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- 04470a.htm accessdate "2008-09-30".
- 04470a.htm first "Francis".
- 04470a.htm isCitedBy Creator_deity.
- 04470a.htm isCitedBy Ex_nihilo.
- 04470a.htm last "Siegfried".
- 04470a.htm location "New York".
- 04470a.htm publisher "Robert Appleton Company".
- 04470a.htm quote "Probably the idea of creation never entered the human mind apart from Revelation. Though some of the pagan philosophers attained to a relatively high conception of God as the supreme ruler of the world, they seem never to have drawn the next logical inference of His being the absolute cause of all finite existence. [...] The descendants of Sem and Abraham, of Isaac and Jacob, preserved the idea of creation clear and pure; and from the opening verse of Genesis to the closing book of the Old Testament the doctrine of creation runs unmistakably outlined and absolutely undefiled by any extraneous element. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." In this, the first, sentence of the Bible we see the fountain-head of the stream which is carried over to the new order by the declaration of the mother of the Machabees: "Son, look upon heaven and earth, and all that is in them: and consider that God made them out of nothing" . One has only to compare the Mosaic account of the creative work with that recently discovered on the clay tablets unearthed from the ruins of Babylon to discern the immense difference between the unadulterated revealed tradition and the puerile story of the cosmogony corrupted by polytheistic myths. Between the Hebrew and the Chaldean account there is just sufficient similarity to warrant the supposition that both are versions of some antecedent record or tradition; but no one can avoid the conviction that the Biblical account represents the pure, even if incomplete, truth, while the Babylonian story is both legendary and fragmentary .".
- 04470a.htm title "Creation".
- 04470a.htm url 04470a.htm.
- 04470a.htm work "The Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 4".
- 04470a.htm year "1908".