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Biblical Myths? I have a professor who says, Adam and Eve were just myths, and that the rest of Genesis was all just legends The Church has always taught that Adam and Eve were real people and were the first human beings from whom all other beings are descended. In 1950, Pope Pius XII, in Paragraph 37 of an encyclical entitled Humani Generis, states, "...the faithful cannot embrace that opinion which maintains either that after Adam there existed on this earth true men who did not take their origin through natural generation from [Adam] as from the first parent of all, or that Adam represents a certain number of first parents."

Legend In other words, the Church teaches that all humanity descended from Adam and Eve. They had to be real for this to happen. Paragraph 38, states: "This [encyclical], in fact, clearly points out that the first eleven chapters of Genesis...do nevertheless pertain to history in a true sense..." Again, Adam and Eve are not myths, and the rest of Genesis is not legend. They are history in a "true sense. Paragraph #39: "Therefore, whatever of the popular narrations have been inserted into the Sacred Scriptures must in no way be considered on a par with myths or other such things..." Can it be stated any clearer than that? And listen to what the Catechism says, Paragraph #375, "The Church...teaches that our first parents, Adam and Eve..." No mention of a myth here.

Theologians Paragraph #404: "By yielding to the tempter, Adam and Eve committed a personal sin. Someone please tell me, how do myths commit personal sins? Adam and Eve are not myths. Genesis does not contain in it myths or legends. That is Churchs teaching. Challenge anyone, who teaches differently, to produce their sources from a magisterial document. They cant do it. They can, however, produce countless books and articles by "theologians". That isnt good enough what credentials do the theologians have?