Monogenism and Original Sin

[grannymh]

All it proves is that Paul believed that Adam was one man.

To use Paul in support of this claim, you’d have to demonstrate that Paul somehow had more information about Eden than we have.

One of the better reasons I belong to the Catholic Church is that I can pray in peace, appreciating the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, without having to demonstrate that Paul somehow had more information about Eden than we have.

Why do I need to reinvent the wheel when specific doctrines regarding our own origin, our own nature, and our own goal to be in joy eternal with God have already been properly defined according to the protocol of the visible Catholic Church on earth?

 

[edwest2]

All it proves is that Paul believed that Adam was one man.

To use Paul in support of this claim, you’d have to demonstrate that Paul somehow had more information about Eden than we have.

Nice try. No cigar.

“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]”

Source: Humani Generis

Peace,
Ed