random is a mathematically sound idea where as god is a simple
creation of some MAN from long ago to explain the unexplainable of the day... chaos theory is quantum physics 101 and is also based solely on the notion of random events... not to mention quantum uncertainty which is one of my favorites.
One clear positive element in the stem - cell debate for me was hearing the top researchers in biomedical science reinforce The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 343: «Man is the summit of the Creator's work, as the inspired account expresses by clearly distinguishing
the creation of man from that of other creatures»).
Not exact matches
Having long since grabbed the mantle
of national economic powerhouse
from Ontario — that the oil province accounted for the entirety
of Canada's net job
creation over the past 12 months being just the latest piece
of evidence on that score — Alberta needs to take over Ontario's Big
Man leadership role as well.
It allows for the possibility that
man's physical body developed
from previous biological forms, under God's guidance, but it insists on the special
creation of his soul.
From Big Bang to Big Mystery: Human Origins in the Light
of Creation and Evolution by Brendan Purcell New City Press, 370 pages, $ 34.95 Benjamin Disraeli famously asked whether
man is «an ape or an angel» and answered that he himself stood «on the side
of the angels.»
Second: The
Creation tale is simply a way for early humans to explain mans creation and «fall» from God's predetermined path... The old testament is full of stuff more related to philosophy and health advice then «Gods word» However, this revelation has not made me less of a christian... In Contrast to those stuck in «the old ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself
Creation tale is simply a way for early humans to explain
mans creation and «fall» from God's predetermined path... The old testament is full of stuff more related to philosophy and health advice then «Gods word» However, this revelation has not made me less of a christian... In Contrast to those stuck in «the old ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself
creation and «fall»
from God's predetermined path... The old testament is full
of stuff more related to philosophy and health advice then «Gods word» However, this revelation has not made me less
of a christian... In Contrast to those stuck in «the old ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe on the very principle
of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash
of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and us.
«Let there be light, let there be atmosphere, let there be vegetation, Let there be lights to serve as signs (sun, moon etc), Let the water and sky have living creatures, Let the land have living creatures
of which
man was the last created then God rested
from creation.
For me I see evolution the same as you see God not enough proof to say I believe it and see God as how all things started, in my view evolution
of man can be true just that it has not been proven where God I can see because there is no other logical explanation for how the matter in the universe came to be
from nothing, a higher power for now can be the only possible answer if science was to prove the
creation of the universe in some other way I would not deny that truth.
The order
of creation reads better as spiritual poetry which rings true yet I assume your issue is related to current physical and cosmological order: Let there be light, let there be atmosphere, let there be vegetation, Let there be lights to serve as signs (sun, moon etc), Let the water and sky have living creatures, Let the land have living creatures
of which
man was the last created then God rested
from creation.
But even if some force more intelligent than us was involved in the
creation of our universe, it's still a huge leap
from there to the Abrahamic God that self - satisfied early
man.
The Son
of God became
man in order to restore all
creation, in one supreme act
of praise, to the One who made it
from nothing.
Now that God is dead, we can exploit
creation to the utmost and defend mankind by killing all the people whose views
of what
man ought to be differ
from ours.
Similarly, the Hebrew word nephesh may best be translated «breath - soul,» as is clear, for example, in the early story
of man's
creation: Yahweh shaped
man from dust out
of the ground, and blew into his nostrils the breath
of life, so that
man became a nephesh — that is, an animated being.
Even fallen
man is the suitable object
of God's supernatural grace, a grace that has operated even apart
from any knowledge
of God's new act
of creation in Christ.
No, the meaning
of man, and the intelligibility
of man, which must proceed as a factor
from the very fact that
man does exist, and must mean something, this intelligibility
of man is related not to the Divine Essence as a claim, but only to the Divine Wisdom, as a principle
of meaning for the whole
of creation.
The claim that all
creation comes
from, through and for Christ has profound implications for Christians, especially for those who study the wonders
of men and the world.
The Bible itself placed
men and animals in the same category by describing their
Creation on the same day and thus distinguishing them as a class
from all other created forms
of life.
Borders are not a
creation of God but
of man, and even if they were, we are repeatedly told we are not citizens
of this world anymore, but rather, that «our citizenship is in heaven,
from which we also eagerly wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.»
By making himself the center
of the universe,
man cuts himself off
from his own fulfillment — a fulfillment which can take place only as he establishes a genuine relatedness to the rest
of creation and to the Creator.
What
man is amid the brute
creation, such is the Church among the schools
of the world; and as Adam gave names to the animals about him, so has the Church
from the first looked round upon the earth, noting and visiting the doctrines she found there.
Both communism and National Socialism claimed many
of the prerogatives
of religion and made many
of the same promises —
from the
creation of a «new
man» to the fulfillment
of many
of the communitarian ideals found in religion.
A builder in the truest form and a
man dedicated to education,
from his earliest days he led the rebuilding
of badly damaged churches and schools and drove the
creation of a strong Catholic school system throughout the Archdiocese.»
In the meantime, I offer you (and all other worshippers
of the natural
creation that evidences a Creator whom you have, for all intents and purposes, crucified) the opportunity in print to, as Jesus said, «repent or perish», and to change the direction
of your «faith»
from trusting in God - hating
man (ultimately yourself) and trust in Jesus not religion.
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.»
They will find it harder to overlook the fact that the
man who denounces Freddie Mac to the point
of suggesting that those in Congress who aided and abetted it be imprisoned, took $ 30,000 a month
from that very same parasitic federal
creation.
In most
of the points that are to be regarded as historical (Denzinger 2123), it is not difficult to see that, as regards
creation, the special
creation of man, the equality
of the sexes, 6 the unity
of the human race (
from the experience
of the unity
of the history
of redemption),
man's original condition (which in Genesis has not the fullness
of content which can be recognized only since Christ).
This was no
creation of the Gospel
of Mark — indeed, Mark steps back
from it, in the act
of trying to prove that Jesus was secretly the divine Son
of Man during his life upon earth.
The current special effort
of some devout and sincere Baptist
men to «keep women in their place» is based on their official assertion that «
man was first in
creation, and woman was first in the Edenic fall,» which twists the meaning
of Eve's
creation from Adam's rib and puts the blame for original sin on females.
The
creation of man [the cosmos] involves the necessity for God's protection
of man [the cosmos]
from the power
of God's being.
There are tons
of contradictions in the bible, not the least
of which is the separate
creation orders (which came
from an Egyptian source and Babylonian source), where the rest
of the animals are created first, then
man (Gen 1) and then we have
man created first and then the rest
of the animals (Gen 2).
Those familiar with the Exercises will know the form: daily meditations on the entire history
of salvation -
from the
creation of the angels, and their fall, to the
creation of the universe and
man, and our fall, to the arrival
of Christ the Great King.
The difference between a natural thing and a
man - made thing is that the creativity in the latter case applies only to the holistic, unitary level
of functionality, whereas in the former case it applies to every level
of the thing whatever,
from top to bottom, throughout its physics, chemistry and biology - it is
creation exnihilo.
It has affected how
man understands the origin
of life (including his own) on this planet, and Christianity has had to contend with, account for, and reconcile its implications with the biblical narrative
of creation and purpose as stemming
from God.
The task ahead
of us is to help disentangle
from ideology the issues that make up the themes
of this consensus - inter alia,
man's relationship to
creation, the role
of woman in society, people's participation in governance, a global ethic, North - South solidarity, the role
of business, cultural identity, holism.
He taught that
creation and incarnation both declare «the thing - character
of the creature and its general purpose
of service to
man».16 «Everything in the world is more and more subject to total domination by him and appears as derived directly
from him.
These concerns are also prevalent in Lewis's and Tolkien's analyses
of «
men without chests» and the
creation of a disenchanted world devoid
of poetic myths that stem
from and preserve folk culture.
It conceived the emergence
of man from sin and the overcoming
of evil as primarily a problem
of creation, the making
of the new
man and the new world.
There is little sense
of the Pauline assertion that the whole
creation groaneth and travaileth awaiting redemption; rather it is
man who groans and travails awaiting redemption
from the world.»
What distinguishes
man from the rest
of creation is the share he has in God's thought, that is, reason as distinguished
from mere perception, which the animal also possesses.
From the
creation of the world before time to the consummation
of all things at the end
of time, the Bible describes the life
of man with God as a series
of events which taken together constitute the history
of the work
of redemption.
So that in line with, and gradually replacing, the thrust
from behind or below, we see the appearance
of a force
of attraction coming
from above which shows itself to be organically indispensable for the continuance
of the sequence, indispensable for the maintenance
of the evolutionary impetus, and also indispensable for the
creation of an atmosphere enveloping Mankind in the process
of totalization,
of psychic warmth and kindness without which
Man's economic - technological grip upon the World can only crush souls together, without causing them to fuse and unite... The «pull» after the «push», as the English would say.
This canopy
of water kept the bad rays
from the sun (even though all
creation was «very good»)
from attacking
man's sensitive skin and causing them to age faster.
The first and last word, ranging in the Bible
from the majestic symbolism
of the Genesis story
of creation to other great imagery in the book
of Revelation, is that
man is a spiritual creature, made in the divine likeness, the child
of God and intended by God for eternity.
1:20 - 27 1:20 For since the
creation of the world God's invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood
from what has been made, so that
men are without excuse.
The set
of problems concerning the usual distinction between development
of the body and
creation of the soul
of man must also be looked at
from another quite different side.
But this fallacy, however understandable, stems
from the misunderstanding
of the true purpose
of man's
creation.
For far
from being a deviation
from biblical truth, this setting
of man over against the sum total
of things, his subject - status and the object - status and mutual externality
of things themselves, are posited in the very idea
of creation and
of man's position vis - a-vis nature determined by it: it is the condition
of man meant in the Bible, imposed by his createdness, to be accepted, acted through... In short, there are degrees
of objectification... the question is not how to devise an adequate language for theology, but how to keep its necessary inadequacy transparent for what is to be indicated by it...» Hans Jonas, Phenomenon
of Life, pp. 258 - 59; cf. also Schubert Ogden's helpful discussion on «Theology and Objectivity,» Journal
of Religion 45 (1965): 175 - 95; Ian G. Barbour, Issues in Science and Religion (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice - Hall, 1966), pp. 175 - 206; and Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1962).
We make now another point which follows on
from the real, the actual impact upon the
creation,
of the sin
of man, and the rejection
of God and his Christ.
From the perspective
of the old
man or the old
creation, this new power is terrifying, for it demands not only a total immersion in the here and now, but also a total responsibility for the world.
These aims do not lose their particularity in being broadened to embrace all mankind, since
from the divine perspective
man is only one particular form
of creation.