< Cheon Seong Gyeong:
A Principle-Based Examination of the Teaching.
True Parents Are the Body of God. >
1. Citation from Cheon Seong Gyeong.
“What are True Parents? If the Fall had not occurred, God would have become the vertical embodiment of love, and Adam and Eve would have become the body of God.”
Cheon Seong Gyeong, p. 1231 (Right, upper section, line 11 ~ upper section, line 13)
2. A Principle-Based Understanding of the Above Passage.
First, let us consider the biblical testimony regarding the existence of God.
Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…”
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
According to the biblical record and testimony, the existence of God is that of a spiritual being, and this spiritual being is referred to as God’s spiritual Original Being.
As a spiritual being, God’s Original Being possesses an external form and likeness that is expressed through the form of human beings—male and female.
Thus, unfallen Adam and Eve correspond to the position of the embodied image of God.
The image-essence (본성상) and form-essence (본형상) of God’s spiritual Original Being are fully expressed in the image-based completed individual truth body of human beings. In contrast, the symbolic expression of God’s nature is manifested in all things of creation, which constitute the symbolic completed individual truth bodies.
3. Conclusion.
God, as a spiritual being, exists with an external expression in the form and image of human beings—male and female.
Therefore, unfallen Adam and Eve stand in the position of the embodied image of God.

