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To: Alex Murphy
ROTFL!

Why don't you read the article by Paula Haigh I referenced earlier? You might enjoy it. I'm sure none of her extremely loud co-religionists on this forum will so much as look at it.

55 posted on 09/19/2011 1:46:57 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
And there are Catholics who promote the Church Fathers' view on the first 11 chapters of Genesis.

The Doctrines of Genesis 1–11: A Compendium and Defense of Traditional Catholic Theology on Origins by Fr Victor P. Warkulwiz

59 posted on 09/19/2011 1:54:59 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
"Why don't you read the article by Paula Haigh I referenced earlier?"

I've read that article and quite a number of her other writings as well. She is quite prolific. The difference between me reading it and you reading it is I did not approach it with a closed mind and an intent to find or fabricate fault.

60 posted on 09/19/2011 1:55:05 PM PDT by Natural Law (For God so loved the world He did not send a book.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
Why don't you read the article by Paula Haigh I referenced earlier?

Done and done. I had troubles with the sudden shift in discussion, starting on page 12 with Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson, away from evolution per se and towards that of "the religion of the Antichrist". But despite that shift, there is little debate that the Catholic Church has wholeheartedly embraced the evolutionary model a priori over and above the Genesis account, requiring only the token addition of a "divine spark" to baptise atheistic evolutionary theory into divine history, much as it purportedly changed a beast into the Image of God:

There was no debate then, in 1950 [i.e. in the encyclical Humani Generis by Pope Pius XII], nor very much before that, over the evolution of the human body from apelike creatures. And certainly none since has been allowed mainly because both before and after 1950, the acceptance of human evolution – as long as God did it and infused the human soul at the appropriate moment – was quite strongly entrenched. I attribute this astonishing situation to the fact that Vatican Council One failed to condemn evolution as a heresy contradicting Scripture but succeeded in defining the dogma of Papal Infallibility.
It is no wonder then, that the Catholic Church can simultaneously claim that the whole of Scripture is inspired, and yet individual words aren't:
While Catholics believe the Bible is inspired by the Holy Spirit and that it is true, one cannot take individual biblical quotes or passages and say each one is literally true, Pope Benedict XVI said....

....The commission of biblical scholars, an advisory body to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, met at the Vatican May 2-6 to continue discussions about “Inspiration and Truth in the Bible”....

....In his message, the Pope said clearer explanations about the Catholic position on the divine inspiration and truth of the Bible were important because some people seem to treat the Scriptures simply as literature, while others believe that each line was dictated by the Holy Spirit and is literally true. Neither position is Catholic, the Pope said.
-- from the thread How to Read the Bible as a Catholic


66 posted on 09/19/2011 2:18:15 PM PDT by Alex Murphy (Posting news feeds, making eyes bleed: he's hated on seven continents)
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