Copyright © 2006 By Doug Lawrence. All Rights Reserved.
Catechism Of The Catholic Church Reprinted With Permission.
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Larceny In The Garden of Eden
(Volume 1 - Part 1) -
Commentary By: Doug Lawrence
The ancient Biblical record of the earliest events in the life of man tells the story
from two different points of view. One account tells us, in very general terms, of
the creation of the heavens and the earth and of all living things.
Genesis 1:26 And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let
him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the
beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the
earth.
The other tells us the specifics of the creation of humanity, how God personally
hand-crafted Adam and Eve, Blessed them and made all earthly things subject to
them.
Creation was almost certainly the greatest "Family" Craft Project
of all time (our time, not God's time). As near as we can tell, God
the Father served as "design architect", God the Son, who would,
interestingly enough, become a carpenter during His human life
on earth, served as "craftsman" (John 1:3 all things were made by
Him) and the Holy Spirit provided all the necessary "power".
Genesis 2:7 - 8 And the Lord God
formed man (Adam) of the slime of the
earth: and breathed into his face the
breath of life, and man became a living
soul. And the Lord God had planted a
paradise of pleasure from the
beginning: wherein he placed man
whom he had formed.
Genesis 2:15 - 17 And the Lord God took
man, and put him into the paradise of
pleasure, to dress it, and to keep it.
And he commanded him, saying: Of
every tree of paradise thou shalt eat:
But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat. For in what day
soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death.
Genesis 2:21 - 24 Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he
was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it. And the Lord
God built the rib which he took from Adam into a woman: and brought her to
Adam. And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she
shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man. Wherefore a man
shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two
in one flesh.
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