Dogmas regarding Adam and Eve

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I will personally say that I accept the dogmas around Adam and Eve out of faith alone. These dogmas are harder for me to grasp intellectually than others. I don’t think that amounts to “rejection” (I hope it doesn’t, at least) that I don’t understand how the Church does not reject evolution (neither do I) but also dogmatically believes Adam and Eve appeared on the scene (were created by God) and were also endowed with donum immortalitatis , i.e., the gift of bodily immortality.

Help me out, CAF.

 

[RedDuke]

We’re allowed to believe that Adam & Eve’s bodies developed through divinely guided evolution, but their souls were made directly by God. So He breathed souls into their evolved animal bodies.

I think immortality came from the tree of life, which we lost access to after the fall.

 

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I will personally say that I accept the dogmas around Adam and Eve out of faith alone. These dogmas are harder for me to grasp intellectually than others. I don’t think that amounts to “rejection” (I hope it doesn’t, at least) that I don’t understand how the Church does not reject evolution (neither do I) but also dogmatically believes Adam and Eve appeared on the scene (were created by God) and were also endowed with donum immortalitatis , i.e., the gift of bodily immortality.

Help me out, CAF.

What Pope Benedict XVI said:

" We cannot say: creation or evolution, inasmuch as these two things respond to two different realities. The story of the dust of the earth and the breath of God… does not in fact explain how human persons come to be but rather what they are. It explains their inmost origin and casts light on the project that they are. And, vice versa, the theory of evolution seeks to understand and describe biological developments. But in so doing it cannot explain where the “project” of human persons comes from, nor their inner origin, nor their particular nature. To that extent we are faced here with two complementary — rather than mutually exclusive — realities.