Garden of Eden Part 224
How do we know that Adam and Eve were married?
They were alone and naked in the Garden of Eden and the only thing that tempted them was a piece of fruit.
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Scripture portrays the tragic consequences of this first disobedience. Adam and Eve immediately lose the grace of original holiness. They become afraid of the God of whom they have conceived a distorted image-that of a God jealous of his perogatives. (Catholic Catechism Par. 399)
The harmony in which they had found themselves, thanks to original justice, is now destroyed: the control of the soul's spiritual faculties over the body is shattered; the union of man and woman becomes subject to tensions, their relations henceforth marked by lust and domination. Harmony with creation is broken: visible creation has become alien and hostile to man. Because of man, creation is now subject "to its bondage to decay." Finally, the consequence explicitly foretold for this obedience will come true: man will "return to the ground," for out of it he was taken. Death makes its entrance into human history. (Catholic Cathecism Par. 400)
They were alone and naked in the Garden of Eden and the only thing that tempted them was a piece of fruit.
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Scripture portrays the tragic consequences of this first disobedience. Adam and Eve immediately lose the grace of original holiness. They become afraid of the God of whom they have conceived a distorted image-that of a God jealous of his perogatives. (Catholic Catechism Par. 399)
The harmony in which they had found themselves, thanks to original justice, is now destroyed: the control of the soul's spiritual faculties over the body is shattered; the union of man and woman becomes subject to tensions, their relations henceforth marked by lust and domination. Harmony with creation is broken: visible creation has become alien and hostile to man. Because of man, creation is now subject "to its bondage to decay." Finally, the consequence explicitly foretold for this obedience will come true: man will "return to the ground," for out of it he was taken. Death makes its entrance into human history. (Catholic Cathecism Par. 400)
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