Thanks for the comments. To be honest when I found tradition and realized that there was a body of [revelation] that we had to accept in [order(?)] to be Catholic I found the Adam and Eve part a bit hard to accept. I was hoping I could give this individual a decent answer to their query so they won't suffer any serious doubts.
Our "public education" system today is so thoroughly steeped in the false religion
of evolutionism, it would seem to be
almost part of our genetic makeup. The
same goes for the ideological disease of Modernism: one of its symptoms is you
don't know you're infected! These things have a spiritual aspect, yes, but they
also have a kind of temporal corporality, a material being, a solid physical aspect.
The devil is Prince of This World, and he knows well how to work temporal nature
into our way of thinking, such that it affects our spiritual intellect.
When you take preschool children and start teaching them that man came from
apes or monkeys, how can you blame them for thinking that's the "truth" when
they get to be older? How can you blame them for placing all of their experience
in life under the tinted lens, the
false religion of evolutionism? As such, and
under such a framework of perception, the doctrine of original sin becomes
nothing more than a fairy tale, which you can believe or reject as unsupported
gibberish. This same habit, then carries on to other spiritual things: look at Thorn
and Fatima, for example.
Right now on the radio, they're playing a bunch of Jєωιѕн songs. I think it's
because of Rosh Hashanah ("High Holidays" Sept. 16-18). Why don't we hear
Marian hymns around August 15th on the radio? I guess I should be content with
Christmas music starting in late October and ENDING on Christmas Day!? (They
should START on Christmas and carry on to February 2nd! - Candlemas, not
"Groundhog Day")
Therefore, that said, it seems to me that you're coming from a place of incredulity
yourself, and therefore you are at a loss to convincingly communicate the
doctrines that you're hoping to relate, "so they won't suffer any serious doubts."
IOW you're not really in a position to give a credible witness. If you don't
thoroughly believe it yourself, how can you expect your listener to accept the
truth when it's behind a veil of doubt, so to speak?
Can you imagine buying a vacuum cleaner or a used car or a water purifier from
a salesman who subtly doubts that it is a reliable design or a useful purchase?
I would recommend finding a good, traditional priest, and offering him your friend
as a student or a convert who needs catechism lessons. There are other matters
to address as well, and it could very well be that you are only aware of this one.
The priest would be able to discover the others, and get your friend on the right
track. This is so very important, especially today with all the heresies afoot. There
is no shortage of so-called Christians who deny the divinity of Our Lord, for
example. One would think, how could they call themselves "Christian" like that?
I know a rather pathetic "Christian" who uses "Jesus" and "St. Michael"
interchangeably. He's in that habit because he knows some Jehova's Witnesses
or whatever, and that's how they talk. We are creatures of habit, and the devil
uses that to the hilt!