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such as mankind now experiences, God put Adam
in the paradise of Eden . This name "Eden" literally
means "pleasantness" or "delight" . God afterward
gave the man a wife, whom God made from
a part of man's own body. She was a perfect human
soul, the same as her husband Adam, privileged
to share with him the delights and pleasantness
of that garden of Eden . In this garden they
could live forever in ideal happiness with all their
sons and daughters, whom they could bring into
this earth as perfect human souls . To that end
God gave them his fatherly blessing, not his condemnation
. "And God blessed them, and God said
unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish
the earth, and subdue it : and have dominion over
the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air,
and over every living thing that moveth upon the
earth."-Genesis 1 : 28.
s All this disproves the religious lie that God
could not produce anything on earth but wretched,
miserable, imperfect creatures, and that all this
world of matter is simply an evil development and
the best thing for us to do is to try to make
our escape from it forever, and that to be restored
to life on this earth in the new world would
be a hard burden . God condemns the imperfect,
wrong condition that has come to exist in the
flesh . For this reason in the world to come he
will people this earth with innocent, perfect men
and women. He will not permit any other kind of
6 . What religious lie does this disprove, and what conditions
of life on earth will God produce in the new
world?