Too bad the bishops can’t just say that we’re all descended from Adam and Eve. After all, to them Adam and Eve are just “myths.”
Got to remember that anything taken in the literally is taken as. “Bible-believing Protestant”
I was a roman catholic as a child. I got some sacrament or other. With it came a copy of the new testament, but no Five Books of Moses. I wonder why.
Please see post number 7. Thank-you!
This is a too-common misconception. The Catholic Church teaches that the entire human race is descended from that one original couple: this dogma is called Monogenism.
Pope Pius XII addressed this in the 1950 encyclical Humani Generis. He said that it was “in no way apparent” how to reconcile polygenism (multiple original ancestors as in evolution) with divine revelation. Here is the full quote:
When, however, there is question of another conjectural opinion, namely polygenism, the children of the Church by no means enjoy such liberty. For the 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 from the first parent of all, or that Adam represents a certain number of first parents.Now it is in no way apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with that which the sources of revealed truth and the documents of the Teaching Authority of the Church propose with regard to original sin, which proceeds from a sin actually committed by an individual Adam and which, through generation, is passed on to all and is in everyone as his own.
The Catholic Church teaches the literal existence of a literal couple, Adm and Eve, as the first parents of the human race.
And by the way, 50+ years ago my entire Catholic Confirmation class was required to each own a copy of the whole Bible, all 73 books. Do you have that?