Adam and Eve, New Eve

Eve and Adam expelled from Paradise - Didier Descouens

The Church, in authentically interpreting the symbolism of biblical language in the light of the New Testament and Tradition, teaches that our first parents Adam and Eve were created in a state "of [[Saint, Holiness, Sanctification|holiness and original justice" (Council of Trent: DS 1511). This Grace of original holiness was a "participation in the divine life" (LG 2).^[1]

In "The Gospel as Revealed to Me"[edit | edit source]

Adam and Eve, Grace was active in them.^[2]
Eve’s disobedience.^[3]
Her fourfold sin: Pride, greed, gluttony, lust and the fourfold sacrifice of Mary.^[4]
Tempted by impunity.^[5]
To know the forbidden fruit: Parallel between the Temptation of Judas and Eve regarding her desire to know the pythoness's cave at Endor.^[6]
Adam was holy, that is, justice was full in him, and he possessed within himself the Presence of all Virtues because God had poured into his creature the fullness of his gifts.^[7]
(Mary) I am not Eve. I am the Woman of the Ave. I have reversed things. Eve threw into horrible mud what was a thing of Heaven. I accepted everything: misunderstandings, criticisms, suspicions, sufferings to lift from the filthy mud what Eve and Adam had cast there, and lift it up to Heaven.^[8]

In the other works of Maria Valtorta[edit | edit source]

The Notebooks of 1943[edit | edit source]

Dictation of November 28: The first chaste love between spouses, the love as it was supposed to be for humans according to the Creator’s thought, was a love without the sting of senses and without the mud of malice. A love that was both natural and angelic because, according to the creative thought, there had to be in the Soul of Adam and his children the angelic purity of the spirit mixed with human tenderness and, like a flower that blooms without the sin of the stem that carries it, love had to be born in spouses free from the worm of lust, and give children to chaste marital beds. Being chaste does not mean forbidding marital union.

In fundamental Christian texts[edit | edit source]

In the Catechism of the Catholic Church[edit | edit source]

Saint Paul teaches us that two men are at the origin of the human race: Adam and the Christ.^[9]
Our first parents Adam and Eve were created in a state "of holiness and original justice".^[10]
Christ must be known as the source of Grace to know Adam as the source of sin.^[11]
The consequences of that first disobedience.^[12]
Jesus is the new Adam.^[13]
When he incarnated and became man, Jesus recapitulated in himself the long history of men.^[14]
The obedience of Christ restores what Adam’s disobedience had destroyed.^[15]
At his Baptism, the heavens that Adam’s sin had closed were opened.^[16]
Jesus went to fetch Adam from the underworld.^[17]
Just as all die in Adam, all will also be made alive in Christ.^[18]
Just as Eve was formed from the side of the sleeping Adam, so too was the Church born from the pierced Heart of Christ dead on the Cross.^[19]
All the righteous from Adam, from Abel the just to the last elect will be gathered in the universal Church before the Father.^[20]
Blessed is the day of Sunday, for it is in it that the gates of paradise were opened so that Adam and all the banished may enter without fear.^[21]
In those who have been regenerated, nothing remains to prevent them from entering the Kingdom of God, neither Adam’s sin, nor personal sin, nor the consequences of sin, the gravest of which is separation from God.^[22]
Every act directly willed is imputable to its author.^[23]
Sexuality, by which man and Woman give themselves to one another, is not something purely biological, but concerns the human person in what is most intimate.^[24]

Notes and references[edit | edit source]

[1] Catechism of the Catholic Church, 359

[2] EMV 7

[3] EMV 17

[4] EMV 29

[5] EMV 47

[6] EMV 188

[7] EMV 470

[8] EMV 643

[9] CCC 359

[10] CCC 375

[11] CCC 388

[12] (Judea)tiques%20de%20cette%20premi%C3%A8re%20d%C3%A9sob%C3%A9issance CCC 399

[13] CCC 504

[14] CCC 518

[15] CCC 532

[16] CCC 536

[17] CCC 635

[18] CCC 655

[19] CCC 766

[20] CCC 769

[21] CCC 1167

[22] CCC 1263

[23] CCC 1736

[24] CCC 2361

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