Sunday, June 21, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC. Question n. 41 – Part II.
(Youcat answer - repeated) No. The sentence “God created
the world” is not an outmoded scientific statement. We are dealing here with a
theo-logical statement, therefore a statement about the divine meaning (theos =
God, logos = meaning) and origin of things.
A deepening through
CCC
(CCC 286) Human intelligence is surely already capable of
finding a response to the question of origins. The existence of God the Creator
can be known with certainty through his works, by the light of human reason
(Cf. Vatican Council I, can. 2 § I: DS 3026) even if this knowledge is often
obscured and disfigured by error. This is why faith comes to confirm and
enlighten reason in the correct understanding of this truth: "By faith we
understand that the world was created by the word of God, so that what is seen
was made out of things which do not appear" (Heb 11:3).
Reflecting and
meditating
(Youcat comment)
The creation account is not a scientific
model for explaining the beginning of the world. “God created the world” is a
theological statement that is concerned with the relation of the world to God.
God willed the world; he sustains it and will perfect it. Being created is a
lasting quality in things and an fundamental truth about them.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 288) Thus the revelation of creation is inseparable
from the revelation and forging of the covenant of the one God with his People.
Creation is revealed as the first step towards this covenant, the first and
universal witness to God's all-powerful love (Cf. Gen 15:5; Jer 33:19-26). And
so, the truth of creation is also expressed with growing vigour in the message
of the prophets, the prayer of the psalms and the liturgy, and in the wisdom
sayings of the Chosen People (Cf. Isa 44:24; Ps 104; Prov 8:22-31). (CCC 289)
Among all the Scriptural texts about creation, the first three chapters of
Genesis occupy a unique place. From a literary standpoint these texts may have
had diverse sources. The inspired authors have placed them at the beginning of
Scripture to express in their solemn language the truths of creation - its
origin and its end in God, its order and goodness, the vocation of man, and
finally the drama of sin and the hope of salvation. Read in the light of
Christ, within the unity of Sacred Scripture and in the living Tradition of the
Church, these texts remain the principal source for catechesis on the mysteries
of the "beginning": creation, fall, and promise of salvation.
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