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As is common in your posts on this thread, you ignore everything that determines what a passage means, to latch onto a falsehood. It has been demonstrated sufficiently for all objective readers.

And yet catholics deny the literal account of Genesis 1. There is nothing symbolic about Genesis 1. If you don't get this right, you have a hard time getting the rest right.

God himself created the visible world in all its richness, diversity and order. Scripture presents the work of the Creator symbolically as a succession of six days of divine "work", concluded by the "rest" of the seventh day.204....CCC 337

And if that isn't enough, they even allow for believing in evolution! And don't say catholics don't.....remember...we have the internet.

And then there's this from the catechism.....more denying the literal account of what happened in Genesis.

The account of the fall in Genesis 3 uses figurative language, but affirms a primeval event, a deed that took place at the beginning of the history of man.264 Revelation gives us the certainty of faith that the whole of human history is marked by the original fault freely committed by our first parents.265 CCC 390

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s2c1p7.htm

So were Adam and Eve really tempted by Satan?

Was Satan really more crafty than any beast of the field?

Perhaps, from the catholic perspective, the curses by God were "figurative" in nature....not real.

If you don't get the foundation right, the whole house is built on sinking sand.

Waiting for figurative to be redefined in 3....2....1