Creation Keywords

Humans have qualities with God like love and knowledge

The guidance that God gives to people through the Holy Spirit

moral principles and values that are inherent to all humans

the idea that believers have a duty to look after the environment on behalf of God

the belief that God is beyond time and space

Almighty, having unlimited power

A Christian charity that provides emergency and long-term aid to the developing world.

Bringing the world into existence; the belief that the world is God’s loving creation.

Being worthy of respect and honour; belief that all human beings deserve to be treated with dignity because they are part of God’s creation in his image.

the belief that God gives people the opportunity to do the will of God

The teaching authority of the Catholic Church, exercised by the Pope and the Bishops

life is Holy and sacred and a gift from God

only using natural resources at a rate at which they can be replaced

someone who believes that the Genesis story a historical account of how the world was created. They take Genesis literally

a story that conveys a deep truth, but not in a literal way

“God said ‘Let there be light’; and there was light”
“So God created human beings in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female”
“God saw everything that he had made, and indeed it was very good”

“Every person, from the first moment of his life in the womb, has inviolable dignity”

“The responsibility for God’s earth means that human beings…must respect the laws of nature”

“Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a living being”
“It is not good that the man should be alone”
“This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh”

“The right way to read sacred scriptures is to read it prayerfully"

“The Big Bang does not contradict the divine act of creating, but rather requires it”

“The Bible is not meant to convey precise historical information…everything that man must know about God …is found with infallible certainty in Sacred Scripture “

“Love the Lord your God with all your hearts… and love your neighbour as yourself”

“The world is a gift which we have freely received and must share with others”

“Creatures exist only in dependence on each other, to complete each other, in the service of each other”

"We should not to depart from the literal and obvious sense, except only where reason makes it untenable or necessity requires it"

There is no conflict with belief in God and the belief in evolution insofar as that the Christian must believe that God has guided the process of evolution.