Father Faber
“...the Incarnation flows as completely by way of consequence from the mystery of Creation, as Transubstantiation does from the mystery of the Incarnation; and, if it were not so, to me all theology would be confusion.”
“There is hardly any mystery the consideration of which is more fruitful in the soul than that of Creation... Even in devotional theology, meditation on the mystery of Creation is of great consequence. In its light many of our Blessed Lord’s mysteries give up deeper meanings to us.”
- “There is hardly any mystery the consideration of which is more fruitful in the soul than that of Creation”
- “[M]editation on the mystery of Creation is of great consequence.”
- “In its [the Creation mystery] light many of our Blessed Lord’s mysteries give up deeper meanings to us.”
“...the creation of the world...took place thousands of years ago”
This Catholic priest shows that with the creation of the world taking place thousands of years ago, the myth that “young earth creationism” was developed by Protestants sometime in the 20th century, is false. This position of an earth under 10,000 years old, was held by this Catholic priest of the 19th century and held by Catholics of every century before it.
Also notice, Fr. Faber mentions (p. 44) that the “creation of the world” is a “past mystery”. How much do fields in science attempt to take apart and unravel to disbelief, the following mysteries of:
- 1) The Virgin Birth
- 2) The Trinity
- 3) The Dual Nature of Christ
- 4) The Divinity of Christ
- 5) Substance changing on our altars
(Transubstantiation)
“The earth, the sun, the moon, the stars, and all that forms the universe, have had a beginning. These creatures owe their existence to a Supreme Being...”
“The earth...sun...moon...stars...” are “[t]hese creatures”
“He made all things out of nothing by a mere act of His will; therefore, His attributes of power and of perfection exceed the comprehension of man.”
Enter not into dispute with modern believers in the Dark Doctrines of the Devil's Disciple Darwin.
If you do enter into dispute with evolutionists know they will weigh you down with leaden materialism which will cause you to sink so far down into the enlightenment quicksand that the Light of Christ will not be able to reach you.
Calmly tell others the truth that the Catholic Church teaches and tell those who reject the truth that they who reject Divine Revelation will one day stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ to answer for their having turned a deaf ear to the voice of God.
Anno Mundi (A.M.), which is Latin for “in the year of the world,” was commonly used for identifying the year after creation that something existed.
Here are two “A.M.” references on p. 7 of this Catholic work,
“Malaleel, (Ma-la’le-el,) his son, was born A.M. 395; lived 395 years.
Jared, the son of Malaleel, was born A.M. 1422, and he lived 962 years.”
Another reference to Anno Mundi, is on p. 9, “The ark was finished A.M. 1656.”
One final reference for our purposes here is on p. 11,
“...and all the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died in the year 2006. And Abraham was born two years after Noe’s death, A.M. 2008.”
“...and, in order to shew [sic] that this creation was not the effect of any necessary cause, but the production of a voluntary act, God gave to this work successive degrees of perfection in an admirable order.”
“...creation was not the effect of any necessary cause...”.
“to shew [sic] that this creation was not the effect of any necessary cause...God gave to this work...an admirable order.”
Dom Prosper Gueranger
Father Gueranger states:
“Let us consider how the various nations on the face of the earth, though differing in customs, and speech, and interests, are all united in the expectation of a Deliverer soon to come. Neither the frightful corruption of morals, nor the long ages which have passed since the promises were given, have been able to efface the tradition, or the hope it inspired.”
“The new Birth of our Redeemer takes place after four weeks, as the first Nativity happened after four thousand years, according to the Hebrew and Vulgate Chronology.”
“With what gratitude ought they not to assist at that divine Sacrifice, for which the world had been longing for four thousand years! God has granted them to be born after the fulfilment of that stupendous and merciful oblation, and would not put them in the generations of men, who died before they could partake of its reality and its riches! This notwithstanding, they must earnestly unite with the Church, in praying for the coming of the Redeemer, so to pay their share of that great debt which God has put upon all, whether living before or after the fulfilment of the mystery of the Incarnation. Let them think of this in assisting at the holy Sacrifice.”
“...the world had been created, and the human race had dwelt on this earth full four thousand years, before the Son of God took to himself the nature of man.”
“Let us listen once more to the salutation, and we shall find from its last words that Gabriel is announcing the fulfilment of the divine oracle, and is addressing Mary as the woman foretold to be the instrument of the victory over Satan. ‘Blessed art thou among women.’ For four thousand years every woman has been under the curse of God, and has brought forth her children in suffering and sorrow: but here is the one among women, that has been ever blessed of God...that shall bring forth the fruit of her womb without travail.”
“The year from the creation of the world, when in the beginning God created heaven and earth, five thousand one hundred and ninety-nine: from the deluge, the year two thousand nine hundred and fifty- seven: from the birth of Abraham, the year two thousand and fifteen: from Moses and the going out of the people of Israel from Egypt, the year one thousand five hundred and ten...”
“On this one day alone, and on this single occasion, does the Church adopt the Septuagint chronology, according to which the birth of our Saviour took place five thousand years after the creation; whereas the Vulgate version, and the Hebrew text, place only four thousand between the two events. This is not a fitting place to explain the discrepancy of chronology; we merely allude to it as showing the liberty which the Church allows us on this question.”
“But it was not enough to solemnize the great Day when Jesus, our Light, rose from the darkness of the tomb: there was another anniversary which claimed our grateful celebration. The Incarnate Word rose on the first day of the week,- that same day, whereon, four thousand years before, He, the Uncreated Word of the Father, had begun the work of Creation, by calling forth light, and separating it from darkness. The first day thus ennobled by the creation of light. It received a second consecration by the Resurrection of Jesus; and from that time forward Sunday, and not Saturday, was to be the Lord’s Day. Yes, our Resurrection in Jesus which took place on Sunday, gave the first day a preeminence above the others of the week: the divine precept of the Sabbath was abrogated together with the other ordinances of the Mosaic Law, and the Apostles instructed the faithful to keep holy the first day of the week, which God had dignified with that twofold glory, the creation and the regeneration of the world.”
“Yes, our Resurrection in Jesus which took place on Sunday, gave the first day a preeminence above the others of the week: the divine precept of the Sabbath was abrogated together with the other ordinances of the Mosaic Law, and the Apostles instructed the faithful to keep holy the first day of the week, which God had dignified with that twofold glory, the creation and the regeneration of the world.” “...the Apostles instructed the faithful to keep holy the first day of the week, which God had dignified with that twofold glory, the creation and the regeneration of the world.”
Baltimore Catechism
“72 Q. Did the Son of God become man immediately after the sin of our first parents?
A. The Son of God did not become man immediately after the sin of our first parents, but He was promised to them as a Redeemer.
God did not say to Adam when He would send the Redeemer, and so the Redeemer did not come for about 4000 years after He was first promised. God permitted this long time to elapse in order that mankind might feel and know how great an evil sin is, and what misery it brought upon the world. During these 4000 years, men were becoming gradually worse. At one time- about 1600 years after Adam’s sin- they became so bad that God destroyed by a deluge, or great flood of water, all persons and living things upon the earth, except Noe, his wife, his three sons and their wives, and the animals they had in the ark with them (Genesis vi.).”
“During these 4000 years men were becoming gradually worse.”
“At one time- about 1600 years after Adam’s sin- they became so bad that God destroyed by a deluge, or great flood of water, all persons and living things upon the earth, except Noe, his wife, his three sons and their wives, and the animals they had in the ark with them (Genesis vi.). After God determined to destroy all living things on account of the wickedness of men, He told Noe...to build a great ark, or ship, for himself and his family, and for some of all the living creatures upon the earth (Genesis vii.).”
“Noe spent a hundred years in making the ark. At that time men lived much longer than they do now. Adam lived over 900 years and Mathusala, the oldest man, lived to be 969 years old. There are many reasons why men live a shorter time now than then. When the door of the ark was closed, God sent a great rain that lasted for forty days and forty nights. All the springs of water broke forth...Men ran here and there to high places, while the water rose higher and higher till it covered the tops of the mountains, and all not in the ark were drowned. The big ark floated about for about a year...It took a long time, therefore, for the waters...to go down...”
“46 Q. What other effects followed from the sin of our first parents?
A. Our nature was corrupted by the sin of our first parents, which darkened our understanding, weakened our will, and left us a strong inclination to evil.
Our ‘nature was corrupted’ is what I have said of the body rebelling against the soul. Our ‘understanding darkened.’ Adam knew much more without study than the most intelligent men could learn now with constant application. Before his fall he saw things clearly and understood them well, but after his sin everything had to be learned by the slow process of study.”
St. Hilary of Poitiers:
“For all things as the Prophet [Moses] says, were made out of nothing; it was no transformation of existing things, but the creation into a perfect form of the non-existent.” (On the Trinity, Bk IV, 19, Nicene and Post-Niece Fathers, Volume 9, p.76)
St. Bonaventure:
“Finally, the perfection and completion of the universe require in all things an order of time and place...the crowning glory of the whole material world, had been made last, that is, on the sixth day for the completion of that world...” (Breviloquium, 155)
St. Thomas Aquinas:
“[T]he final perfection, which is the end of the whole universe, is the perfect beatitude of the saints at the consummation of the world; and the first perfection is the completeness of the universe at its first founding, and this is what is ascribed to the seventh day.” (ST I, Q 73, A 1.)
“The completion of the universe as to the completeness of its parts belongs to the sixth day, but its completion as regards their operation, to the seventh”
“’Creator.’ To create means to make out of nothing. God alone can create. When a carpenter makes a table, he must have wood; when a tailor makes a coat, he must have cloth. They are only makers and not creators. God needs no material or tools. When we make anything, we make it part by part; but God makes the whole at once. He simply wills and it is made. Thus He said in the beginning of the world: ‘Let there be light; and light was made.’ For example, suppose I wanted a piano. If I could say, ‘Let there be a piano,’ and it immediately sprang up without any other effort on my part, although neither the wood, the iron, the wire, the ivory, nor anything else in it ever existed till I said, ‘Let there be a piano,’ then it could be said I created a piano. No one could do this, for God alone has such power.”
“This lesson treats of God bringing everything into existence. The chief things created may be classed as follows: (1) The things that simply exist, as rocks, and minerals- gold, silver, iron, etc. (2) Things that exist, grow, and live, like plants and trees. (3) Things that grow, live, feel, and understand, like men. Besides these we have the sun, moon, stars, etc...All these are the works of God’s creation. All these He has called into existence by merely wishing for them.”
[Dogmatic Council of Lateran IV, that
“God...creator of all visible and invisible things of the spiritual and of the corporeal who by his own omnipotent power at once from the beginning of time created each creature from nothing, spiritual and corporeal namely angelic and mundane and finally the human, constituted as it were, alike of the spirit and the body.” ]
“Q. What is man?
A. Man is a creature composed of a body and soul and made to the image and likeness of God. ‘Creature,’ i.e., a thing created. Man differs from anything else in creation. All things else are either entirely matter, or entirely spirit.”
“The devil is much wiser than we are, and has much more experience, being among the people of the world ever since the time of Adam- about 6000 years.”
“What do you believe of Jesus Christ?...
He was true God equal to His Father from all eternity. He became man when He came upon the earth about 2000 years ago, and was born on Christmas day.”
“...What happened when Our Lord said, ‘This is My body, this is My blood’?
A. When Our Lord said, “This is My body,” the substance of the bread was changed into the substance of His body. When he said, ‘This is My blood,’ the substance of the wine was changed into the substance of His blood.”
“Again, it is much easier to change one thing into another than to make it entirely out of nothing. Any one who can create out of nothing can surely change one thing into another. Now Our Lord, being God, created the world out of nothing; and He could therefore easily change the substance of bread into the substance of flesh.”
In the beginning God created all things; something particular on each of the six days of creation (Genesis i.).”
“God wished Adam to have a companion; so one day He caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep, and then took from his side a rib, out of which he formed Eve. Now God could have made Eve as He made Adam, by forming her body out of the clay of the earth and breathing into it a soul, but He made Eve out of Adam’s rib to show they were to be husband and wife, and to impress upon their minds the nature and sacredness of love and union that should exist between them.”
- Many Catholics reject the various claims made in the Baltimore Catechism as against the “science” of today. We must remember that in the first part of the Summa Theologica, in the very first question, St. Thomas Aquinas reminds the Catholic, that the science of Sacred Doctrine (Theology) has the ability to judge the other sciences. Whether those other sciences be philosophy, physics, geology, astronomy, etc. As one can read in the (ST I, Q 1, A 6, ad. 2):
“Whatsoever is found in other sciences contrary to any truth of this science must be condemned as false”
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From this Catholic catechism, one can now see the defense of a literal six-day creation, with fully formed creatures on each of the six days, about 6,000 years ago. Let us move onto a lighter note with just a short description that defines some of the perfection that Adam and Eve experienced around them (p. 59),
“Reply to Objection 2: The principles of other sciences either are evident and cannot be proved, or are proved by natural reason through some other science. But the knowledge proper to this science comes through revelation and not through natural reason. Therefore it has no concern to prove the principles of other sciences, but only to judge of them. Whatsoever is found in other sciences contrary to any truth of this science must be condemned as false: ‘Destroying counsels and every height that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God’ (2 Cor. 10:4, 5)
St. John Chrysostom, writes in his Homilies on Genesis 9.4:
“It is clear that man in the beginning had complete authority over the animals...But that now we are afraid of beasts and do not have authority over them, this I do not deny...In the beginning it was not so, but the beasts...submitted to their master. But when through disobedience he [Adam] lost boldness, then also his authority was diminished...And he [Adam], seeing the beasts near him, did not run away, but like another lord he gives names to the slaves which are subject to him, since he gave names to all animals...This is already sufficient as proof that beasts in the beginning were not frightful for man. But there is another proof not less powerful and even clearer. Which? The conversation of the serpent with the woman. If the beast had been frightful to man, then seeing the serpent the woman would not have stopped, would not have taken his advice, would not have conversed with him with such fearlessness, but immediately on seeing him would have been terrified and run away. But behold, she converses and is not afraid; there was not yet then any fear.”
Reject those errors against Holy Mother Church’s teaching on origins, and assent, as these Catholic prelates did with their intellect, to the universal Catholic doctrines of all time. God will reward you for your stand against the world and compromised teachers, with the grace not only to fulfill your baptismal vows (as a child of God) but with the graces you need to live out your confirmation vows (as a soldier of Christ!). Crucify that fear of what others will think, as Christ did; Crucify the influence of the false science and false philosophy that has dominated the worldview of mankind now for hundreds of years. You shall surely merit graces that, if accepted, will work for the salvation of souls (your own included). The crown of thorns awaits the Catholic in its modern manifestation: ridicule from almost all - most Catholics, most atheists, most Protestants, and others. By humbly accepting this crown, we will help others to accept their crowns.
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