Editing Utopia (section)

===The Biblical Garden of Eden===

[[File:Apocalypse 38. A new heaven and new earth. Revelation cap 21. Mortier's Bible. Phillip Medhurst Collection.jpg|thumb|right|''A new heaven and new earth'',<ref>{{bibleverse|Rev|21:1|NIV}}</ref> Mortier's Bible, [[c:User:Phillip Medhurst|Phillip Medhurst]] Collection]]The [[Hebrew Bible|Biblical]] [[Garden of Eden]] as depicted in the [[Old Testament]] [[Bible]]'s [[Book of Genesis]] 2 ([[King James Version of the Bible|Authorized Version of 1611]]):

{{poemquote|And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. Out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the [[Tree of life (biblical)|tree of life]] also in the midst of the garden and the [[Tree of the knowledge of good and evil|tree of knowledge of good and evil]]. [...]
And the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. [...]
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; [...] And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman and brought her unto the man.}}

According to the exegesis that the biblical theologian [[Herbert Haag]] proposes in the book ''Is original sin in Scripture?'',<ref>{{cite book |last=Haag |first=Herbert |author-link=Herbert Haag |title=Is original sin in Scripture? |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zO_YAAAAMAAJ |year=1969 |publisher=[[Sheed and Ward]] |location=New York|isbn=9780836202502 }} [[German language|German]] or. ed.: [https://books.google.com/books?id=EnWRSQAACAAJ 1966].</ref> published soon after the [[Second Vatican Council]], Genesis 2:25 would indicate that [[Adam and Eve]] were created from the beginning naked of the [[divine grace]], an originary grace that, then, they would never have had and even less would have lost due to the subsequent events narrated.<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|2:25|NIV}}</ref> On the other hand, while supporting a continuity in the Bible about the absence of [[preternatural]] gifts ({{langx|la|dona praeternaturalia}})<ref>{{in lang|de}} Haag, Herbert (1966). pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=nUMaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22dona+praeternaturalia%22 1, 49ff.]</ref> with regard to the [[Serpents in the Bible#Eden|ophitic event]], Haag never makes any reference to the discontinuity of the loss of access to the tree of life.