Here's more proof that the Roman Catholic Church does not believe the Word of God to be true and simply makes up doctrines as they go along. The Vatican is now claiming and endorsing the man made idea that human beings were in a pre-human state before God desired to make a man rather than believe God's account of creation outlined in Genesis. Here, the Vatican is taking the long way around and saying that human beings came from apes instead of putting forth their position of evolution.
God made pre-humans into people, Vatican newspaper says By Carol Glatz CatholicNewsService VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While apes evolved naturally into pre-human creatures, it was the will and desire of God that turned them into humans, an article in the Vatican newspaper said."The formation of human beings necessitated a particular contribution by God, though it remains that their emergence was brought about by natural causes" of evolution, it said.The article, published in the May 5-6 edition of L'Osservatore Romano, was written by Italian evolutionary biologist Fiorenzo Facchini.The article said that, "when the biological conditions necessary for supporting a being capable of reflective thought were attained, the will of God, the creator, freely desired it, and man came to be."continued
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I think it is well established that the Vatican does not believe the Bible literally. The Bible says that God made Adam from the dust of the ground, not that He put a soul into an animal to make the animal into a man.
ReplyDeleteThere is actually a way to reconcile the fossil record and an earth that is millions of years old with a literal reading of Genesis, as I point out in my book and one of my articles, but this isn't it.