Ok, so we know that Catholic seminaries are teaching that the Bible is NOT to be taken as literal truth. New priests are taught that evolution is true. (Actually, they are taught something like "intelligent design", and that the creation myth was just a way for people who didn't have scientific language to explain it.) They are taught that there was a flood in the middle east, ages before it was written down, and that priests used that story to say that God had drowned evildoers. The story grew into the Great Flood. They are taught that there was no Exodus. They are taught that Jesus never raised Lazarus, walked on water, or quieted a storm. I clearly remember one sermon about the "three wise men" that started "You know that there weren't any wise men, don't you? No "kings from the east", no gold, frankincence, or myrrh?" -- I loved that!
>>> But the entire base of Xtianity is the sacrifice of Jesus, to atone for the sin of Adam and Eve. So wait, if evolution is true, there was no Adam and Eve. No talking snake, no apple from the forbidden tree. No Adam and Eve, no original sin, no need for a sacrifice. <<<
I have asked a handful of Catholic priests about this, and have gotten many different responses.
One tried to say that there was an Adam and Eve, the original progenitors of the Hebrews. And this solves the problem of who Cain and Abel married: there really were other people in other towns, where they could go to look for wives. But that doesn't work either, because then "original sin" would only apply to the Jews. So when they have Jesus say, in Matthew 15:24 that "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the nation of Israel" that would be fitting.
Another said that we are all flawed and sinful creatures. The creation myth is simply a way to say that we were made perfect, and that we fell from perfection somewhere along the way, and therefore need a "holy redeemer".
I call BS. I'm going to stand with "no original sin, no need for a sacrifice". In fact, I'm going to go one step further and claim that no amount of blood from any creature can erase sin. If we murder someone, that's on our conscience forever, it is not erasable.
Any thoughts? Does evolution, by itself, negate Christianity?
>>> But the entire base of Xtianity is the sacrifice of Jesus, to atone for the sin of Adam and Eve. So wait, if evolution is true, there was no Adam and Eve. No talking snake, no apple from the forbidden tree. No Adam and Eve, no original sin, no need for a sacrifice. <<<
I have asked a handful of Catholic priests about this, and have gotten many different responses.
One tried to say that there was an Adam and Eve, the original progenitors of the Hebrews. And this solves the problem of who Cain and Abel married: there really were other people in other towns, where they could go to look for wives. But that doesn't work either, because then "original sin" would only apply to the Jews. So when they have Jesus say, in Matthew 15:24 that "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the nation of Israel" that would be fitting.
Another said that we are all flawed and sinful creatures. The creation myth is simply a way to say that we were made perfect, and that we fell from perfection somewhere along the way, and therefore need a "holy redeemer".
I call BS. I'm going to stand with "no original sin, no need for a sacrifice". In fact, I'm going to go one step further and claim that no amount of blood from any creature can erase sin. If we murder someone, that's on our conscience forever, it is not erasable.
Any thoughts? Does evolution, by itself, negate Christianity?
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
