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approval as authoritatively binding by Pope Saint Pius X in 1907 (Praestantia Scripturae) until that authority was rescinded by Pope Saint Paul VI in 1971 (Sedula Cura).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 donât have a PDF)
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How do you make sense of horrific ruthless suffering?
The Cross. Throughout the Old Testament you see these cries to God asking why suffering is permitted, both in general and in specific instances. For instance, in Habakkuk we read: O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? The same sentiment can be seen in many instances by the Psalmist and then we have the entire book of Job wrestling with the question through various means.
The answer comes by way of the Crucifixion. God Himself enters creation and does something considered scandalous to the Jews and folly to the Gentiles. The innocent, spotless Lamb suffers unjustly. Now this is the great mystery come to fruition. People tend to argue from providence wherein God brings a greater good out of any evil. And that is true, certainly, but this argument is incomplete without the view of Golgotha. The death of the Son of Man shows us that the pain and suffering of this world is not alien to the Divine Mind but becomes, as it were, inscribed on the heart of salvation history itself. That the suffering of this world, in a mystical way, can be united to the suffering of the God-Man on the Cross and it can be truly meritorious for us in the hope of the Heavenly Jerusalem for all eternity.
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If you want my sincere answer to the former: itâs because I cannot look at the clouds against the day sky and not but believe that God exists. If you want a more intellectual answer Iâm partial to Saint Thomasâ âSecond Way.â
As to the latter, no. I have difficulties here and there, but never a doubt.
Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate. There of course may be difficulties in the evidence; but I am speaking of difficulties intrinsic to the doctrines themselves, or to their relations with each other. A man may be annoyed that he cannot work out a mathematical problem, of which the answer is or is not given to him, without doubting that it admits of an answer, or that a certain particular answer is the true one. Of all points of faith, the being of a God is, to my own apprehension, encompassed with most difficulty, and yet borne in upon our minds with most power.
Cardinal Saint John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua
For wisdom came forth from God: for praise shall be with the wisdom of God, and shall abound in a faithful mouth, and the sovereign Lord will give praise unto it.
Say not: It is through God, that she is not with me: for do not thou the things that he hateth.
Say not: He hath caused me to err: for he hath no need of wicked men.
The Lord hateth all abomination of error, and they that fear him shall not love it.
God made man from the beginning, and left him in the hand of his own counsel.
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I'm reading St. Grigor's (c. 951-1011) Litany of St. John the Forerunner, and he repeatedly refers to God as "Existent", and this reminds me of some of the memre of Mar Narsai (c. 399-502) in which he uses very similar phrasing. Of course, this is echoing to God's words to Moses, when asked His name: "I Am,"; or Jesus' words to the Jews: "before Moses was, I AM."
âYour method of assuming that modern liberalism is true, then going to Scripture, and having never considered the nature of reality, youâre simply going to continue to come to the wrong conclusions. You need to start asking yourself where your current beliefs came from, because they did not derive from nature or Scripture.â
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