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To: RnMomof7
Could you please produce the magisterium infallible teaching on genesis and the creation story??Please cite the source of the document.
Here's the last magisterial word on whether Adam is mythical or real:
[T]he faithful cannot embrace that opinion which maintains that either after Adam there existed on this earth true men who did not take their origin through natural generation from him as the first parent of all or that Adam represents a certain number of first parents.... [O]riginal sin ... proceeds from a sin actually committed by an individual Adam ...
Humani generis, Pius XII, August 12, 1950. (Emphasis added).
84 posted on 04/23/2015 1:06:42 PM PDT by eastsider
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To: eastsider; RnMomof7; Alex Murphy
Here's the last magisterial word on whether Adam is mythical or real:

[T]he faithful cannot embrace that opinion which maintains that either after Adam there existed on this earth true men who did not take their origin through natural generation from him as the first parent of all or that Adam represents a certain number of first parents.... [O]riginal sin ... proceeds from a sin actually committed by an individual Adam ...

Humani generis, Pius XII, August 12, 1950. (Emphasis added).

It is not the last word so long as Catholic bibles with the "nihil obstat" and "imprimatur" continue to teach in the commentary that Adam and Eve are myths and to teach the groundless and blasphemous documentary hypothesis.

Besides, once again you are avoiding the real issue. Pius' quote deals only with a theoretical "adam," not the Biblical Adam, who was a very specific individual, created on the Sixth Day, husband of Eve (who was taken from his side), father of Cain, Abel, Seth, and their sisters, and who died at the age of 930. Catholics may very well believe in a theoretical "adam" taught by science, but they do not believe in the Adam who is written of in Genesis. Do you get it now?

You Catholics attack Protestants for not interpreting John 6 literally. Of course, a literal John 6 has negative implications for Protestantism (and in fact I acknowledge that it is the historical chrstian position). But Genesis doesn't have any negative implications for Catholicism. Why then are Catholics so uniformly and implacably hostile to it?

86 posted on 04/23/2015 2:28:14 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The "end of history" will be Worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
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To: eastsider

That is not an infallible papal or magisterial proclamation. It is simply a “current” position of Rome. Subject to change. Simply man’s opinion


99 posted on 04/23/2015 5:50:39 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: eastsider

That is not an infallible papal or magisterial proclamation. It is simply a “current” position of Rome. Subject to change. Simply man’s opinion


100 posted on 04/23/2015 5:50:53 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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