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278 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
thousand years of time it was to be brought everywhere
to the perfect state of cultivation that obtained
in the paradise of Eden, and to be fully enjoyed
by perfect human inhabitants .
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God revealed this to be his purpose to perfect
man. He informed man that he was to have a
part in it. Toward the end of the sixth creative day
God completed the human couple by creating a
wife for Adam, to be his perfect helpmate, bone
of his bones and flesh of his flesh . "And God created
man to his own image : to the image of God
he created him : male and female he created them .
And God blessed them, saying : Increase and multiply,
and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule
over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the
air, and all living creatures that move upon the
earth ." Genesis 2 :18-25 ; 1 :27,28, Douay Preliminary
to filling she earth with their perfect human
kind, they must subdue the earth outside of
Eden. Subduing it for comfortable human living
meant extending the boundaries of Paradise to the
extremities of the land surface of the earth . A
Paradise of life!
3 Cain, Abel, and Seth, the named sons of Adam
and Eve, never had a chance to join with them in
enlarging the paradise . Before ever they were
born their perfect parents sinned and the great
Lawgiver and Life-giver judged them and sentenced
them to death and drove them out of the
paradise of pleasure . Paradise was a home for
sinless perfect humans to live in forever, and that
2 . How did God reveal to man that this was his purpose?
3. For what creatures was paradise the place? So what
proper symbolism did God place in its midst?