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Creation
Touch creation and one touches Christ Himself by whom and for whom all things were made! Article XIII goes on to declare that creation was "out of nothing." By this phrase the fathers mean to emphasize that there was nothing outside of God out of which He framed the worlds. Creation is an act of the
But while it has ever been the doctrine of the Church that God created the universe out of nothing by the word of his power, which creation was instantaneous and immediate, i.e., without the intervention of any second causes; yet it has generally been admitted that this is to be understood only of t
The Genesis record is a historical account of the work God did in creating all things, man included. The creation of man was not a continuation of the animals, as evolution would teach, but a separate divine act. Of the animals we read, "Let the sea bring forth abundantly the moving creatures . . .
Bearing in mind that the words: bara and ktizein, mean literally: to cut, cut off, we would interpret the act of creating as that act of Jehovah whereby He by an act of His omnipotent will cut the things off His eternal counsel, thereby called them into existence, not as if they now exist independen
The unbeliever, because of his unbelief, he reads the Scripture and he studies the Scripture, let us say, but he always corrupts it and pollutes it and profanes it. God intended that this account of the origin of the world be for us and for our children, that we may learn how the world came to
Creation, Parables
Creation Creation of All Things The name Genesis, from the Greek translation of the O.T. known as the Septuagint (Seventy) and so symbolized LXX, means birth, origin, beginning. Genesis in the Hebrew Bible is called Bereshith, which literally means, “in beginning.” It is a word without an article
Creation is the miracle whereby God gave existence to creatures which are separate from his own divine being. and yet entirely dependent upon Him. Creation is that act of God whereby He gave existence to creatures separate from His own divine being, and yet entirely dependent upon Him. Before c
We have noted that God was creating mediately when he made man and did so with recourse to already existing stuff. The Bible says that this stuff was "dust" -- for we read: "The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground," and there is added, "and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; an