Adam & Eve, The Big Bang of Mind. A reflection of a Catholic worker, this…
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A reflection of a Catholic worker, this article is written in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

There are no common Catholic resources out there that humbly describes the Genesis of our parents, Adam and Eves, given all the archeological findings throughout the world up to this year, the COVID-19 year. We want to show Catholics and Christians that Christianity still has the answers. Concerning the Catholic faith, we decline to represent the global church community as this writing is not intended for that purpose.

What we know from the Genesis

As a Catholic, we know the Church does not teach the narration of the genesis. She teaches the occurrences in it that are crucial.

What are some ridiculous things about a common picture of Adam & Eve?

They are white , as painted by Europeans.

, as painted by Europeans. They are not of this world. Eden is a different dimension .

. They ate apples .

. God spoke to them in a language that we are familiar with.

What do Catholics believe in the Genesis? Here are some of them:

We are their descendants.

They committed sins.

They are created in His image.

God intended to give them authority over the creation.

God wants to gift them eternal life.

How? No one knows. That’s why we should appreciate archeologists.

Our imagination could be a bit off or a lot.

The Church never knows how tall they are, how big they are, what they did daily, and if they could even talk a proper language, I don’t think so. We also did not know how they sinned. While Saint Paul emphasized so much about the death of sins and the fall of Adam and Eve, Jesus did not seem to talk a lot about Adam.

I am personally leaning toward the possibility of them facing God in His presence and was given a pure and divine consciousness, but their flesh just ignored the call of love and leaving God’s presence in their own choice.

How? Of course, no one knows. Since we don’t know, I hope we do not condemn them as if they are a criminal or a serial killer. Their original sins might be only a very tiny venial sin we do every day. If we compare them to our Lord and Lady, who did not sin at all, they are different, but formal language and writings did not exist anyway at that time.

Attitude

Thanks to all the Church leaders who are now calming the faithful segments, who took the Genesis literally, now we can talk peacefully about evolution that enhances our faith, not undermine it. First and foremost, two components are so crucial for the sake of healthy discovery.

First, humility to learn and to be potentially wrong. Second, rebasing our mind onto a healthy theology.

Without the first, one will only deny everything that did not fit into their own information. Without the second, the information presented here might go to million routes that cause various social issues. I would use Aquinas as a good basic theology to start, not as a stop.

120,000 Years Ago

If you are not familiar with the archeological work, you could first watch this video to familiarize yourself with the matter.

It seems like the world is perplexed by the sudden existence of homo sapien. We know that all of us came at one point from the African continent by DNA sampling and archeological findings. Some Jewish and scientific communities were trying to calculate the year Adam and Eve lived. I would say ~120,000 years ago is a good number to remember.

Now those who took the hierarchy in Matthew and Luke very seriously don’t get shocked. First, this year is simply an approximation, but the point is, there is an overlap year between Adam and Eves in the Mathematical equation. However, we did not know how long the other ancient humans lived. It could be 50 years. It could be 100. It could be more. Realistically, it does not make sense to think about their reproduction activities as our daily routine right now. It might take them 200 years to build a small family, unlike us in 2020, who can expand millions of lives within a year.

52,000–70,000 Years Ago

Homo sapiens, or modern humans, left Africa for Australia. This made me think that Adam and Eve must be before this occasion because otherwise, the Aborigins in Australia are not humans like us.

~60,000 Years Ago

We’ve found a sudden proof of human consciousness, skills, different brain activities. It is important not to mark this year as the start of human consciousness, and it was merely the earliest record found in caves.

What did the heck happen?

It seems like history is quite clear. The Father created this material world through the big bang or whatever came before to create a sustainable creation that led to various evolutions on earth. The evolution came from Hydrogen, microbe, to fish, to dry animals, mammal, and later ape, and became a homo species. There were plenty of homo species in the last millions of years, but they were not human like us. They had no rational intellect. They were similar to chimpanzees.

For example, the modern human who migrated from Africa to Europe found another humanoid that looks like us humans, the Neanderthals, but they were not rational animals. They were not modern humans. After a while, all human species died, but Homo Sapiens. It might be surprising to us to think about another human-like being like us who are not human, but I think thousands of years ago, humans might not even ask this question. As a side note, I am not trying to promote the possibility that God gave a breath of life to another human species (Adam went to sleep, like what JP2 wrote in the theology of the body) before taking them back and giving them to our ancestors. It is beyond the scope of this article.

The Big Bang Of Mind Could be The Moment of God Sending a Living Spirit onto Adam & Eve.

Scientists are trying to figure out why on earth there was a sudden change that created Homo Sapien. Out of a sudden, they started showing pride, jewelry, respect, technology, and critical analysis.

As a Christian, I think we know the answer.

Unlike most paintings, I don’t believe a human was created by a God that took the form of human and collected dirt and molded him and blew a real wind into his nostril. I believe God, the Trinity, who is Spirit, created the world from the beginning to aim for this divine purpose without much interference because His creation works out automatically in its majestic.

It is possible that the Holy Spirit took actions between 60,000–150,000 years ago to pick one of the best version of evolved creatures on earth to be the leader of this earth and gave them Spirit (the wind), so we can become a god (His image, divinized through Christ), so we rule with him so that we can love Him (True participant).

I believe the earth and the stars were just a mere tool the Father created as a land of progress that leads to Homo Sapiens, us humans. * Please read our article about Trinitarian activities.

About Death

Looking at history, it is important to notice death has always been around. So when we look at the fruit of knowledge’s consequence, I don’t think it is fair to conclude the death presented was a bodily effect. Although most Christians believe it is about spiritual death, sometimes we still associate our bodily death to sins because Jesus’ conquering death was by dying. While it is true that He wants us to live forever, such life is only possible through the merit of Eden's 2nd fruit, the fruit of life or Christ Himself. So, therefore, the bodily death of Adam and Eve were directed caused not by sin but because they were not given the fruit of life. Also, Jesus told us, He will resurrect all men on the judgment day, the sheep and the goat, both will be separated and regained their eternal life, one as a condemnation, and one as perpetual merit.

Our Lady of Guadalupe

I am not writing this to act as a teacher, but knowing our Lady of Guadalupe who cared for indigenous people, I felt this morning of my rosary to write something about the true indigenous people, our ancestor, to hope one not get confused by scientific results that did not put our faith into the equation.