(June 16, 2015 at 12:37 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Just free to determine whether they believe the OT stories are allegorical or literal.And when I say free I just mean they can do so without going against Church teaching.
This isn't quite right. Even if a Catholic were to take the events in Genesis 2 and 3 figuratively, the church mandates that believers adhere to the literal belief of Adam and Eve as first parents of all humanity and that some sinful event transpired resulting in original sin.