CCC 400
Profession of Faith›SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS›CHAPTER ONE I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER›Paragraph 7. THE FALL
The harmony in which they had found themselves, thanks to original justice, is now destroyed: the control of the soul's spiritual faculties over the body is shattered; the union of man and woman becomes subject to tensions, their relations henceforth marked by lust and domination. Harmony with creation is broken: visible creation has become alien and hostile to man. Because of man, creation is now subject "to its bondage to decay". Finally, the consequence explicitly foretold for this disobedience will come true: man will "return to the ground", for out of it he was taken. Death makes its entrance into human history.
Footnotes
- Cf. ⇒ Gen 3:7-16.
- Cf. ⇒ Gen 3:17, ⇒ 19.
- ⇒ Rom 8:21.
- ⇒ Gen 3:19; cf. ⇒ 2:17.
- Cf. ⇒ Rom 5:12.