The reason God did not interfere with the ancestors' Fallen act

Chapter The Fall of Man 

Section VI

The reason God did not interfere with the first human ancestors' Fallen act

God, being omniscient and omnipotent, foresaw the possibility of the fallen act of the first human ancestors. He did not lack the power to prevent Adam and Eve from committing the act. Why, then, did God not intervene to prevent the act of the fall when He foresaw it? This is one of the most important questions, but has been left unsolved throughout human history. We can give the following three points as the reasons God did not interfere with man's fallen act.

1. For the sake of the Absoluteness and Perfection of the Principle of Creation

According to the principle of creation, God created man so that, by inheriting His creative nature, man might dominate all things even as God dominates mankind. However, man must perfect himself by accomplishing his portion of responsibility in order to inherit God's creative nature. We call this period of growth the "sphere of indirect dominion", or the "sphere of dominion over the result of the Principle". While men are in this sphere, God does not dominate them; instead, He seeks to have them fulfill their portion of responsibility. God is to dominate men directly only after their perfection. If God should interfere with their acts during the growth period, it would amount to God's ignoring man's portion of responsibility. In that case, God Himself would be ignoring the principle of creation, in which He exalts man as the dominator of all things by giving him a creative nature. If the Principle should be ignored, the absoluteness and perfection of the Principle would be lost. Since God is the Creator, both absolute and perfect, the principle of creation which He set forth should also be absolute and perfect. Therefore, God could not interfere with the act of the fall while men were in the period of growth, for the sake of the absoluteness and perfection of the principle of creation.

2. In order that God alone be the Creator

God intervenes with beings or acts only within the Principle, but He does not interfere with beings or acts outside the Principle and thus not of His creation. Therefore, if God interferes with any such being or act, that being or act becomes recognized as part of the Principle.

When viewed from this standpoint, if God had intervened in the fallen act of the first human ancestors, it would have meant that even the act of the fall would have been given the value of creation, and that this sinful act would have been recognized as part of the Principle. If so, it would have caused God to set up a new principle which would have called for His recognizing the sinful act as an act of the Principle. Since Satan initiated this process, this means that Satan would have created a new principle, making himself a creator along with God. In order that God alone be the Creator, He could not interfere with the act of the fall.

3. In order to set up Man as the Dominator of all Things

God created man and blessed him, and set him up to be the dominator of all things (Gen. 1:28). In order for man to dominate all things as God desired, he should have possessed certain qualifications as a lord because he could only dominate others from a position superior to theirs.

Just as God was qualified to dominate all men because He was the Creator, man had to have the creativity of God in order to be qualified as the dominator of all things. Therefore, God made man to perfect himself by accomplishing his own portion of responsibility through the period of his growth, in order to qualify him as the dominator of all things. Therefore, man should possess the qualities of dominion that can be obtained only by perfecting himself through such a course in the Principle, before he can dominate all things. If God directly dominated and interfered with man in the period of his immaturity, it would result in making him the dominator of all things when he was not yet qualified to be a dominator, for he did not have the creativity of God, and had not accomplished his portion of responsibility. It would be a contradiction to deal with an immature man and a perfect man on an equal basis. More than that, this would ignore the principle of creation which He set up in order to make man dominator of all things by giving him even His power of creativity. Therefore, God, who made the world according to the Principle, could not interfere with the act of the fall of the immature man, who was still in the sphere of indirect dominion, in order that He could later set man up in the position of dominator over all things.