Our actions have consequences. Adam and Eve learned this the hard way; their disobedience resulted in their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Ever after, the temptation that Eve underwent from Satan has come to be seen as the type for all sins, as St John says in his first epistle, it was born from the “lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life” (1 Jn 2:16). This infection of the whole of the human person—mind, body, and will—has dire ramifications, death, and is passed on from generation to generation.
Yet, even amidst this seemingly darkest moment, God had a plan. Although all seemed lost, God was working to restore all things. The Lateran has a fitting counterpart to the expulsion of Adam and Eve: Christ’s crucifixion, the culminating event of salvation history.
God’s Providence has been at work from the start. Adam and Eve were not forsaken, and neither was the Good Thief. This should give you great hope and consolation.
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