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To: Campion
While I am not a chr*stian, it is quite maddening that the “unchanging” Catholic Church used to believe the “first Adam” was a real as the “second Adam,” but now the “first Adam” was merely a literary form.

That's completely false and you bear false witness when you repeat it.

Are you sure you aren't thinking of "Billy Bob's Glory Barn?"

As I noted to arrogantbustard above, whatever "Adam" the Catholic Church believes in is a theoretical first human being, not the individual who was created on the Sixth Day and died at the age of 930. That's just a "literary convention."

Besided--don't you know that people can't live that long?

137 posted on 11/06/2008 11:46:21 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Vehe'min beHaShem; vayachsheveha lo tzedaqah.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

No, Adam is not a theoretical first human, he is the real first human. Not a literary device, a real person.

The same one talked about in the Bible. In allegory.


138 posted on 11/06/2008 11:49:57 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: Zionist Conspirator
As I noted to arrogantbustard above, whatever "Adam" the Catholic Church believes in is a theoretical first human being

Nope, he really existed, therefore he's not theoretical.

No amount of quibbling over details can convert a real person into a theoretical person.

139 posted on 11/06/2008 11:56:50 AM PST by Campion (Impeach Obama Now!)
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