This belief is essential to the pro-life movement today.

I disagree that this means conception, "formed could mean developed overtime. I do not necessarily disagree I just do not see enough evidence for conception.

I have heard it taught that marital love is not only a reflection of the creative love of the trinity, but also a participation in that love in a very specific way.

Cyril was the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444.

Luciferianism is a belief system that venerates the essential characteristics that are affixed to Lucifer. The tradition, influenced by Gnosticism, usually reveres Lucifer not as the devil, but as a liberator, a guardian or guiding spirit, or even the true god as opposed to Jehovah. (Spence, L. (1993). An Encyclopedia of Occultism. Carol Publishing.)

I'd be interested to know what the difference is between Luciferianism and Satanism, for it seems that they are different in their definition of who Lucifer is as a character in the overall story of the Bible. This topic would be interesting for Jaron's thesis.

Recent scientific study has found that a spark of light occurs on the cellular level at the moment of conception. It is an interesting discovery in the context of the Catholic view of the soul being created at the moment of conception.

This distinction is important to be made. Christ was not punished as Adam was punished. Perhaps a better word would be sacrificed, Christ was not punished but sacrificed, but there may be a better word still.

Blood and water here also seem to reference the sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist. In those two sacraments, "we are redeemed from punishments and washed clean of our faults." The sacraments should lead us closer to where we were before the fall because of their redemptive qualities.

I believe Lombard is referring to the sacrament of Christ's death and resurrection, from which the Church was formed. I don't think he means to use the word sacrament as we think of it in the context of the seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church. Rather, he might mean sacrament as in a physical sign of a higher reality.

Interesting observation, I'd never thought about whether or not humans could feel pain before the fall. I'd like to explore the punishment aspect of it a bit more. Could they be punished before the fall? Maybe, but they would have had no reason to be, and so punishment would still be something which occurred after the fall. Unless there are such actions for which one could be punished that are not necessarily sins, maybe actions like mistakes?

That question is very fair, and the answer is bound to be different depending on which Christian sect you ask.

This idea connects back to Lombard's ideas in chapter 2.

Yes, women being subservient to men is a repercussion of the fall. God didn't make women subservient from the beginning because God didn't create humans as fallen, he created humans as good and THEN we fell. If humanity had not fallen, women would not have been subservient to men.

I don't think he 's using this as an argument for a factual event, but rather he aims to explain the significance of this literary detail in the story. I'm going to have to think on this a bit more.

I like this idea a lot, reminds me of the "bone of my bone flesh of my flesh" recognition in Genesis as well.

Do we know for certain that God created each angel individually and not using some to derive others?

Humans were created outside the garden and then placed within the garden, foreshadowing that humanity would one day exist again outside of the garden and in the world. Man was also created from the earth, from the substance of what would become the fallen world.

Consubstantial? Is that word applicable in this context?

Maybe the gift is God's favor? God's preference? I also am not convinced of Lombard's arguments here.