God Is Not The Creator, Claims Academic

[Catholictothecore]

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='12 October 2009 - 04:04 PM' timestamp='1255377890' post='1984047']
I wouldn't worry about it. Critical peer review will put her claims about [i]bara[/i] to the test, but either way this would not mean that "God is not the creator," I hate the news sometimes.
[/quote]

Exactly! This is just another case of the media playing something up for a good story. Just because there might be a better translation does not mean that God is not the creator.

Maybe some people will try burning Bibles because they're now heretical. Would Sola Scriptura people have to do that?

[goldenchild17]

I don't know anything about this, so just putting this out
there:

Beginning. As St. Matthew begins his Gospel with the same title as this work, the Book of the Generation, or Genesis, so St. John adopts the first words of Moses, in the beginning; but he considers a much higher order of things, even the consubstantial Son of God, the same with God from all eternity, forming the universe, in the beginning of time, in conjunction with the other two Divine Persons, by the word of his power; for all things were made by Him, the Undivided Deity. (Haydock) --- Elohim, the Judges or Gods, denoting plurality, is joined with a verb singular, he created, whence many, after Peter Lombard, have inferred, that in this first verse of Genesis the adorable mystery of the Blessed Trinity is insinuated, as they also gather from various other passages of the Old Testament, though it was not clearly revealed till our Saviour came himself to be the finisher of our faith (Calmet) --- The Jews being a carnal people and prone to idolatry, might have been in danger of misapplying this great mystery, and therefore an explicit belief of it was not required of them in general. See Collet. &c. (Haydock) --- [b]The word bara, created, is here determined by tradition and by reason to mean a production out of nothing, though it be used also to signify the forming of a thing out of pre-existing matter. (ver. 21, 27.) (Calmet) --- The first cause of all things must be God[/b], who, in a moment, spoke, and heaven and earth were made, heaven with all the Angels; and the whole mass of the elements, in a state of confusion, and blended together, out of which the beautiful order, which was afterwards so admirable, arose in the space of six days: thus God was pleased to manifest his free choice in opposition to those Pagans who attributed all to blind chance or fate. Heaven is here placed first, and is not declared empty and dark like the earth; that we may learn to raise our minds and hearts above this land of trial, to that our true country, where we may enjoy God for ever. (Haydock)

http://haydock1859.tripod.com/id327.html

[mommas_boy]

Duurrrh ... if God made the humans and put them on the Earth that was already here ... then who made the Earth?

[Archaeology cat]

Thanks for posting the lexicon entries for that, StColette.