(January 16, 2016 at 4:56 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(January 16, 2016 at 4:49 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote: Catholicism would be one of those, I was raised catholic and never once was I taught to not take the creation story literally or anything in bible for that matter.
Um, no it's not. Perhaps you were raised that way by the people who taught you, but official Catholic doctrine says nothing about the story of Genesis (or any OT story) being required to be taken literally. It is widely accepted and acknowledged in the Church that Genesis is allegorical. As for the other OT stories, a Catholic is free to take all of them either literally or figuratively.
The story of creation is allegorical? For what?
