1. Adam and Eve. In the beginning, God created our bodies to be very good (Gn 1:31). They had a pure relationship with each other full of love, generosity and passion. God blessed them with fertility and gave them the tremendous gift of caring for all his creation. There was no such thing as shame because they had perfect love. There was no need to cover themselves because there was no fear of being seen as an object to be used. The original sin of Adam and Eve brought humanity into a new world of selfishness, suffering, shame, lust and death. If we can understand the beauty of God’s original plan and the barren reality of original sin, we can appreciate the amazing benefits of following God’s plan for our lives rather than our own.


John Paul calls the time before the first sin of Adam and Eve: Original Man. After original sin, the era is called historical man.


Adam’s experience of isolation (being without Eve): Original Solitude.


When God originally designed us, sexual desire was the desire to love in ...

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