serpent seks & law be fruitful & multiply deaths?!


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IT
follows
that PAUL
would be making
a much stronger
statement
- but also
a much more
"localized" one -
about
the relation
between sin and
the Law?


IF
the sin
of Adam
and Eve
was sexual
- either
the discovery
of sexuality
itself
or
a change
in the nature of sexuality -,
a view
that was held
throughout much
if not most
of ancient interpretation -
then
it was the positive commandment
to have children
that led them
into it,
through
the occasion of Sin's
(the Serpent's)
manipulations!


THEY
had been
commanded
to procreate
but also to avoid
sexual
desire?


No wonder
that the Serpent (SIN)
was able to exploit
the commandment
to cause them
to sin!


WITHIN
any interpretation
that begins
with the assumption
that sexuality
is sinful,
as it certainly was
for many Jews and Christians
in late antiquity,
the blessing of procreation
is going to be a logical
and hermeneutical conundrum,
as witness the myriad difficulties
of the socalled
Church Fathers
in sorting out
the sequence
of events
here ...


Adam's
double bind,
commanded
on the one hand
to procreate
and
on the other
to avoid eating
of the fruit of the tree
of (carnal) knowledge,
is the type of Jewish humanity
under the flesh,
commanded
to procreate
but also to not have
lustful desires,
let alone
act on
them?



The
Christian,
however,
can conquer
his desires and bear fruit
for "G*D".



On
THIS reading,
Paul's references to
"bearing fruit,"
whether for 'g*d', i.e.,
spiritual fruit in verse 4,
or for death, i.e.,
children in verse 5,
are precisely
an allusion
to the commandment:
BE fruitful
& multiply,
of
GEN 1:
28.
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