Did Adam and Eve Really Exist?

Crisis Magazine ^ | November 24, 2014 | DENNIS BONNETTE

[NYer]

Ping!

[rjsimmon]

Yup.

Next question?

[PROCON]

Yes, and it wasn’t Adam and Steve...

[Zionist Conspirator]

More double-talk “please both sides” rhetoric from Catholic “theistic evolutionists.”

[UCANSEE2]

What I want to know is did they speak English ?

[Zionist Conspirator]

First, Church teaching about Adam and Eve has not, and cannot, change.

Considering that the current "theistic evolutionist" teaching of the Church itself represents a change from previous doctrine, the above statement is nothing but a lot of hooey.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

If you don’t believe Genesis 1:1 then you won’t believe in the rest of the Bible.
Freegards
LEX

[Resettozero]

Yep. That’s them in that picture. I’d recognize them anywhere. That be them.

(Everyone will have to decide for himself whether the Book of Genesis is true fact or just poetry. I believe it is poetic, factual, AND entirely true.)

[allendale]

This nonsense should not be confused as Catholic doctrine. No legitimate Catholic theologian, rational Catholic, or Church dogma accepts a literal interpretation of the Genesis stories. Fundamentalists are on their own.

[Resettozero]

Which church do you mean?

[Hugin]

First, Church teaching about Adam and Eve has not, and cannot, change.

Once you take that position, you have left the realm of science, be it global warming alarmists or creationists.

[PaulZe]

So let me get this straight if we are to believe the first chapter of the book of genesis as factually and scientifically true ...then we also have to believe the earth is flat because that is after all what chapter one of the book of genisis describes.

[Resettozero]

This nonsense should not be confused as Catholic doctrine. No legitimate Catholic theologian, rational Catholic, or Church dogma accepts a literal interpretation of the Genesis stories. Fundamentalists are on their own.

Gonna have to quote you on this in the future. It's a keeper, alright.

Thank you for your honesty. It is refreshing on a FR RCC religion thread.

[Verginius Rufus]

The Biblical account has one pair of human beings, from whom all later humans descend, disobeying a commandment of God. What difference would it make if the original group was 100 human beings, who all disobeyed the commandment, and from whom all later humans were descended?

When Copernicus's theory of the solar system was published, many Christians rejected it as contrary to the Bible. Nowadays just about everyone accepts that Copernicus was right to say that the earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the sun, despite some verses in the Bible that suggest otherwise.

Is the exact number of human beings who caused original sin any more essential than the names of the rivers in the Garden of Eden?

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Yep. That’s them in that picture. I’d recognize them anywhere. That be them.”

Who did their hair and makeup for the photoshoot?

[lexington minuteman 1775]

I don’ t see the flat earth.In the first chapter there is a seperation of night and day and the land from the seas.
Butthe essense of Genesis 1:1 is that there is a CREATOR and that Creator is God. And He created out of the void something of majesty to behold. Freegards
LEX

[I still care]

I remember when the first genetic mitochondrial RNA studies came out that yes, there was an “Eve” - and there was a NOVA special on it.

Half the Nova special was how they figured all the genetics was traceable back to one particular woman.

The other half was them insisting this did NOT mean the story of Adam and Eve could be true. IMHO it was actually unintentionally hilarious.

[usual suspect]

Adam and Eve were the first White people:-)

[Verginius Rufus]

Genesis 1.2 says that the earth was “without form,” so it doesn’t specify a shape.