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To: george wythe
You can find my beliefs in the Catholic Catechism.

So that means that you believe that God created life, that God created man?

358 posted on 04/23/2003 8:52:42 PM PDT by gore3000
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To: gore3000
You have also not answered my points about your statements against Genesis and Christ's statements in the Bible.

Second Request

Would you kindly quote my "statements against Genesis and Christ's statements in the Bible."

If you cannot find those false quotes, you should apologize for your false witness.

Are you a Christian or a fibber?

364 posted on 04/23/2003 9:03:38 PM PDT by george wythe
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To: gore3000
As I said several times before, I believe that organic evolution is the best theory currently available to explain the origins of the human body.

God could have used many methods to create my body, and at present, it seems that organic evolution is the best theory available.

My soul is a different matter. My soul was not inherited from my parents, therefore my soul was created directly by God before I was born.

Catholic.com says:

Concerning human evolution, the Church has a more definite teaching. It allows for the possibility that man’s body developed from previous biological forms, under God’s guidance, but it insists on the special creation of his soul. Pope Pius XII declared that "the teaching authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions . . . take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter—[but] the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God" (Pius XII, Humani Generis 36). So whether the human body was specially created or developed, we are required to hold as a matter of Catholic faith that the human soul is specially created; it did not evolve, and it is not inherited from our parents, as our bodies are.

368 posted on 04/23/2003 9:10:46 PM PDT by george wythe
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