Claim. The stages of human life — infancy, siblinghood, marriage, parenthood — substantially express developmental stages God Himself underwent invisibly; Adam and Eve grew as God’s “second creators.”
Elaboration. §3.2.2 puts forward a striking claim about formation-growth-completion-stages in God Himself: “What did God love in Adam and Eve? The fact that Adam and Eve grew up as His son and daughter signifies that He also developed in a similar fashion. God too had times when He was like a baby, sibling, spouse and parent, and that is why He created them in this way” (3.2. Humankind is the center of love in the created universe, 254-274, 1994.2.15). The doctrine of “second creators” follows: “Ideally, Adam and Eve as a loving couple giving birth to a child would be the same as standing in God’s position as the Parent… The first Creator, the invisible God, created Adam and Eve as the visible second creators” (ibid, 258-240, 1994.3.20). The implication is that the parent-child relation is not God’s accommodation to creaturely weakness; it is the structure through which God Himself becomes substantial.
See also. csg-god-himself-had-to-develop, csg-parents-as-second-creators