today? With love lower than the line of the fall, the parent-child relationship suffers when children are not dutiful, so if parents who had never fallen had undutiful children, how sad they would be. When we think about this problem of love between the parent and child around us in daily life, we can understand the background of it. So didn't God intend to love His children with love above the line of the fall? So how strong will that love be? We find the conclusion that no one had stood in the position above the line of the fall, so nobody knew about this. We human beings fell at the top of the growth stage. So didn't we fall to the position where we cannot attain the position of perfection? Aren't we set apart from a position where we can experience God's ideal elements? So when we think about how it would be if we had not fallen but received these factors, how much higher than ours is that position of relationship with God? Isn't it a position we can't even Imagine? If so, among the so-called dutiful sons and daughters, about whom is said, "The boy of that family is a dutiful son! The daughter of that house is a dutiful daughter," is there any one who can stand before the original Parent and come close to His heart? Is there any one who can stand in the position of true children? We know the answer is that there was no such person since fallen history began. If so, when God wanted to give love at the amount of 100, was there anyone who could receive all 100? There was no one. When God loved, there was no one who understood this love. Nobody understood, yet he couldn't help but love. But we must understand how miserable he must have been. (62-20)
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