Here is a compilation of various resources for Catholics and other Christians to begin digging into the perennial beliefs regarding the historicity of the creation story laid out in the First Book of Moses. A lot of this was originally sourced by Gideon Lazar but I have tweaked some things and added imbedded links to all of the works cited. This is not a finished product and will continue to be a work in progress. I hope that people find this interesting and helpful.
Fathers and Doctors of the Church
Saint Theophilus of Antioch
Letter to Autocylus, Book II Chapters 10-32 (x)
Saint Irenaeus of Lyons
Adversus Haereses (specifically Book V Chapter 23)
Origen of Alexandria
Homilies on Genesis
Saint Victorinus
On the Creation of the World
Saint Ephraim the Syrian
Commentary on Genesis
Saint Basil the Great
Homilies on the Hexaemeron
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
On the Making of Man
Saint Ambrose of Milan
Hexaemeron, Paradise, and Cain and Abel
Saint John Chrysostomos
Homilies on Genesis
Saint Augustine
Confessions, Books XI and XII
On the Literal Interpretation of Genesis
City of God, Books XI-XVI
Selpicius Severus
Sacred History
Venerable Bede
The Reckoning of Time, Chapter 66
Saint John of Damascus
Exposition on the Orthodox Faith, Book II (x)
Saint Bonaventure
Breviloquium, Parts II and III
Collations in Hexaemeron
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars Questions 44-46, 65-74, 90-92, and 102
Conciliar Magisterium
Council of Carthage (AD 419)
Canon 109
Fourth Lateran Council (AD 1215)
Confession of Faith
Council of Trent (AD 1545-1563)
Session IV, Decree concerning the use of the Sacred Books
Session V, On Original Sin
Professio Fidei
Catechism of Trent, On the Production of Man (pg 42)
Second Vatican Council (AD 1965)
Dei Verbum, Chapter III
Roman Martyrology
December 25th
Papal Magisterium
Pope Leo XIII
Arcanum Divinae, Paragraph 5
Providentissimus Deus
Pope Benedict XV
Spiritus Paraclitus
Pope Ven. Pius XII
Divino Afflante Spiritu
Humani Generis
Pope Saint John Paul II
Laborum Exercens, Chapter IV
Evangelium Vitae, Chapter 34-36
Pope Francis
Laudato Si, Paragraph 65-67
Pontifical Biblical Commission
The commission was granted explicit papal approval as authoritatively binding by Pope Saint Pius X in 1907 (Praestantia Scripturae) until that authority was rescinded by Pope Saint Paul VI in 1971 (Sedula Cura). The rescinding does not retroactively make the previous issued decrees non-binding but merely removes that prerogative from further decrees by the commission. Much of the decrees are only available in Latin and Italian but the first 50 years are in English here.
Miscellaneous
Fr. Chad Ripperger
The Metaphysical Impossibility of Human Evolution
Dr. Henry Morris
The Mathematical Impossibility of Evolution
Fr. Seraphim Rose
Genesis, Creation, and Early Man
Fr. Victor Warkulwiz
The Doctrines of Genesis
Drs. John Bergsma and Brant Pitre
A Catholic Introduction to the Bible: The Old Testament (I don’t have a PDF)
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It is outstandingly beautiful and important because of the retribution of justice. Christ will be such a Center in the final judgment. It is considered by the jurist or the civil ruler, in order that repayment be made according to merit. Justice embellishes the whole world: it makes beautiful what had been deformed, it makes more beautiful what was already beautiful, and most beautiful what had been improved. In this sense Augustine writes that the damned are most beautifully placed in hell.
Certain works are attributed to justice, and certain others to mercy, because in some justice appears more forcibly and in others mercy. Even in the damnation of the reprobate mercy is seen, which, though it does not totally remit, yet somewhat alleviates, in punishing short of what is deserved.
In the justification of the ungodly, justice is seen, when God remits sins on account of love, though He Himself has mercifully infused that love. So we read of Magdalen: "Many sins are forgiven her, because she hath loved much" (Luke 7:47).
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I think some people confuse the forgiveness of sin with the removal of sin's consequence. Like the case of a parent correcting their child and restoring order in the family. Sure, the child can be truly sorry for harming their sibling, and their sibling can forgive them, but the parent should still enforce a consequence fitting the offense. This justice is for the child's sake and the parent's sake! God is merciful, but He is also just. Our sins have caused pain and destruction and therefore justly deserve punishment, and if it isn't in this world it will be in the next. I'm confused how people think that would negate His love or our free will, rather than highlight His great mercy in allowing us to unite our earthly suffering to His just corrections of those in Purgatory.
Yea it’s an issue with viewing mercy and justice as irreconcilable or opposed to one another rather than complimentary aspects. This is especially the case with God, from Whom both justice and mercy are exhibited in their greatest perfection. I will never understand why people cannot see that, especially because we have a plethora of authors who treat the subject in depth.
I need prayers for myself please. While I’ve not physically committed a long-time habitual sin since my last confession, I want to, or my body wants to at the very least because it would provide a dopamine hit. I’m torn between wanting to not sin and wanting the dopamine and wanting to avoid anything tempting altogether and wanting to toe the line. God has kept me from following through when I’ve allowed myself to get close to a near occasion of sin or thwarted my efforts when I’ve decided to do it anyway because I can’t keep fighting, but this is exhausting. Pray for me and everyone else who struggles like this.
Bit of unsolicited advice but since I suspect no one may be telling you this it is absolutely not normal to suddenly have a ton of health problems in your late 20s and it's really important to see a doctor, it can no doubt be resolved quickly.
it’s mainly just back and joint pain from playing contact sports and then having a really horrible diet/exercise regimen after college until this year basically
i do have to see a doctor, certainly, but for other issues unrelated to the back pain that made me make that post
Sins are things that are bad for you but they are also, very importantly, things that we will be punished for.
Be at agreement with thy adversary betimes, whilst thou art in the way with him: lest perhaps the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
Amen I say to thee, thou shalt not go out from thence till thou repay the last farthing.
Once again, that’s not true. That’s Catholic Answers slop twisting a true doctrine (ie free will being the cause of final impenitence) into something it isn’t in order to be more palatable. God absolutely sends the reprobate to hell:
The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity.
And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 13:41-42
Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, which was prepared for the devil and his angels.
Matthew 25:41
Also, even if we ignore hell entirely, God still punishes sin through purgatory. To say that God does not punish sin is insane blasphemy.
If any one saith, that, after the grace of Justification has been received, to every penitent sinner the guilt is remitted, and the debt of eternal punishment is blotted out in such wise, that there remains not any debt of temporal punishment to be discharged either in this world, or in the next in Purgatory, before the entrance to the kingdom of heaven can be opened (to him); let him be anathema.
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Moreover, we declare that according to the common arrangement of God, the souls of those who depart in actual mortal sin immediately after their death descend to hell where they are tortured by infernal punishments, and that nevertheless on the day of judgment all men with their bodies will make themselves ready to render an account of their own deeds before the tribunal of Christ, "so that everyone may receive the proper things of the body according as he has done whether it be good or evil" [lI Cor. 5:10]
Moreover, the souls of those who depart in actual mortal sin or in original sin only, descend immediately into hell but undergo punishments of different kinds.
The souls of those who die in mortal sin or with original sin only, however, descend immediately into hell, yet to be punished with different punishments.
He will come at the end of time to judge the living and the dead, to render to every person according to his works, both to the reprobate and to the elect. All of them will rise with their own bodies, which they now wear, so as to receive according to their deserts, whether these be good or bad; for the latter perpetual punishment with the devil, for the former eternal glory with Christ.
Pope Innocent III, Confession of Faith (Lateran IV)
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Sins are things that are bad for you but they are also, very importantly, things that we will be punished for.
Be at agreement with thy adversary betimes, whilst thou art in the way with him: lest perhaps the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
Amen I say to thee, thou shalt not go out from thence till thou repay the last farthing.
Once again, that’s not true. That’s Catholic Answers slop twisting a true doctrine (ie free will being the cause of final impenitence) into something it isn’t in order to be more palatable. God absolutely sends the reprobate to hell:
The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity.
And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 13:41-42
Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, which was prepared for the devil and his angels.
Matthew 25:41
Also, even if we ignore hell entirely, God still punishes sin through purgatory. To say that God does not punish sin is insane blasphemy.
sometimes i do struggle to contain my inner Ed Feser where i become extremely annoying and start posting a million proofs on the same topic to drive home my point
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