Was Adam representitive of the entire human race?

[minkymurph]

Spelling is not overly important, then?

I’m being picky because examiners are notoriously picky about such things, and it’s unwise to develop bad habits which might thwart one’s plans.

Plus, we do have that little “edit” button down there…

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit and the highest form of ignorance but actually examiners over here don’t get their underwear in a twist about spelling. Not because they don’t think it’s important, they just think there are other things that are more important like how you’ve understood what you have read and how your personal spirtituality has developed as a result of your studies. I’ve never lost more than 1% for spelling in an essay as I make up for it in so many other ways. Let me ask you a question. Do you have an honest desire to develop spirituality in others or do you just like to nit pic?

 

[CatsAndDogs]

I could ask by what authority you correct but that would be petty. I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt and assume your someone who means well and not a Pharasee. You may not be asking me to degrade something I greatly treasure. That does not mean it will not happen if I subject it to internet scrutiny. Truth cannot overide truth because it does not need to. Truth can never be antagonistic to truth. Truth can never contradict truth. If someone receives a personal revelation from God, it cannot be contrary to the INFALLIBLE teaching. If it where, God would be fallible, and God is not fallible. I don’t know what I said that gave you the impression that personal revelation would overide what the Church states as infallible.

I agree truth cannot be contradicted by truth.

Let me rephrase: If someone receives a personal revelation from some demon who has convinced the person receiving it that he (the demon) is “from God”, and the received personal revelation counters a truth deemed “infallibly true” by the Church, is that person justified in holding to their received revelation as truth?

The answer, obviously, is no. No need for you to answer me on this, unless you disagree.

However, not everything the Church says is infallible. The Church does not however say that everything it says is infallible. There are theological opinions that at present, the Church has no definite teaching. When the Church has not stated something infallibly, we are free to believe what we choose. At least that’s how I read the Catechism. The Church has stated infallible doctrine regarding the special creation of man, special creation of the soul, and sin and redemption. I dispute none of this. I am entitled to form philosophical opinions based on evidence of my own, when the Church has not declared it as infallible doctrine. I hope this puts this to bed but I have a feeling it won’t.

I absolutely agree with you here!

 

[Jean_Anthony]

This thread is closed. Thank you all.