Post by stephentlig on Oct 16, 2010 17:27:14 GMT
Hey all I am a student at this college and at the moment, we are studying the Old Testament. Our teacher is saying that the Book of Genesis is just a mythical legend. Meaning it contains some truth but not all of it is true.
However the church does not teach this and I needed to run around the internet to prove it so here is an excerpt from one of the best sources you can get these days. It is catholicscomehome.org as advertised on EWTN catholic network and the response is from a Catholic apologist. If you happen to be at Mater dei or any other institute for that matter that claims to carry the Catholic stamp and yet teaches this nonsense, I'd advise you to speak up about it and dont just let it sit.
Many who are doing the course are doing it with the intention of putting the knowledge they receive back into the local parish. Thus we can see that if the church isnt careful and fails to stamp this dangerous fire out, it could be opening its doors to a whole new era of abuse, one in which the faith of the laity will be rocked and shaken.
The teacher is teaching a heresy known as ''Higher Criticism'' which can be looked up on www.newadvent.org
Pax Christi
Stephen
www.catholicscomehome.org/answers-scripture.php
''I had a theology teacher who told me that adam and eve were just myths, and that the rest of Genesis was all just legends...is that what the church teaches?"
"Absolutely not! The Church has always taught that Adam and Eve were real people and were the first human beings from whom all other human beings are descended. In 1950, Pope Pius XII, in Paragraph 37 of an encyclical entitled Humani Generis, states, "...the faithful cannot embrace that opinion which maintains either that after Adam there existed on this earth true men who did not take their origin through natural generation from [Adam] as from the first parent of all, or that Adam represents a certain number of first parents." In other words, the Church teaches that all humanity descended from Adam and Eve. They had to be real for that to happen.
Paragraph #38, states: "This [encyclical], in fact, clearly points out that the first eleven chapters of Genesis...do nevertheless pertain to history in a true sense..." Again, Adam and Eve are not myths, and the rest of Genesis is not legend. They are history in a "true sense."
Paragraph #39: "Therefore, whatever of the popular narrations have been inserted into the Sacred Scriptures must in no way be considered on a par with myths or other such things..." Can it be stated any clearer than that?
And listen to what the Catechism says, Paragraph #375, "The Church...teaches that our first parents, Adam and Eve..." No mention of a myth here.
Paragraph #404: "By yielding to the tempter, Adam and Eve committed a personal sin. Someone please tell me, how do myths commit personal sins?
Adam and Eve are not myths. Genesis does not contain myth or legend. That is Church teaching. Challenge anyone, who teaches differently, to produce their sources from a magisterial document. They cannot do it. They can, however, produce countless books and articles by "theologians". Not good enough."
However the church does not teach this and I needed to run around the internet to prove it so here is an excerpt from one of the best sources you can get these days. It is catholicscomehome.org as advertised on EWTN catholic network and the response is from a Catholic apologist. If you happen to be at Mater dei or any other institute for that matter that claims to carry the Catholic stamp and yet teaches this nonsense, I'd advise you to speak up about it and dont just let it sit.
Many who are doing the course are doing it with the intention of putting the knowledge they receive back into the local parish. Thus we can see that if the church isnt careful and fails to stamp this dangerous fire out, it could be opening its doors to a whole new era of abuse, one in which the faith of the laity will be rocked and shaken.
The teacher is teaching a heresy known as ''Higher Criticism'' which can be looked up on www.newadvent.org
Pax Christi
Stephen
www.catholicscomehome.org/answers-scripture.php
''I had a theology teacher who told me that adam and eve were just myths, and that the rest of Genesis was all just legends...is that what the church teaches?"
"Absolutely not! The Church has always taught that Adam and Eve were real people and were the first human beings from whom all other human beings are descended. In 1950, Pope Pius XII, in Paragraph 37 of an encyclical entitled Humani Generis, states, "...the faithful cannot embrace that opinion which maintains either that after Adam there existed on this earth true men who did not take their origin through natural generation from [Adam] as from the first parent of all, or that Adam represents a certain number of first parents." In other words, the Church teaches that all humanity descended from Adam and Eve. They had to be real for that to happen.
Paragraph #38, states: "This [encyclical], in fact, clearly points out that the first eleven chapters of Genesis...do nevertheless pertain to history in a true sense..." Again, Adam and Eve are not myths, and the rest of Genesis is not legend. They are history in a "true sense."
Paragraph #39: "Therefore, whatever of the popular narrations have been inserted into the Sacred Scriptures must in no way be considered on a par with myths or other such things..." Can it be stated any clearer than that?
And listen to what the Catechism says, Paragraph #375, "The Church...teaches that our first parents, Adam and Eve..." No mention of a myth here.
Paragraph #404: "By yielding to the tempter, Adam and Eve committed a personal sin. Someone please tell me, how do myths commit personal sins?
Adam and Eve are not myths. Genesis does not contain myth or legend. That is Church teaching. Challenge anyone, who teaches differently, to produce their sources from a magisterial document. They cannot do it. They can, however, produce countless books and articles by "theologians". Not good enough."