Sentences with phrase «original state of innocence»
He recognised that the redemption won by Christ's death was greater than the original state of innocence, for it brought humanity to an intimacy with God that they had not know in Eden.
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St John Paul indicates of life after the Fall: «The body is not subordinated to the spirit as in the state of original innocence.
Were Adam and Eve, in their state of original innocence, so in tune with the world around them that they would have had premonitions of all such impending disasters and — much like the reported animal behaviour prior to the impact of the Tsunami — simply run to the hills?
In their state of original innocence Adam and Eve walked with God in the cool of the evening; but through disobedience sin entered the world, and through sin death.
The constant reference point for married life and vocation which Pope John Paul presented throughout his 1979 - 1984 catechesis was «marriage constituted in the beginning, in the state of original innocence, in the context of the sacrament of creation» (Theology of the Body, 338).
«This harmony, that is precisely purity of heart, enabled man and woman in the state of original innocence to experience simply... the uniting power of their bodies, which was, so to speak, the unsuspected substratum of their personal union or communio personarum» (ib.
On the other hand, while shame «reveals the moment of lust, at the same time it can protect from [its] consequences... It can even be said that man and woman, through shame, almost remain in the state of original innocence.
Then the shame of that nakedness, which they had not felt in the state of original innocence, will spring up in their hearts... Only the nakedness that makes woman an object for man, or vice versa, is a source of shame.
In John Paul II's analysis of the first chapters of Genesis, he describes the state of «original innocence», in which the man and the woman are free to perceive the full reality of the person of the opposite sex without the «shame» that arose after the first sin.