Claim. Adam’s unfallen family should have established the original historical tradition of husband, wife, son, and daughter under God’s love.
Elaboration. SMM says that without the Fall, human beings would have been born as “God’s true sons and daughters” and no one could have severed their relationship of love with God (CSG 4.1 §8, Blessed Family 330). In that world, “the first family of heaven” would have prospered under God’s sovereignty, immune to Satan’s slanders. The section specifies the tradition that was lost: Adam and Eve should have received the blessing, established God’s nation, and founded “the traditions of the husband, of the wife, of the son, and of the daughter” (Blessed Family 331-332). Restoration seeks a family tradition because the Fall disrupted a family tradition.