FOr Catholics: IF Genesis is not true?

Question

If Geneis is not true, when did sin and death enter the Earth

and how is it man's fault and why send Jesus to save man from it,
if man did not eat any fruit in a garden which did not exist as Gensis is just allegorical?

What truths do they tell if they are not true

Sorry for bashing, but from similar questions i feel that catholics don't bleeive that geneis is literally true, but a necessary mythology,
it's no myth, so i ask the question, if no adam, then when did sin and death enter the earth?

Answer 1

Catholics believe Genesis is true but not neccessarily factual.

The Catholic Church talks about the Fall in this way:

The account of the fall in Genesis chapter 3 uses figurative language, but affirms a primeval event, a deed that took place at the beginning of the history of man. Revelation gives us the certainty of faith that the whole of human history is marked by the original fault freely committed by our first parents.

If we assume that the theory evolution is true, the scenario might happen like this. A manlike being is slowly evolving. At some point God gives these beings a soul

These human beings lived in complete “original” holiness. They loved God with all their heart, with all their soul, and with all their mind. They loved their neighbors as much as they loved themselves.

Then the first human beings disobeyed God, choosing to follow their own will rather than God's will. This was the Original Sin.

Consequently, they lost the grace of original holiness and sin became universally present in the world.

Besides the personal sin of the first human beings, original sin describes the fallen state of human nature, which affects every person born into the world, and from which Christ, the "new Adam," came to redeem us.

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 390 and following: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt1art1p7.htm#390

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

As the Catholic Church teaches, it is true in that it contains that which the author intended to convey.

From the CCC:

390 The account of the fall in Genesis 3 uses figurative language, but affirms a primeval event, a deed that took place at the beginning of the history of man. Revelation gives us the certainty of faith that the whole of human history is marked by the original fault freely committed by our first parents.

Where do you get the idea that we believe that Genesis is not true???

Answer 3

it entered with the disobedience of Adam and Eve, to which every man was born with this original sin on their soul.

Answer 4

Um...... we do believe in Genesis. I really don't know where you're getting your sources from, because this one is quite faulty. But yes, we do believe that some of the stories in the Bible don't happen exactly like they're told, but do tell of truths.