WE ARE TO BELIEVE THAT IN PARADISE OUR FIRST PARENTS BEGET OFF-SPRING WITHOUT BLUSHING - GENERATION WITHOUT LUST -

In Paradise, then, man lived as he desired so long as he desired what God had commanded. he lived in the enjoyment of God and was good by God's goodness; he lived without want and had it in his power so to live eternally. He had food that he might not hunger, drink that he might not thirst, the tree of life that old age might not waste him. There was in his body no corruption nor seed of corruption which could produce in him any unpleasant sensation. He feared no inward disease and no outward accident. Soundest health blessed his body, absolute tranquility his soul.

As in Paradise there was no excessive heat or cold so its inhabitants were exempt from the vicissitudes of fear and desire. No sadness of any kind was there nor any foolish joy; true gladness ceaselessly flowed from the presence of God, who was loved out of a pure heart, and a good conscience and faith unfeigned. The honest love of husband and wife made a sure harmony between them. Body and spirit worked harmoniously together and the commandment was kept without labour. No languor made their leisure wearisome; no sleepiness interrupted their desire to labour.

In such happy circumstances and general human well-being we should be far from suspecting that offspring could not have been begotten without the disease of lust but those parts, like all the rest would be set in motion at the command of the will; and without the seductive stimulus of passion with calmness of mind and with no corrupting of the integrity of the body the husband would lie upon the bosom of his wife. Nor ought we not to believe this because it cannot be proved by experiment. But rather, since no wild heat of passion would arouse those parts of the body but a spontaneous power according to the need, would be present, thus we believe that the male semen could have been introduced into the womb of the wife with the integrity being safe, the menstrual flow of blood can be emitted from the womb of a virgin. To be sure, the seed could be introduced in the same way through which the menses can be emitted.

In order that not the groans of labour pain should relax the female organs for parturition but rather the impulse of the fully developed foetus, thus not the eager desire of lust but the normal exercise of the will, should join the male and female for breeding and conception.

We speak of things which now shameful and although we try as well as we are able to conceive them as they were before they became shameful, yet necessity compels us rather to limit our discussion to the bounds set by modesty than to extend it as our moderate faculty of discourse might suggest. For since that which I have been speaking of was not experienced even by those who might have experienced it - I meant our first parents (for sin and its merited banishment from Paradise anticipated this passionless generation on their part) - when sexual intercourse is spoken of now, it suggests to man's thoughts not such a placid obedience to the will as it conceivable in our first parents but such violent acting of lust as they themselves have experienced. And therefore modestly shuts my mouth although my mind conceives the matter clearly.

But Almighty God, the supreme and supremely good Creator of all natures who aids and rewards good wills while He abandons and condemns the bad and rules both, was not destitute of a plan by which He wisdom had foreordained even out of the condemned human race, discriminating them not now by merits since the whole mass was condemned as if in a vitiated root but by grace and showing not only in the case of the redeemed but also in those who were not delivered, how much grace He has bestowed upon them.

For every one acknowledges that he has been rescued from evil not by deserved but by gratuitous goodness when he is singled out from the company of those with whom he might justly have borne a common punishment and is allowed to go scathless. Why, then, should God not have created those He foresaw would sin since He was able to show in and by them both what their guilt merited, and what His grace bestowed, and since, under His creating and disposing hand even the perverse disorder of the wicked could not pervert the right order of thing?

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -