Theology of the Body

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Theology of the Body

• Lecture 4
• The Fall and the Consequences of Original Sin

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Original Experience

• Original Harmony
• Faculties of the Soul
• Intellect
• Will
• Passions
• State of Grace
• Practically
• Emotional Integrity
• Adam and Eve felt right emotion at right time.
• The passions were always subordinate to the
  intellect and will.
• Adam would have never let his physical desire
  overcome his appreciation for Eve as a person in
  her own right.
• Eve would never have manipulated Adam for her own
  personal satisfaction.

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The Negation of Gods Fatherhood

• Gen 31-5
• Doubt serpent seduces Eve into thinking she
  cannot trust God.
• Implication God is withholding Himself from
  you.
• Master / Slave God is not your Father but a
  Master seeking to dominate and enslave man by his
  laws.
• Consequences
• Man feels driven to fight against God to achieve
  freedom.
• Man is led into servile fear of God.
• Servile Fear vs Fear of God
• JPII
• In order to be set free from this servile fear,
  modern man must cultivate an authentic fear of
  God.
• Fear of God
• A love of a son for his father.
• Filial concern that seeks to do the will of the
  Father out of love for him.
• Christ is the example

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Effects of Original Sin

• Consequences
• Spiritual Death
• Rom 323 Loss of the indwelling of the Holy
  Spirit.
• This presence made them children of God and gave
  them eternal life.
• Physical Death
• Rom 512 suffering, sickness and death make
  their entrance into history.
• Disintegration of the Powers of the Soul
• Intellect presents reality (headlights)
• Darkened
• Will chooses or decides (steering wheel)
• Weakened
• Emotions propels or pushes (accelerator)
• Disordered
• Concupiscence
• The propensity or inclination to sin

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Effects between Men and Women

• Sexual Desire
• Gen 37 desire has become inverted and
  self-seeking
• Gods Plan of Love
• Love turns to use
• Men ordered toward achievement
• Gen 215 to till and keep.
• Gen 316 He will dominate you.
• Tempted to use women to get physical pleasure,
  sense of achievement.
• The sexual gratification or conquest at the
  expense of the relationship.
• He will use the woman to get gratification, even
  if he doesnt care about her good / fulfillment.
• Women ordered toward relationship
• Gen 218 it is not good for the man to be
  alone.
• Gen 316 Your desire will be for the man.
• Tempted to use men to get emotional affirmation /
  satisfy emotional needs.
• Women want to feel they are wanted / needed. To
  get self-esteem, to feel beautiful, or as an
  antidote to loneliness.
• She will use the man to get a relationship, even
  if she doesnt care about his good / fulfillment.

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How to Overcome

• Truth
• To understand human life according to Gods plan.
• Grace of God
• Prayer
• Resolve to set aside time every day for prayer
• Sacraments
• Means for us to draw closer to Him through
  participation in His divine life.
• Eucharist
• Confession
• Virtue
• Definition the firm and habitual disposition to
  do the good.
• Concupiscence
• Our emotions have become disordered and often
  impel us towards evil.
• Virtue
• Integrates and directs the passions to pull us
  away from what is evil toward what is good.

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How to Overcome

• Difference between good person virtuous person
• Situation
• Young man is with girlfriend and they become too
  passionate. The young man stops and tells his
  girlfriend that what they are doing is wrong.
• Good Person stops what they are doing but is
  not necessarily happy about it.
• Virtuous Person stops what they are doing and
  is joyful about it.
• How to acquire virtue
• Hard work and perseverance
• Checking resist impulses for what is not good.
• Commanding focus mentally on the pleasing
  aspects of the good acts and the displeasing
  aspects of the bad acts.
• Acting do what is right regardless of what your
  feelings tell you.
• Examining reflect on your impulses and actions
  to see what your weak areas are.
• Practice
• Fortitude
• Despair

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