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pianodwarf:
OK.  So, according to Jesus, if you think about having sex with someone you're not married to, it's the same as actually committing the sin of fornication.  And, presumably, since man was created sinless, this tendency would not occur in man had Adam not eaten the fruit.

So suppose the world were today populated with the non-fruit descendants of Adam and Eve... doesn't that mean, presumably, that we would be getting married to people that we don't want to have sex with, and that the desire to have sex with them wouldn't appear until after the wedding?  I'm kind of wondering how this would work.  Would the reverend say, "I now pronounce you man and wife," and then they'd look at each other and suddenly have the hots for each other, where before there was no libidinous impulse at all?

This is just something that occurred to me recently, and I thought I'd throw it out there to see what other people think.

Nick:
No, If Adam and Eve had not eaten the fruit then they would not of had kids.  The pain of childbirth was part of the fruit thing.  God's creation would have been prefect and He could have taken them to heaven or left them alone forever since death also was a result of the fruit thing.  Sounds kind of boring.

JImmy Carter use to say stuff about lust in the heart when he was president.  Baptists seem to have a hang up with that...but then they have a hang up with a lot of shit.

12 Monkeys:
never mind the wife what about the 13 yr old boy who goes home and furiously masturbates thinking about the 17 yr old girl working at the Dairy Queen......thinking about fornication starts way before you understand what it even is.

Nick:
Going to be a lot of guys in hell. :)

Garja:
I had always interpreted the "pain in childbirth" as: "what would not have been painful, now will be", not "now you are gonna have kids, suck it".

Given that human female anatomy kinda sucks for the purposes of childbirth compared to many animals who, while it may not be a pleasant physical experience, doesn't seem as excruciatingly painful in a "tear from my V to my A" kinda way.

/Conjecture

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