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1 TheWay,1| blessings the first man Adam had while he was sinless,
2 TheWay,1| happiness. God, having created Adam in His image and likeness,
3 TheWay,1| being all-just, created Adam sinless and pure. Being
4 TheWay,1| all-blessed, He created Adam blessed also, and this blessedness
5 TheWay,1| book of Genesis states, Adam lived in the most beautiful
6 TheWay,1| to him as their master. Adam suffered neither cold nor
7 TheWay,1| Creator with his whole heart. Adam was always calm and happy
8 TheWay,1| own beloved son. In brief, Adam was in Paradise, and Paradise
9 TheWay,1| Paradise was within him.~If Adam had not sinned, he would
10 TheWay,1| God had created man. But Adam, having succumbed to the
11 TheWay,1| fruit. When God appeared to Adam right after he had sinned,
12 TheWay,1| right after he had sinned, Adam, instead of repenting and
13 TheWay,1| the lack of repentance of Adam and Eve. The existing communion
14 TheWay,1| Paradise within himself, Adam became unworthy of the external
15 TheWay,1| After the fall into sin, Adam’s soul darkened: his thoughts
16 TheWay,1| the ability to influence Adam and to further alienate
17 TheWay,1| which had previously served Adam as a means to happiness,
18 TheWay,1| hostile to him. From then on Adam and all his descendants
19 TheWay,1| upon them as enemy or prey. Adam’s descendants began to suffer
20 TheWay,1| could ever restore what Adam lost when he sinned in Eden.
21 TheWay,2| of people, beginning with Adam and including all future
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