The Divine Principle reads Genesis 3 as an account of premature and misdirected love: Eve's relationship with the archangel Lucifer, and then with Adam before either was mature, transmitting a false lineage to everything that followed. It is a reading with medieval and Korean precedents but the movement states it more directly than most. Everything downstream depends on it — the emphasis on sexual purity, the centrality of marriage, the notion that the fall can be reversed by getting a marriage right. Christian critics answer that the text will not carry the weight; the movement answers that the conventional reading has never explained why the consequence was inherited.