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Wednesday, July 17, 2019

St. Gregory of Nyssa ~ before the fall





   This is an important question—what did it mean for Adam and Eve before the Fall to be fruitful and multiply in the Garden? It’s a basic teaching of the Fathers that marriage as we know it, and childbearing as we know it, are realities from after the Fall.[20] St. Gregory of Nyssa says that man would have multiplied in some other way that we don’t know.[21] Man’s life in the Garden was much more spiritual. We had physical bodies but even they were lighter and in some way more spiritual. We didn’t have bodily passions or needs, and this includes sexual passions. They just weren’t there. 


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http://orthochristian.com/94295.html

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