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The Earth was Cursed Because of Adam’s Sin

Source MV - Epistle of St Paul to the Romans:

235 “The world is populated; rather, it has been populated from the beginning by unreasonable
creatures and by reasonable creatures. Populated not so there could be many of every species, but
because many were the species of the unreasonable creatures, and above these, was the pair of the
two creatures endowed with reason and with a spiritual and immortal soul, very different from the
one which is called ‘living soul’ in Chapter 1:30 of Genesis and which was not but the breath for
which in the Book, it is written of them who ‘had breath in their nostrils.’ And all things that had
been made were ‘good’ to the judgment of the same God Creator who is absolute and perfect
Goodness. They were ‘very good.’ Of what goodness: Only that of serving as an aid to man in
cultivating Eden, or as food, or as a delight? That is, of a passive goodness because that is what they
had to do, or of a servile goodness towards man, a creature different from every other because of his
erect position, the magnificence of his walk, the beauty of his face, the power of his actions and
voice, for that dominion peculiar to a reasonable being which manifests itself in his secure will, in his
decisive command, in his capacity of rewarding or punishing justly all things which command the
inferior being to a natural subjection? No. They were ‘very good’ because they were still lacking in
savageness, and wickedness and cunning; and the lion dwelled with the young sheep, and the wolf
with the lamb, and the leopard with the kid, and the young ones of the bear gazed with those of the
mare, just as it transpires from verse 19 of the second chapter of Genesis, when it is said that Adam
familiarly stays with all the animals of the earth and of the air, by giving a name to them all, without
suffering an insult from the most ferocious ones amongst them, nor without striking fear in any of
them since they were good and they felt instinctively that man, too, was “good’, who would not have
punished them without having had a motive to do so; and so, too, as Isaiah predicts that it shall be,
when ‘the knowledge of the Lord,’ that is, the kingdom of the spirit will have truly filled the Earth.
(Isaiah XI:6-9) Then Adam sinned and the Earth was cursed because of him, and from amongst the
many tribulations which she [the Earth] bore to the fallen man, because he made himself in
subordinate to God, was that of the insubordination of the inferior creatures towards him. And he,
besides drawing with toil his daily nourishment from the Earth that had become cursed, had to
struggle to defend himself from the animals that were no longer good, rebellious towards him as he
towards the Creator, enemies amongst themselves because the disorder had by now established its
kingdom, which will last until the coming of the day of the Lord and of his kingdom, and heaven and
earth as they are now will disappear and there will be a new heaven and a new Earth, Apocalypse
21:1 and the suffering of creatures will end. Because the day and the eternal kingdom will truly have
come for all the children of God who, until that day, will always have to struggle, sigh and groan, so
as to generate the ‘son of God’ from themselves, born as such not ‘of blood nor of the will of the
flesh,’ but for having received the divine Life, by having received the Word made Man, He of whom
Isaiah writes, repeating the words of the eternal Word, ‘I have redeemed you and have called you by
[your] name: you are mine, I am your Savior. All those who call my Name, I have created them for my
glory, I have formed them, I have made them, and again, they are my people, children who will not
deal falsely.’”

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