Claim. Because of the fall, every human is born to parents who transmit love centered on self rather than God, drawing ‘a decisive line’ that binds the child eternally to the satanic world unless True Parents intervene.
Elaboration. SMM addresses an obvious objection head-on: in an unfallen Eden, there would be no need to forsake one’s biological parents to find new ones. The fact that we are born with this fate is itself diagnostic of the Fall (Section 2. True Parents and Our Natural Parents In what position are your fallen, bio- logical mother and father? Have there been, in a world untainted by the Fall, unfallen sons and daughters of whom God could say, “Oh, you are our sons and daughters!“? In the Garden of Eden, was there a concept that one had to forsake his former mother and father in order to find a new mother and father? No. Then why are we born with such a fate? This). The condition is universal: ‘This fate was not created by God but by Satan. It is the result of the Fall.’
The content is specific. Physical parents teach love ‘with a focus on the physical reality’ while spiritual parents teach love ‘centered on a world that is spiritual.’ The fallen parents’ love is not neutral or merely incomplete — it has ‘led us continuously down a self-centered path.’ The metaphor is decisive: ‘a decisive line has been drawn holding you eternally within the satanic world; and there has been no way to sever it.’
This is the load-bearing premise for the necessity of true-parents: if natural parents could transmit unfallen lineage, no second set of parents would be needed. The claim collides with mainstream Christian anthropology, which generally locates sin in personal agency rather than in the parent-child transmission channel itself, and with the broader cultural assumption that biological parents are the primary locus of moral formation. Worth a thread once a counter atomic on Christian theologies of family is in the vault.