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After re-entry to the Garden of Eden becomes impossible, the first thing Adam and Eve do is to have sex.* Since that day sex has been used and abused to selfishly try and grasp at the connection that has been lost with our creator or to simply gratify a need in us.

But this is not the way sex was created to be.

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The NIV Bible translation has a very subtle way of talking about two people having sex: they use the word 'lay'.* Adam lay with his wife Eve... Cain lay with his wife... Adam lay with his wife again... (and just so you know it wasn't just the first humans doing this) Elkannah lay with Hannah his wife.**

Each time, perhaps in case you're confused about what is really happening, a child results from this "lay" activity.

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