Why Did Christ Wait So Long to Come Into the World When Men Had Been in the World For 200,000 Years? A Catholic Article About This

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semper_catholicus said:
The Early Church Fathers and Doctors pretty much all agreed that Genesis 1-11 was to be taken literally, so I’ll stick with them.
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Theology evolves…St. Augustine once painted the Gospel of St. Mark as plagiarism of St. Matthew’s work, because Mark was not an Apostle.
 
Theology doesn’t “evolve” that’s a slippery slope.
 
Actually, mankind was created exactly 30 seconds ago. We were all created with memories of a lifetime that we never actually lived and a sense of history that never actually happened.
 
semper_catholicus said:
Theology doesn’t “evolve” that’s a slippery slope.
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Dogmata(undeniable truth) does not evolve, but theology does…I think you are confusing the two…Acceptance of Creationism is theological, but it is not dogmatic or doctrinal…we are left to accept or deny it without impeding our Catholicism.

I’m not sure you understand the difference between theology and dogma and doctrine, so I’ll cut my losses, and back out of this discussion.

Thanks for the discussion.

Peace!
 
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“But he must not on that account consider that it is forbidden, when just cause exists, to push inquiry and exposition beyond what the Fathers have done; provided he carefully observes the rule so wisely laid down by St. Augustine-not to depart from the literal and obvious sense, except only where reason makes it untenable or necessity requires;(40) a rule to which it is the more necessary to adhere strictly in these times, when the thirst for novelty and unrestrained freedom of thought make the danger of error most real and proximate.”

-Paragraph 15 of Providentissimus Deus, Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII on the Study of Scripture.
 
Maybe God decided that He wanted the skill of writing in various languages to have “evolved” … and then … after that … the “evolution” of the printing press and all of the associated “skills” … movable type, etc.
 
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