Claim. The natural world is God’s pedagogical museum of love — Adam and Eve were meant to grow up observing paired creatures and learning, without being taught, how to love their own spouse.

Elaboration. §3.3.2 names creation’s didactic purpose explicitly: “From the perspective of the standard of true love, Adam and Eve were to grow up observing and learning from the natural garden of love created within the pair system… The creation is God’s veritable museum, the museum of love for the education of Adam and Eve” (3.3. The world of creation is a museum of love for humankind, 201-161, 1990.3.30). The pedagogy works without instruction: “When Adam and Eve came to be aware that the whole world was composed of paired relationships, they were to realize that they could not live alone. Anyone can see that even deer and cows exist as male and female… they did not need to be taught what they had already come to know” (ibid, 246-58, 1993.3.23). The implication is that nature itself preempts sex-education, marriage-counseling, and even doctrine — when the museum is read rightly, love’s order is self-evident. The Fall is the failure to learn what creation was actively teaching.

See also. csg-nature-as-textbook-of-love