Claim. Unfallen Adam and Eve were to be “God in bodily form” — God’s external face on earth, the first ancestors of humankind and simultaneously the visible incarnation of the invisible Creator.
Elaboration. The strongest formulation in the section: “Adam and Eve are the first ancestors of humankind, [but] they were also supposed to be God, who rules over heaven and earth. Adam and Eve were to be God in bodily form” (2.2. Adam is the first ancestor and visible God, 133-91, 1984.7.10). And: “Eve was Adam’s wife, a wife with physical form. If Adam were God incarnate, Eve would be God’s wife incarnate” (ibid, 22-279, 1969.5.4).
This is the structural premise behind the True Parents claim: because the Fall prevented Adam and Eve from achieving this incarnation, the messianic mission is to bring a new couple to the position God originally intended (true-parents, messiah-completes-physical-marriage-and-family-salvation).
Importantly, “God incarnate” here is not the Christological hypostatic union — it is union by love, after maturity, with Adam and Eve as distinct persons whose minds are filled by God. The internal/external Father language (“God is the internal Father, and Adam the external father”) preserves the distinction even at its tightest.
See also. csg-god-needs-body-via-adam-and-eve