"Each human person is willed by God for his own sake. Human life is good in and of itself — it is not a means to an end. Life is sacred, and we cannot put a price on it. Each person is unique and unrepeatable; someone chosen by eternal Love.
"By giving themselves away, Adam and Eve were able to discover this truth about each other. In their first meeting, Adam found Eve, and Eve found Adam. He accepted her as a unique person, willed by the Creator for her own sake, reflecting the image of God in her femininity. And she accepted him in the same way — as a unique person reflecting the image of God in his masculinity.
"The person is affirmed in the acceptance of the gift, made possible by the nuptial meaning of the body. This mutual self-giving, first manifested in God's self-giving love, is the basis for the communion of persons. This joyful communication explains why Adam and Eve existed in a state of original happiness. Though this was a short-lived period in human pre-history, comprising only a few verses of Genesis, it is full of implications for the theology of the body. Most particularly, it reveals the nuptial meaning of the body as a gift given in the freedom of love."
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