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400 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. ²⁸² Harmony with creation is broken: visible creation has become alien and hostile to man. ²⁸³ Because of man, creation is now subject "to its bondage to decay". ²⁸⁴ Finally, the consequence explicitly foretold for this disobedience will come true: man will "return to the ground", ²⁸⁵ for out of it he was taken. Death makes its entrance into human history. ²⁸⁶

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PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH

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CHAPTER ONE: I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER

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ARTICLE 1: "I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY, CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH"

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Paragraph 7. The Fall

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III. ORIGINAL SIN

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282 Cf. Gen 3:7-16.

283 Cf. Gen 3:17, 19.

284 Rom 8:21.

285 Gen 3:19; cf. 2:17.

286 Cf. Rom 5:12.

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