Cardinal Pell's Bombshell on Q&A

[agath]

I'm surprised no one seems to realise the significance of Pell's public admission that Adam & Eve (and other events) are a fiction.
This means the New Testament of the Catholic Church is a fairy story; and the supposed credibility of the Catholic Church is destroyed.
This is why it is unbelievably significant ...........

If Pell is flagging Church action in moving towards denial of the Old Testament's Adam & Eve and their transgression in the Garden Of Eden, which led to the imposition of Original Sin on them; and upon all mankind throughout history and into the future, irrespective of race, religion, geography and time - it is a catastrophic step for the Catholic Church.
This is the biggest 'own goal' that will ever be kicked in theological history.

The whole basis of Christianity - The New Testament - is that Jesus Christ came down on earth, as The Savior, to die to save mankind from its sins.
The main sin (not coveting someones ass, or not going to Mass, or worshipping false gods etc) is Original Sin.
That's the reason why the Church has Baptism (to expunge original sin).

But if the Church is now saying that Adam & Eve, The Garden Of Eden, The Tree of Knowledge, the eating of the Apple and Original Sin are all allegories, parables or metaphors - that is, events that never took place -
then the supposed actual appearance of Jesus Christ on earth to die to save us all from a sin that never occured, commited by people who never existed is a lie that has been peddled for 2000 years.
It is without argument, ipso facto, a fiction.

The real effect of what Pell has said has made the Church guilty of a theological, philosophical and logical absurdity.

What will now be regarded as fact by all - since Cardinal Pell, to the public, is the major face of Catholicism in Australia and therefore enunciating Church policy - is that the New Testament, treated all this time as absolute incontrovertible fact for two thousand years, and the whole basis of Christianity - is a fantastical fabrication; and that the Catholic Church is a deception.

This is the most cataclysmic religious revelation in two thousand years.