3. HOW DID GOD CREATE HUMANS?

After creating all things, God created the first ancestors as the hero and heroine of all things in the garden of Eden. When He created humans, it was not for fun, not as a hobby. We must realize the reality that the culmination of God's hard work and effort was the creation of human beings as the center of all things.

When God created humans, He did His best and put forth all His energy. He invested His whole being-His love and heart. He created humans to be in a relationship that cannot be destroyed or broken by anything.

When God looked at humanity, created in the way I have mentioned, peace dwelt in God for the first time. God's happiness and peace can come only through dwelling within humans. God is the parent of human beings. Humans are God's children. God created humans by putting Himself into the center of a human being. Humans are as His body, so if humans pull Him, He cannot escape from that.

God cannot move without pulling humans with Him. God created humans to unite being and purpose in every circumstance. If there were a word or a poem that praised God by looking at humans as God's representatives, that would be the highest work. Nothing expressed by any other poet or writer could surpass it. The object is not God, not all things, but humans which represent all things. (20-207)

God existed before He created the cosmos. God existed and He realized His Word. God's Word is such that it enables Him to create the substantial world in a certain way. After having created the substantial world, He did not set it apart to a place where there would be no relationship with God, but He tried to become one with the substantial world. He tried to fulfill the ideal of inseparable oneness. That means that neither God nor humans could sever the connection.

Where is the best position to fulfill this ideal? From the human view, God stands in the best position and we stand in a position that has no value. But God, who has the highest value, wants us to stand in front of Him in the position of the most valued object, and He wants that to be not just temporary but eternal. So from the beginning, God and humans did not start separately but together. Humans must come to investigate the position in which we begin with God. (68-127)