Claim. Sang Hun Lee organizes God’s attributes into two structurally distinct aspects — the Divine Image (form: Sungsang/Hyungsang, Yang/Yin, Individual Images) and the Divine Character (function: Heart, Logos, Creativity) — arguing that traditional theology has neglected the Divine Image side.
Elaboration. Lee accepts that historical religions (Christianity, Islam) have catalogued attributes like omniscience, omnipotence, supreme good, love, and creativity, but argues these all belong only to one side — the Divine Character. The neglected side is the Divine Image: God’s form-attributes (I. Content of the Original Image).
The move is methodologically aggressive: Lee is claiming that ‘we cannot solve actual problems fundamentally’ by limiting ourselves to the traditional attribute list. Only with the Divine Image — the dual characteristics of Sungsang and Hyungsang — in hand can the problems of human life, society, history, and the world be addressed at their root. This is a load-bearing claim for the entire UT system: every subsequent doctrine (give-and-take, four position foundation, two-stage creation) depends on the Divine Image being a real and structured attribute of God, not merely a metaphor.
The partition itself is novel relative to classical Christian theism, which tends to treat God as pure spirit without internal structural duality. Lee’s wager is that classical theism’s ‘pure spirit’ God cannot ground a material universe coherently — a point he will press against Aquinas’s creatio ex nihilo and Cartesian dualism later in the chapter. Critics from classical theism typically engage on whether ascribing a Hyungsang (form/material) aspect to God collapses the Creator/creature distinction or imports a quasi-material element into the divine essence. Lee’s reply, developed further in the homogeneity section, is that Sungsang and Hyungsang are two expressions of one underlying attribute, not two substances — so the partition is conceptual, not ontological dualism. Worth a thread once a counter atomic from a classical-theist source exists.
See also. sungsang-and-hyungsang-as-dual-characteristics-of-god, heart-shimjung-as-core-of-gods-sungsang, original-human-nature-three-fold-framework