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In 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 , St. Paul states:
Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is sacred, and you are that temple.
Just as when the mind and body “become one” God indwells within the “temple,” likewise, when man and woman of matured character, with the expanded capacity to give and receive love become “one” in a God-centered marriage of commitment, God indwells within the union.
 We can love with true love because God, our True Parent, first loved us with true love. God created human beings out of His absolute love, to be His partners in love. This relationship forms an axis of love, linking God the Father with human beings as His sons and daughters.
God transfers all his loves to such a man and woman. This is the true ideal of marriage. We were to become true children by perfecting our individual character after going through an autonomous period of spiritual growth based on the principles God established. We were then to become true couples, have our own children and attain the position of true parents. In this way, we were to perfect ourselves by practicing and embodying the true love that God bestowed upon us at our creation.
 God intends for the seeds He plants to grow through love into a bountiful crop that He could harvest in their season. The ideal of God’s creation was to raise love between a man and woman to the point where it would blossom into a true love, flourish with true life, and bear fruit in a true lineage. God desired to gather up owners-and families-of eternal life, eternal love and eternal lineage, and to bring about His kingdom; a peaceful, ideal world as their homeland.
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