Adam & Eve

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I have been told that Adam & Eve are only fiction characters and that our salvation history begins with Abraham—also there is more fiction in the bible—A priest told us years ago in a homily that the bible is the inspired word of God & to believe every word of it—I believe that Priest before I believe the sister who told me that i have to believe the new theology.
 
Catholics are not sola scriptura. It’s very important to look to the Church for interpretations of the Bible. Remember, the New Testament comes from Catholics.
 
Here read this
Humani Generis
1950
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XII
CONCERNING SOME FALSE OPINIONS THREATENING
TO UNDERMINE THE FOUNDATIONS OF CATHOLIC DOCTRINE
TO OUR VENERABLE BRETHREN, PATRIARCHS, PRIMATES,
ARCHBISHOPS, BISHIOPS, AND OTHER LOCAL ORDINARIES
ENJOYING PEACE AND COMMUNION WITH THE HOLY SEE
 
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I have been told that Adam & Eve are only fiction characters and that our salvation history begins with Abraham—also there is more fiction in the bible.
The Bible is not fiction: it is not a deliberate misrepresentation of reality. However, the text represents things in ways that are not always literal. Determining whether or not a given passage is literal or figurative is something complex enough to have kept scholars busy for many, many centuries. Should you choose to study it for yourself (which I would strongly suggest), you will find many examples of passages which probably do not mean what they appear to mean upon first reading.

As for the historicity of Adam and Eve, I would love to see anyone try to prove it either way.

“Here are Adam and Eve’s bones!”
“Here is Eden, and it was always empty!”

Yeah, right.
 
The Catechism of the Catholic Church takes the view that the events in Genesis are historical events that are presented in representational language / speech, so that we can trust, for example, that there was original sin.

So much of this “fiction” stuff is superficial fluff, since we are looking for the personal and general meaning of scripture. To say that it is fiction is virtually irrelevant to a believer who is looking for what God is saying to them.

The historical critical exegetes (HCE) seem, more often than not, to want to draw attention to their own opinions and beliefs, than to the truths that we get from scripture. As the saying goes, keep your eyes on the ball.

The HCE’s that are the most malignant are those who maintain that not only is scripture not true, but that it couldn’t possibly be true. Therein, they betray the required scientific objectivity which they claim as their cornerstone of analysis.

The late Fr. Raymond Brown (like others of his disposition )dismisses the infancy narratives of the gospels by ***his personal opinion * ** [see his 101 Questions and Answers about the Bible].

An upheaval in astronomy that occurred in the last 25 years deals with the origin of Earth’s moon. The prevailing view was that it formed with the Earth. That idea has been replaced by the idea that a planetoid struck the Earth and the resulting debris formed the moon that we know and love. True science can turn itself on its ear so we might expect such in the area of biblical exegesis. Don’t be afraid to reject the latest bible commentary you run across.
 
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