Location of where Adam and Eve first lived

[adamhovey1988]

Hello,

My son asked me today in what part of the country did Adam and Eve live. In other words, where was the Garden of Eden in our world atlas?

Thank you,

Some folks think Jackson County, Missouri. Not sure why.

 

[anon67074017]

Because Scripture clearly teaches that all men come from a single pair. Consider Gen. 2:5: “There was not a man to till the ground”. Also Eve is said to be “mother of all the living” (Gen. 3:20).

Similarly, the book of Wisdom calls Adam the first-formed father of the earth (Wis. 7:1).

St. Paul speaking before the Areopagus declares that he made from one man all the nations of the earth (Acts 17:26).

It’s not really disgusting, because it’s hard to find an exact precept from the natural law that would ban it. It’s rightly repudiated by almost all peoples, but it seems, that if it comes from the natural law, that it is a conditional natural law (do not have relations with close kin if there exist sufficient number of others more distant).

See above. Scripture most clearly does teach this.

Benedicat Deus,
Latinitas

I believe that is the Scripture is referring to Adam and Eve as the symbolic and spiritual parents of humanity. I refuse to believe what you are saying about literal creationism.

 

[Latinitas]

I believe that is the Scripture is referring to Adam and Eve as the symbolic and spiritual parents of humanity. I refuse to believe what you are saying about literal creationism.

This position is condemned by the Church, repudiated by the fathers, and contrary to Scripture (see above, also cf. 1 Chr. 1:1 et seq.). The 1909 Decree of the Pontifical Bible Commission reckons the unity of the human race as a fundamental truth of the Christian faith. Unity of the human race has always been understood as referring to this point, and one must understand the truths of faith in the very same sense in which they have been understood. It is also of note that the First Vatican Council intended to raise this to a dogma, indicating that it was the mind of the Church that this is truth of faith proper, not merely a theological conclusion. This is not “literal creationism” (I assume you mean “young earth creationism”), but a truth of faith has handed on in the Scriptures and Tradition.

Link to the 1909 PBC decree: catholicapologetics.info/scripture/oldtestament/commission.htm.

Just as a note: Pohle, Tanquerey, Garrigou-Lagrange etc. consider this point to be certain and proximate to faith (sententia fidei proxima). Ott is more reserved, but still lists it as theologically certain.

Benedicat Deus,
Latinitas

 

[anon67074017]

This position is condemned by the Church, repudiated by the fathers, and contrary to Scripture (see above, also cf. 1 Chr. 1:1 et seq.). The 1909 Decree of the Pontifical Bible Commission reckons the unity of the human race as a fundamental truth of the Christian faith. Unity of the human race has always been understood as referring to this point, and one must understand the truths of faith in the very same sense in which they have been understood. It is also of note that the First Vatican Council intended to raise this to a dogma, indicating that it was the mind of the Church that this is truth of faith proper, not merely a theological conclusion. This is not “literal creationism” (I assume you mean “young earth creationism”), but a truth of faith has handed on in the Scriptures and Tradition.

Link to the 1909 PBC decree: catholicapologetics.info/scripture/oldtestament/commission.htm.

Just as a note: Pohle, Tanquerey, Garrigou-Lagrange etc. consider this point to be certain and proximate to faith (sententia fidei proxima). Ott is more reserved, but still lists it as theologically certain.

Benedicat Deus,
Latinitas

I refuse to concede to you on a topic that makes me really uncomfortable.