(urth) Re: urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 4, Issue 19

[maru]

Wow. That is... the most bizaare religious teaching I've ever seen. So, 
does that mean that we can honestly and non-heretically beleive that 
Jesus was never crucified? Cause to insist that he had to be crucified 
obviously limits Gods ability to do whatever ve wishes to.
~Maru

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:

> Though the scientific model of the universe, including the Big Bang

> and evolution, is not "accepted" in the sense of being something the
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>Catholic church teaches as doctrine, it is, believe it or not, heretical to 
>deny it on the basis of the first bit of Genesis. The argument is a bit
>subtle, but basically, the ideas is that Genesis teaches that God created
>the world, but to insist that He had to do it _that way_ because the
>book says so is to limit God's freedom to create however He chooses.
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>This is not to say that Catholics can't believe in seven-day creation if
>they choose. They just have to have better evidence, or at least they
>can't deny that God might have done it the other way if He wanted to.
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>--Dan'l
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