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This Dispensation has often been called the age of innocence due to the fact that at this point sin had not entered into the human race. Let us examine some biblical truths concerning this Age of Innocence. REMEMBER, these Dispensations BUILD ON THE PREVIOUS ONES& THE NEWER DO NOT DESTROY THE OLDER IN PRINCIPLE! (Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.) I. MAN WAS COMMANDED TO REPLENISH THE EARTH THROUGH THE MARRIAGE UNION -Consider: 2:23-24 Cf. Mark 10:7-9 -This is a timeless principle& God has never altered this command. It is still God s desire for men and women to marry and bare children! -Look at the trouble caused by child bearing outside of marriage (Isaac & Ishmael). Sarah and Hagar! II. MAN WAS GIVEN RESPONSIBILITY AND COMMANDED TO WORK (2:15) -God has always had the idea that man should work! -God never has condoned nor recommended idleness! -Man is more fulfilled when he is working. -Ecclesiastes 5:12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. -When man shuns work& worse things come upon him. 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