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Adam’s FamilyAdam’s Family

What is lineage?What is lineage?

Great-grandparents

Grandparents

Parents

Children

Grandchildren

Great-grandchildren

Our identity is sociallyconstructed by relationships

Most significant relationshipsare familial

To reveal ourselves is to tell our story, where we come from

Our identity comes fromour lineage

What should be our What should be our lineage?lineage?

SocietySocietyNationNation

WorldWorld

True True LoveLove

ChildChildof Godof God

GodGod

Husband Wife

Family

God is Love-> Life-> Lineage

God’s love should be fully expressed through Four Realms of Heart and Three Great Kingships

God’s love would cascadethrough generations

Identity: “I am a son/daughter of God”

Way of life and tradition: living for sake of others

Hospitality to strangers

What is fallen human What is fallen human lineage?lineage?

SocietySociety

NationNation

WorldWorld

CorrupCorrupt Lovet Love

ChildChild

SataSatann

Husband Wife

Family

Way of life: mixture of good and bad, selfish

and unselfish Fallen nature

Fallen traditions

Identity: Confused

“People are deluded into believing thatthe lineage of the enemy is the lifeline upon which the world depends.”

Sun Myung Moon

LuciferLucifer

“Original Sin”

Evil elements

DescendantDescendantss

AdamAdam EveEve

ChildreChildrenn

Evil elements

Evil elements

Evil elements

All people affected by the All people affected by the fallfall

Original Original naturenature

FallenFallen nature nature

True love

Selfish love Evil

inclination

Good inclinatio

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We inherited contradictory We inherited contradictory naturenature

Born in the midway position

Confused identity

Changeable

Wrongly directed original natureWrongly directed original nature passed passed from Lucifer to Eve, from fallen Eve to from Lucifer to Eve, from fallen Eve to Adam and from both of them to all their Adam and from both of them to all their descendants.descendants.

What is fallen nature?What is fallen nature?

The history of The history of restorationrestoration

Adam’s familyAdam’s family

Adam in midway positionAdam in midway position

Adam

All fallen people have good and evil aspects which then make a base for relationship with both God and Satan

GodSatan

God could not use Adam as he was so changeable

Divided AdamDivided Adam

AdamAdam

CainCain AbelAbel

GodSatan

Outside the Outside the PrinciplePrinciple

Status of Status of RelationshiRelationshi

pp

Originally Originally within the within the PrinciplePrinciple

More More unrighteouunrighteou

ss

Eve’s Eve’s MotivationMotivation

Less Less unrighteouunrighteou

ss

Origin of Cain and Abel PositionsOrigin of Cain and Abel Positions

ArchangelArchangel EveEve AdamAdam

Spiritual Spiritual FallFall

Physical Physical FallFall

First Son

CainSecond Son

Abel

CainCain AbelAbel

Cain and Abel Cain and Abel PositionsPositions God

CainCain AbelAbel

Further from GodFurther from God Closer to GodCloser to God


CainCain AbelAbel


ArchangelArchangel AdamAdam


CainCain AbelAbel



BodyBody MindMind


CainCain AbelAbel



BodyBody MindMind

Fallen ManFallen Man MessiahMessiah


How does evil grow within How does evil grow within us?us?

We can become good only if our body obediently follows our mind. All too often our body rebels against the mind’s directions, repeating by analogy Cain’s murder of Abel. This is how evil grows within us. For this reason the religious way of life requires that we make the body submit to the commands of the higher mind. EDP, 194

Restoration in Adam’s Restoration in Adam’s familyfamily

Adam

God

CainAbel

Adam Lucifer

1 John 3:12

Satan

What indemnity conditions What indemnity conditions need to be made to restore need to be made to restore

the fall?the fall?

Adam

CainAbel

Foundationof Faith

(spiritual life)

Foundation of Substance(removing fallen nature, righteous life)

Love God

Love neighbour

SatanGod

Placed in the position to have the same feelings as the Archangel

Placed in the position to have the same feelings as the Archangel

Who did Cain and Abel Who did Cain and Abel marry?marry?

In the Jewish and Muslim traditions each time Eve gave birth she had twins – a boy and girl

AbelCain

EveAdam

Aclima Jumelia

Who is to marry whom?Who is to marry whom?

Adam told Cain to marry his twin sister to Abel, and he told Abel to marry his twin sister to Cain. Abel was pleased and agreed but Cain refused thinking that he was better than Abel’s sister. Instead he wanted to marry his own sister.

So Adam said, “Cain, you and your brother Abel should offer a sacrifice. Whichever of the two of you has his sacrifice received by God will have the more right to her.”

Commentary on the Qur’an by Ibn Isahaq (b.700)Commentary on the Qur’an by Ibn Isahaq (b.700)

How did Cain feel about How did Cain feel about Abel?Abel?

From the time they made the preparations for the offerings, Cain already had hatred toward Abel. It was not that he momentarily felt hatred when God did not receive his offering. Rather, even before that took place, Cain hated Abel and wanted to beat him to death.

Sun Myung Moon Sun Myung Moon Let Us Understand the True Path and Let Us Understand the True Path and Discern the Side PathDiscern the Side Path 1 1stst November 1957 November 1957

How should one make an How should one make an offering?offering?

“If you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.”

Matthew 5:23-24

Making the foundation of Making the foundation of faithfaith

“Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel brought of the firstlings of his flock. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard.”

Genesis 4:3-5

Cain and Abel making their offerings

Cain and Abel make offeringsCain and Abel make offerings

GodGod

CainCain AbelAbel

Cain’s offering not accepted

Abel’s offering accepted

“By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as a righteous man…” Hebrews 11:4

Cain said to Abel, “I will kill you so that you may not marry my sister.” (Commentary on the Qur’an)

Cain complained “Your offering was accepted but mine was not.” Abel replied “Allah accepts only from those who are pious.” Commentary on the Qur’an

Why didn’t God accept Why didn’t God accept Cain’s offering?Cain’s offering?

God did not reject Cain's sacrifice because He hated him

Cain stood in a position to relate with Satan which gave Satan rights over the sacrifice

Therefore God could not accept Cain's sacrifice unless he first made some condition justifying its acceptance

What indemnity condition should Cain have made?

The indemnity condition to remove fallen nature

God counselled CainGod counselled Cain

The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your countenance fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted. And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it.”

Genesis 4:6-7

Fallen natureFallen nature

1.1. Not seeing from Not seeing from God’s viewpointGod’s viewpoint

2.2. Leaving one’s Leaving one’s proper positionproper position

3.3. Reversal of Reversal of dominiondominion

4.4. Multiplying evilMultiplying evil

Original natureOriginal nature

1.1. Love AbelLove Abel

2.2. Receive God’s Receive God’s love through Abellove through Abel

3.3. Submit to AbelSubmit to Abel

4.4. Learn God’s will Learn God’s will from Abel and from Abel and multiply goodnessmultiply goodness

Abel’s sheep and Cain’s Abel’s sheep and Cain’s cropscrops

Abel’s sheep and cattle wandered into Cain’s field and destroyed his crops

Talmud

And Cain said to Abel

And it came to pass when they were in the field . . .

And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

Genesis 4:8

Abel: “Yet if you stretch out your hand against me to kill me, I shall not stretch out my hand to kill you, for I fear Allah the Lord of the worlds.”

Qur’an 5:28

Cain murders AbelCain murders Abel

And the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” And he said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?

Genesis 4:9

How did God feel?How did God feel?

The fighting between Cain and Abel made God miserable and more than any other time His heart was broken when Cain killed Abel. God will be most pleased when the brothers make up with one another and come to Him together. According to this principle it is essential for Abel to restore his brother. Unless you restore Cain, God will not accept you.

True Father The Completion Period for the Restoration12th November 1978

Failure in Adam’s familyFailure in Adam’s family

Adam

God

CainAbel

Foundationof Faith

Foundationof Substance

Satan

Why did Cain murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous. 1 John 3:12

What lessons can we learn What lessons can we learn from Adam’s family?from Adam’s family?

God’s will can only be fulfilled by the combined effort of God and human beings

God couldn’t tell Cain and Abel how to make the sacrifices It was their responsibility to work it out

If there is a failure God chooses someone else

We have to constantly search for Abel-type figures to honour, listen and follow

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