Cain's Wife - Literal Inerrancy of Genesis
This post was inspired by a discussion between two of my Catenian brothers at a meeting on Monday about the literal truth of the Genesis narrative, I know my brother John sometimes reads my blog, so John if you're reading this--it's inspired by you! Also the first reading at Mass this morning made this doubly pertinent. So the basis of this post is the teaching that the only way that the earth could have been populated was for the children of Adam and Eve to marry each other. God would have protected them from the consequences of this intermarriage so that the human race could be propagated. It is defined Church teaching that all humans are descended from the single pair, Adam and Eve. The Papal Encyclical of Pope Pius XII Humani Generis , promulgated in 1950 teaches that the question of the origin of the human body is open to research by natural scientists and theologians. The pope insists on the careful weighing of the pros and cons of the grounds for its orig...