Descendants of Adam and Eve mated with pre-humans?

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I don’t know, nor do I care, where you got the “hear only what they want to hear” bit. Not from anything I wrote at any rate. And the point of my saying long quote was that the post used a lot of words and said nothing relevant.
 
buffalo said:
Micro-evolution (aka adaptation) absolutely fits with…Catholicism. Macro does not.
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You say this over and over but to date have failed to produce an authoritative Church teaching showing it. I suspect you’re so passionate that you’ve convinced yourself this is true, but the truth is that macroevolution doesn’t conflict with Christianity and the Church doesn’t teach against it. You can believe what you want, but they’re your beliefs, not Church doctrine.
 
The Church teaches that God guides His creation. It was not Blind Unguided Chance but God’s direct causal involvement.
 
edwest211 said:
It was not Blind Unguided Chance but God’s direct causal involvement.
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The synthesis of ATP, necessary from the very start of metabolic life, the ATP Synthase motor fine tuned and is nearly 100% efficient in cold or warm environments. (by BUC) 😀
 
Did descendants of Adam and Eve mate with pre-humans? The Church says no in Humani Generis and refers to Humani Generis “in continuity” in Communion and Stewardship.

“37. When, however, there is question of another conjectural opinion, namely polygenism, the children of the Church by no means enjoy such liberty. For the faithful cannot embrace that opinion which maintains that either after Adam there existed on this earth true men who did not take their origin through natural generation from him as from the first parent of all, or that Adam represents a certain number of first parents. Now it is in no way apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with that which the sources of revealed truth and the documents of the Teaching Authority of the Church propose with regard to original sin, which proceeds from a sin actually committed by an individual Adam and which, through generation, is passed on to all and is in everyone as his own.[12]”

http://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-x...nts/hf_p-xii_enc_12081950_humani-generis.html
 
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TMC said:
There is none.
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And yet we get the same refain over and over again. It’s confusing to those that don’t know.
edwest211 said:
Did descendants of Adam and Eve mate with pre-humans? The Church says no in Humani Generis
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It doesn’t say no, Ed, and you know it because I’ve seen it explained to you at least three times on this forum. I’m not sure if there’s a term for it, but it has to be some kind of sin to intentionally lie about what the Church teaches.
 
A plain reading of Humani Generis is very clear. No other humans. No humans that did not come from Adam and Eve. And no population of other humans. The actual sin committed by Adam and Eve is Original Sin. We all have it. That is why Christ was born, suffered, died and rose again.
 
Anyone who can trace lineage to Adam is descended from him. This doesn’t mean Adam and Eve’s children didn’t mate with pre-humans. Nothing of that sort is said at all in Humani Generis. The plain reading is that all true men are descended. And they are! Humani Generis actually supports the theory discussed on this thread. At worst it allows for it. By no means does it deny it.
 
Then you’d listen to Pope Benedict.
You’d listen to Cardinal Schoenborn.

But they’re wrong, right?
 
My listenings aren’t the issue. I’ve read plenty of your references already only to find they don’t say what you claim. You make blanket statements of personal belief asserting the Church teaches them, then drop in some reference material that supposedly backs you up but doesn’t. Case in point above. It’s not right and you need to stop. I get that these are your personal beliefs and that’s fine, but you need to be careful about what you claim the Church actually teaches.
 
I was not talking to you. The poster I replied to knows exactly what I mean.
 
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