[daniel1212]

Every year (usually around Easter) you can see nonsensical programs on TV that offer alternative theories to Old and New Testament passages. One regarding the Great Flood showed land giving way (releasing the Black Sea?), which caused a flood that locals assumed “covered the Earth”. The Pharaoh’s men pursuing the Jewish people were overwhelmed by high tides.

And RC scholarship likewise abounds with such, as in the notes in the NAB study Bible exposed here , relegating literal OT historical accounts - which the NT treats as so - to being "fables and "folk tales." Including (as seen the Vatican's NAB bible footnote) the account of the origin of the Moabites and Ammonites in Gn. [19:30–38] :

This Israelite tale about the origin of Israel’s neighbors east of the Jordan and the Dead Sea was told partly to ridicule these ethnically related but rival nations and partly to give popular etymologies for their names. The stylized nature of the story is seen in the names of the daughters (“the firstborn” and “the younger”), the ease with which they fool their father, and the identical descriptions of the encounters.

[kearnyirish2]

Sure; “catholic” scholars have been trying (even before Vatican II) to soften the messages of both the Old and New Testaments; they ignore Christ’s references to Sodom & Gomorrah, and they particularly ignore His ending statements: “Go now, and sin no more”.

They’ve erased the concept of “sin” itself.