Claim. God could not abandon fallen humanity because His longing was to bring them back and say to them, “I am your eternal Father and you are My eternal sons and daughters.”
Elaboration. SMM names the providential motive in family-form rather than juridical form: “Why was it that God couldn’t forsake humankind, but rather clung onto them, undergoing continuously the historical course of countless sorrows to this day? It was because He wanted to be able to say to them, ‘You are my begotten sons and daughters.’ He has been battling until now to realize such an ideal” (CSG 15.4 §1, 3-26, 1957.9.15). And the final acknowledgment scene: “What is God’s greatest hope as He guides the providence in relation to the earth today? It is to bring people born from fallen parents back over to His side and say to them ‘I am your eternal Father and you are My eternal sons and daughters.‘” The chosen-people history — Adam’s family, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Israel — is then read as God’s repeated search for someone to whom He could say this in full standing (8-93, 1959.11.22). The providence is therefore parental yearning carried through history, not abstract justice working itself out.
See also. csg-true-parents-liberate-god-from-bitter-sorrow, han