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We next consider what belongs to the bodily state of the first man: first, as regards the preservation of the individual; secondly, as regards the preservation of the species.

Under the first head there are four points of inquiry:

(1) Whether man in the state of innocence was immortal?

(2) Whether he was impassible?

(3) Whether he stood in need of food?

(4) Whether he would have obtained immortality by the tree of life?

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Aquinas's monumental systematic theology examining whether sacred doctrine is a science, God's existence and nature, divine attributes, moral philosophy, and the full range of Christian doctrine through rigorous philosophical and theological reasoning.

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