(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.



And when I say free I just mean they can do so without going against Church teaching.