Section 1. Why Are Human Beings Born?
Which came first, life or love? You can argue for either answer. But which do you think really came first? Love came first. The Primordial Core of the universe must have emanated love prior to creating existent beings. Otherwise, existent beings would have no value. (143-277, 03/20/1986)
At the very origin of things, which came first, life or love? Can you discern the answer? Love came first, then life. Since what comes second must surrender to what comes first, it is natural that people give their lives for the sake of love. This helps us understand the true way of life. Since love gave birth to our life, we should walk the path of love and ultimately die for love.
The purpose of human life is to establish a love that can be welcomed by the macrocosm, not merely the microcosm. It is to live, to love, and to die participating in the universal love that is recognized by God, the angelic world, all things of creation, and our parents. (Blessed Family-164, 02/08/1976)
Human beings do not choose to be born. Are we born by our parents’ desire? No. We are born by God’s desire. We are conceived through the love of our parents, which represents God’s love. Each of us was created as a new life by the love of our parents, which represents God’s love.
Love has the power to create the whole. Each of us was born as a central being of the entire universe, receiving all the love in the universe.
The highest purpose of life is to be born through love, be raised in love, live by love, and leave behind a legacy of love.
In our family we should live by this love, which is at the very center of the universe. Then we become people of the greatest value. (Blessed Family-1062)
It is important to understand why human beings are born. We are not born for the purpose of attaining vast knowledge or political power. We are born because of love and for the sake of love. What makes love so great? Love is the fountainhead of life.
You were born out of your parents’ love. You were not born from your parents’ desire for money or knowledge. Because you were born from love, you should bear the fruits of love. This is why you need to have children. A man and a woman each becomes complete when they become one as husband and wife and then have sons and daughters as their object partners. (Blessed Family-1062)
Human beings cannot exist apart from love. Each of us lives on the foundation of love. Everything in creation originates from God’s love.
Since all things that exist have love as their foundation, it follows that human beings, as the center of the created universe, must also have begun from love.
Since we were born from love and mature through love, it follows that we cannot live separated from the realm of love. (Blessed Family-1062, 08/20/1988)