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Show 109: HISTORY OF CREATION · The Uncensored Catholic

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A, Hey, y'all, welcome today's show. I am still a bit
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horse, but probably fifty better than I was yesterday. And we'll just jump
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right in here. We're going to get into another super fascinating topic, the
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creation of the world, So buckle in and get ready for that one.
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Also, you may have noticed like this odd tapping background noise in yesterday's show.
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Figured out what it was, so hopefully I will repeat that. My
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voice not being as strong as usual, I was getting closer to the microphone
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and my knee was actually rubbing against the edge of the table, and I
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guess the microphone was picking that up through like the bass through vibrations, and
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it came out like some odd tapping noise, like somebody doing Morris Code or
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something. But we'll go ahead and start with radio replies. The person asked
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the priest worse posits I got were states this more of state but I cannot
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and the divinity of Christ? They answer, since God does not deny any
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man of really good will sufficient grace. The fault lies in your own will
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to how many priests would have the guts to say that to someone Today?
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God gives everyone sufficient grace of good will and if you can't believe, the
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fault lies within you. My word, we've I mean, I'm okay,
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You're okay. Generation really has done us some harm. They continue. You
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can believe if you wish. If you have not examined the evidence for his
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divinity, you can do so. Until you have done so. Your belief
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that He is not God is mere credulity. You should say, I have
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no opinion on the subject. I have not studied the evidence. When you
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have studied the evidence, you will have found at least three things. One,
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the documentary evidence concerning Christ is perfectly sound. Two Christ certainly claimed to
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be God. Three he certainly did things for which God God alone could be
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responsible. Whether after this you accept what Christ taught or reject it will be
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a matter of your own choice. Person says, then, men can believe
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or disbelieve in Christianity as they please, and they answer, you can,
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although they may not once it has been sufficiently brought to their notice. You
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see, Christ taught certain doctrines, but did not offer any intricate demonstration of
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their truth. He demands that we accept them as a tribute to his knowledge
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and veracity, and therefore he did not do more than merely tell us these
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truths. We are physically free to accept them because of our faith in him,
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his friendship, and the rewards he promised. To refuse to believe deserves
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punishment because it insults so good and wise a being as christ person says,
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I have studied Christianity. It is my honest opinion that it is not true.
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Yet you tell me that I am to believe that it is true.
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They answer, with the help of God's grace, not be refused. If
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you desire it, you are able to believe that it is true. A
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classification of possible states of minds and will clarify things for you. One After
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a due study of a certain proposition, a man might see that its truth
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is intrinsically evidence, as one knows, for example, that two and two
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make four by intrinsic analysis, the opposite is evidently false. They don't teach
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that in school anymore. Now two plus two can eatual five or three.
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Again. We got to get back to our basic, solid foundations. In
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this case, a man has not an opinion nor a belief. He has
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knowledge by intrinsic evidence that is not free to think differently. He does not
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merely inclined to think so like, are you a boy or a girl?
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Look down and see what's between your legs. Well, we don't go by
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intrinsic truth anymore, and that is by definition insane. We are now in
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insane culture. Two. Another state of mind, however, is that of
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wil ignorance. One who adverts to the fact that there is a certain problem
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can refuse to study it and freely choose to have no opinion about the subject.
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Three. Another stage is that of the wil for dealter, the wilfer
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willful delter. He studies the question to a certain extent. After thinking it,
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ever somewhat inadequately. Adequately, he says, I am not inclined to
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accept one position rather than another. I am in doubt about the whole matter.
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Such a man can choose to let it go at that, or can
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continue his investigation until he solves his doubts one way for another. Four.
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After due reflection, a man can come to the inclusion that there is intrinsic
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evidence neither for nor against a given doctrine. As far as he knows it
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could be true, it could be false, But he knows that some authoritative
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person has said it is true. There is nothing in the proposition itself to
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prevent his acceptance of it. All. This is a question of credentials of
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his inform He diverts his attention to the quality of his authority. He diverts
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his attention to the qualities of this authority. If he is satisfied that his
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authority must know and is truthful, he is free to adopt. He is
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free to accept the doctrine because of faith in his teacher, or he is
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free to disbelieve it on the score that it has not been intrinsically demonstrated to
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his personal satisfaction. Now you have studied Christian doctrine, seeking always intrinsic evidence
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of its truth, you have chosen to adopt the position that it will be
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false. Unless you find some such intrinsic evidence, you are quite unable to
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prove it intrinsically false. In the circumstances, you are perfectly free to divert
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your attention from the aspect you perceive. Study the credentials of Christ as a
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divine teacher, and, once convinced of their value, except the doctrine upon
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his authority. If you do not do so, it will be because you
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choose not to do so. And finally, in this chapter, the same
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person said, if God did not give me sufficient intelligence to be able to
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believe, surely no blame attaches to me. That is true if God failed
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to do so, but he did not. Your reason tells you that Christianity
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teaches certain mysterious things. You ask on what authority it so teaches. You
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are told that. You are told that Almighty God has revealed these doctrines at
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once. The fact these doctrines are extraordinary becomes no account. God must know
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and is certainly supremely truthful. The only point is did He reveal such doctrines?
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You are slow. You are shown that they are contained of the Bible,
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and that the Catholic Church teaches them. Your duty is to make sure
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that the Bible is of a liable source of information, and that the Catholic
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Churches an institution guaranteed by God as a safe and authentic teacher of men in
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religious matters. If these things have been reasonably verified, as they certainly can
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be, you are reasonably free to accept the doctrines thus guaranteed as being of
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God. Now, God has not failed to endow you a sufficient reason to
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do this. If you refuse to use your reason, or you misuse it,
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or if you refuse to believe all that you do not fully comprehend for
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yourself, despite your knowledge that God has revealed such doctrines, you are to
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blame. Remember that refuse to believe because reason does not entirely comprehend. The
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doctrine is to say that human reason is the ultimate test of all truth that
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is not true when human reason cannot demonstrate to his own satisfaction. In the
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light of the obvious limitation of human reason and the history of human aberrations in
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thought, this is clearly in a rational position. The conclusion remains that Christ
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justified his claims to be the divinely sent teacher of men, that he sent
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his apostles and their legitimate successors to teach all nations, that he thereby laid
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upon all nations the obligation of being taught, and that once his teaching has
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been sufficiently put before them, men are guilty if they presume to reject it.
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In the case of such men, acceptance of the Christian religion is necessary
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if they are to be saved. That brings me to an unpleasant topic.
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You may remember a last in yesterday's show, I mentioned that a friend of
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mine had passed away, and I asked for prayers for the repose of her
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soul. Oh, so put that on Twitter, and oh the response has
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been overwhelming. I mean, hundreds of people that I don't even know have
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offered up prayers for Pam and very much appreciated. But of course we get
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a couple of Protestants and one of them said, I mean, just blatantly,
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with all the anti Catholic, seething bigotry, they could that prayers for
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the dead are Unchristian and will do no good and are blasphemous and all that.
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That's exactly the problem with what the priests were just saying. One if
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this person, this Protestant, had a real and complete Bible, the Bible
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all Christians used for fifteen hundred years, the one you know, partially written
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by the Apostles and compiled by the Apostles and their immediate successors, they would
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have such books as the Book of Maccabees, in which it says that it's
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good to pray for the dead. But early Protestants, I think Martin Luther
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was the one that did this. It could have been one of his successors
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cut that book out of the Bible because it disagreed with their opinion. Well,
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this person says that, you know, the Bible says that you know
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wants you to die the decisions made, there's no salvation after that. Actually,
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no, no, the Bible doesn't say that. Your false Bible says
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that. Your fake Bible, the Bible with Martin Luther changed the words of
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Jesus to match his own false doctrine and cut out whole books of the Bible
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that he didn't agree with. And actually, your false Bible doesn't even say
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that. That's Protestant doctrine that isn't grounded in biblical teaching. There's nothing in
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the Bible that says that whatsoever, not a single thing. Meanwhile, not
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only does a real Bible say that we should pray for the dead, but
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the Church that God gave his authority has constantly taught for over two thousand years
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that Christians have a duty to pray for the dead and the reality of purgatory,
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and that the decision is not made at the blink of an eye.
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At the moment you die, you will most likely have to spend some time
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in purgatory. You don't immediately just go to heaven or Hell. I mean,
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if you're a Satan worshiper, you probably do. You know, if
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you're a saint, you probably do. So. If you're like decidedly in
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one camp or the other, probably do. But for the ninety nine percent
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of us in the middle that are neither as good as we should be as
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Christians, nor purely evil or absolutely rejecting of God, we'll get to spend
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some time in purgatory, and the prayers of the Church militant, the Church
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on Earth, the Living united with the Church triumphant, the Church in Earth
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in Heaven, I mean Church in Heaven are very efficacious for the soul's in
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purgatory. You know, you can, honestly you can believe that because one
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the Bible says it, and two the Church, the only legitimate Christian church,
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teaches it. If you choose to believe the false doctrines of Protestantism,
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most of which are you know, only about fifty years old. I mean,
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yeah, you'll say. The foundational doctrines were with Martin Luther and they
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influenced the Anglican Church. Sure, Martin Luther actually prayed to the Blessed Virgin
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Mary. He had a great respect and veneration for the Mother of God.
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Does your Baptist church do that? No, your Baptist Church rejects actually one
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of the main tenants of Lutheran Protestantism, and so it is now modern Lutheranism.
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They rejected what their founder teached because it has no foundation and no basis
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in legitimate Christian doctrine, and no biblical evidence to support it. Sorry,
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but I'll say seventy five percent of Protestant doctrine in the tens of thousands of
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Protestant denominations, all of whom disagree with each other, is completely made up.
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And everything they think they hate about the Etholic Church is completely biblical and
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is taught with the authority that Christ gave his church, that he gave to
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no other person on the face of the earth, no other institution, only
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to his apostles and their successors those they would ordain, and to the church
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that he founded while he was living on this earth before the Crucifixion, when
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he said to Peter, your name is no longer Simon Barjona. They are
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Peter, which means the Rock, and upun this rock I found my church
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and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. But let me just
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pause it another point, if I could, how filled with hatred do you
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have to be when someone has just asked for prayers for a deceased friend and
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hundreds of people are expressing their sympathies and condolences. To get on there and
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try to insult a person that is that's not a sign of zeal for your
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religion. Uh, Christianity is love. As Christians, we can give condolences
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and prayers and support to non Christians, to Muslims, to Jews, to
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Hindus, to atheists, because you know that's what Jesus would do. Okay.
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Love is the cardinal virtue. The greatest of these is love. And
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you're going to go on a forum where someone's grieving and other people are offering
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your support, and you're going to assault their religion and themselves and the person
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that they're grieving for that is not Christian. That is demonic possession. If
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you hate the Catholic Church so much that you would do something like that,
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you're probably going to hell. And I said a prayer for that person because
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I am actually a Christian now on too, Father Sparago, Father Sparago starts
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with the history of creation. This is actually sub chapter number five in the
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Apostles Creed. We say God created heaven and earth. Well, boy,
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are we going to get into that? We are instructed by the writer of
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the Book of Genesis and the story of Creation. The account given of the
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creation in the Book of Genesis is not a fable, but is founded on
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the truth. The sacred writer was enlightened by the Holy Ghost and his words
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are part of the Word of God. Perhaps God gave him a vision of
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the course of creation. The story is an exact agreement with the conclusions of
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natural history. All investigations into the crust of the earth show that organic life
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was developed in an order set forth in genesish once again I have to ask
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you to excuse my raspy voicees get an old. In the beginning zo point
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one, God created the spiritual and material universe in the beginning I in the
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beginning of time, and there was nothing else existing except God. Time began
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with the world, so that before the creation there was no time. Holy
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scripture does not tell us when the world was created. The world may have
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existed for millions of years before the creation of man. Oddly enough, there
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are many Baptist and Pentecostals out there that'll swear to you that the world is
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only ten thousand years old. You know, scientists can go find dinosaur bones
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that are millions of years old, day tony, they even exist. Yeah,
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what are you going to do? I mean, you cannot put sense
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in some people's brains. The fact that it takes millions of years for the
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light of some of the heavenly bodies to reach the earth seems to show this
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to have been the case. Created i e. Made of nothing. How
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God produced the materials out of which the world was made we do not know.
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Instead of the spiritual and the material world, Saint Paul says things visible
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and invisible. The words of Genesis are in the beginning. God created the
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heaven and earth. The heaven does not mean the star mismangled sky, the
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creation of which is narrated subsequently, it means the abode of the angels and
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saints. The material world is called the earth because the earth is for men
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the most important part of the material world. The first words of the Bible,
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God created Heaven are intended to remind man of his last end and future
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destiny. The spiritual world consists of angels and the heaven where they dwelt.
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The angels are called the morning stars in job because they were created before the
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material world and in the morning of the universe. Hell was not created at
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the beginning of the universe, but la a later period. This is reference
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to Matthew thirty four and forty one, after the fall of the rebel angels.
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The material world includes all things which are found in the visible universe.
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Men are a union of spirit and body, and were created later point two.
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The material world was at first without form, without inhabitants, without light.
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God first created the material elements out of which the world was formed.
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Natural philosophy tells us that the world existed first of all in a form of
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a vast, massive vapor, and that this vast mask gradually was condensed under
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the influence of an intense heat and to the material universe. This is perfectly
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in accordance with the account of the creation given in Genesis. Point three.
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God gave the material universe in its present form in the course of six days.
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Point three. God gave to the material universe its present form in this
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course of six days. These days are probably long periods of time consisting of
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many thousands of years. For the seventh day, the day of rest,
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lasts until the end of the world. Is that interesting? We are still
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in the seventh day. Moreover, four of the days were already elapsed before
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the sun was formed, and therefore they cannot have been the days as we
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now understand the world as we now understand the word. The word day is
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chosen because of the week of creation was to be a sort of pattern of
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our present week. On the first day, God made light. We readly
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in Genesis, God said, let there be light, and there was light.
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The expression let there be denotes that something came into existence which did not
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exist before. This was the luminous matter which is now gathered in the sun.
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It is not dependent on the sun, but the sun on it.
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The gaseest matter was at first informed i e had had no forces. God
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imparted to it the law of gravitation, by means of which the various particles
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of matter were set into motion and drawn together, and thus were condensed gradually
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into a solid mass. By the process of warmth, and at last fire
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were developed. On the first day, fire, the main source of light,
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was produced by the movement given into the gasseut particles, and the existing
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vapor was condisceed into masses endowed with fire and light. On the second day,
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God made the firmament. The words of Genesis are. God said,
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let there be a firmament made amidst the waters, and let it divide the
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waters from the waters. And God called the firmament Heaven. On this day
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there was a separation, arrangement, and establishment of the created masses, which
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were divided into parts according to their constitution and magnitude, parted from one another,
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and arranged in various places that God had destined for them. This planting
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of the various worlds and their places in space constituted the firmament, which God
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called Heaven, in which the Sun and moon and stars pursue the course that
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was allotted to each. This firmament is the material heaven, as opposed to
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the spiritual heaven, which is identical with the celestial paradise. The Earth on
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which we live was one of the condensed masses, which took its place among
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the other heavenly bodies. God at the same time divide off off the planets
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and moved around. God at the same time divide off the planets that moved
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around the Sun, which forms the center of their system. From the fixed
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stars. On the third day, God made the dry land and the plants.
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Here, the sacred Writer concerns himself more especially with our Earth. The
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Earth, which was originally a fire ball of gas. Fiery ball of gas
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gradually lost its heat and cooled down. In the midst of space. The
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great masses of mitst mist divide themselves into the sea and the land. The
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solid elements were drawn together and formed the crust of the Earth Earth, through
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which the water forced itself from within. Thus were made the various oceans or
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seas. And by this upheaval, the surface of the Earth as it exists
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at present was gradually formed, with its continents and islands, its mountains and
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valleys. Under the influence of the warmth of the earth, the moist surface
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was now ready for the development of organic life. This did not arise out
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of nothing, like the original primary matter. It was already implanted in the
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Earth by Almighty God, and was evolved the fare from as soon as circumstances
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favorable to its development presented themselves. No organic life can arise from mere inorganic
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matter. No possible combination of mere inorganic elements can ever produce any kind of
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organic life. It's a very valid point that many people miss when they're talking
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about evolution and the origin of the species and such. The original germs out
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of which life arose were already existing in the vapor cloud out of which the
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Earth was formed, but were not able to develop themselves under the conditions of
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extreme heat and cold. They remained as undeveloped germs until the more moderate temperature
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enabled them to produce plants and trees under the influence of warmth and moisture.
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On the fourth day, God made the sun, moon and stars. On
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the fourth day of creation, the Earth, which had been involved in darkness
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by the thick mists that surrounded it as long as it had not fully cooled
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down, began to have a clearer atmosphere, and only a few clouds floated
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over its surface instead of a dense vapor that it had encircled it. The
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shining bodies in the heaven became visible when the Sun begin to exercise an influence
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upon the Earth and produce the alterations of day and night and the various seasons
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of the year. The sun had previously provided a feeble power of radiation,
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but during this fourth period it assumed its present form. We did not know
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whether there exists living beings on any of the stars. If there are such,
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they must be of a very different nature. Sure of our own.
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We know that in the Moon there is no atmosphere, no fire, no
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water, no sound, no rain, no wind, no vegetation in a
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long night of three hundred and fifty hours. No, it's that interesting.
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Even in the eighteen nineties, what do the Catholic Church say. We accept
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the scientific aspects of evolution of life forms changing over time, we don't believe
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that's the origin of the species. Same thing it teaches now. And we
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don't know if there's life on other planets, and it's really of no concern
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to us. So you know, everybody gets all worked up over aliens and
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such, and I'm just like, yeah, whatever, I mean, if
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they're there, they've been there as least as long as we've been here,
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and they haven't bothered us yet. They're probably not going to bother us in
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the future. Whatever. You know, if there's intelligent life on another planet
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that worships the same God we do, if it's intelligent, and if it's
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as stupid as many the human beings are, then it can be just as
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confused. On the fifth day, God made the fishes and the birds.
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On the sixth day God made the animals, and last of all men.
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The animals were next made in order to proclaim the power of their creator by
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their number, variety, greatness, and strength and cleverness, and also to
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serve man, to nourish him, to clothe him, and to labor for
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his benefit. You see, man is the crown of creation. As the
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Church used to more boldly teach, all in nature serves man. Man does
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not serve nature, something we seem to have forgotten. Man was produced.
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Let's see, Man was produced, the last of all the animals, and
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surpass them in all dignity and the possession of reason and free will. Man
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is the crown of God's creation. God prepared the world for his reception that
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he might enter and take possession of it as a king takes possession of his
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kingdom. The world would not have been complete without Man. All else was
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made for his sake. In all the rest of the work of creation,
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God simply said, let it be. But before he created man, he
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is represented to taking counsel with himself. This is to show the importance and
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the dignity of man. On the seventh day, God rested from all his
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work that he had done. God's rest consists in this that on the seventh
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day he brought nothing more into existence. It was the working out without any
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further creative action on the part of God, of the order that he had
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established. The fact that God rested does not mean that he ceased from working.
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As a reference to John five point seventeen, God must continue to work
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in the world, else it would cease to exist. As God rested after
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his work, so we shall rest in him when our work is done.
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From the story of Creation, we learned that God made the world after a
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fixed plan. God in creation proceeds from the lower to the higher. He
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first made all things that were necessary for what would afterwards come into life.
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E g. He made first the plants and then the animals, and needed
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them for food. The first three days he separated the various parts of the
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world from each other. In the three following days he developed an adorned creation.
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The first three days correspond to the three last, for on the first
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he made light and on the fourth luminous bodies. On the second he separated
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water and air from each other, And on the fifth he filled the water
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and fishes, and the air with birds. He filled the water with fishes,
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in the air with birds. On the third he made the dry land.
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On the six he filled with animals. From the account of creation,
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we also learned that the world is not eternal. The Heathen thought the world
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sprung from the accidental occurrence of a number of eternal atoms. But the present
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wonderful order could not possibly have arisen by chance, And the atoms are all
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dependent on one another, and therefore could not be eternal. The atoms,
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too, could never have put themselves into motion. Others thought that the material
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of the world were eternal, and that God simply arranged them. Others imagined
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that the world was developed out of the divine essence. See that's a pantheist
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way of looking at things. But this would not But this would make the
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world invisible. But this would make the world indivisible and unchangeable. And we
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know that that is not so. God is indeed everywhere, But the world
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is not God. It is something different from him, and separated from his
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being. From what and from what end has God created the world one,
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God the world. God made the world have nothing simply because it pleased him
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to make it. Man can only make anything out of pre existing materials.
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God made the materials. Men have to employ implements, They have to labor
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and require a certain time to produce their work. God spoke and the world
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was made. He did not even need to speak. All that was needed
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was that he should will what he desired to be done. All that God
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created was very good. God himself committed his own works in Genesis one thirty
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one. The world was very good because it in no way diverged from the
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divine idea, but was in perfect accord with it. God praised his own
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works because no one could praise him sufficiently. Because no one else could praise
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them sufficiently. We also should praise God in his works, as the three
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young men in the Fiery Furnace at Babylon. Evil is evil because creature make
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creatures make a bad use of their free will. Nothing that exists can be
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bad in itself, but everything must at least be in some way good.
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As an herbalist, that's something I have to emphasize to people very often.
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Every plant that God made is good. There's no evil plant. We just
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have to know how to properly use it. And the true same is true
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of everything. Point two. God was moved to make the world by his
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great goodness. His object was to make his reasonable creatures happy. As a
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good father shows pictures to his children to please him and make them love him.
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So God has manifested his works to his reasonable creatures to make them happy
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and earn their love. God made all earthly things for good, some for
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the support of men, such as plants and animals, some for their instruction,
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some for their enjoyment, and some for trials, as such as sickness
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and suffering. All things that I see upon the earth, says Saint Augustine,
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proclaim that thou hast made them from love of me, and call upon
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me to love thee. God did not need the world, He made it
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for our sakes. Zero point three. The end of creation is necessarily to
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proclaim to men the glory of God. In every work, we have to
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distinguish between the end of the maker and the work, i e. That
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which moved the artificier to make the work, and the end of the work
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itself, i e. That for which work was destined In a clock.
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The end of the maker of the clock is his own profit. The end
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of the clock is to indicate time in the world. The motive of the
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artificer is God's great goodness. The end of the work is God's glory and
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the happiness of his reasonable creatures. The motive of the countless number and variety
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of living and lifeless beings, and the innumerable number of the stars is that
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angels and men may know and admire the majesty of God. The end and
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object to the existence of angels and men, or that they may unseasoningly behold
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and praise God. Says Saint Augustine, thou hast made us for thyself,
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O God, And how unquiet is our hearts so long as it finds not
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its rest in thee. Even the devils are compared to contribute, in spite
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of themselves, to the glory of God. For by their punishment they show
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us how holy and just God is. And God employs him also for the
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perfection of his elect through resistance to their temptations. Even the lost in hell
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manifests the justice and holiness of God and his hatred of sin. God has
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made all things for himself. The wicked also for the evil days from Proverbs.
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Yet God did not make the world with a view to any increase in
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his glory, For God is infinitely happy in himself and has no need of
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anything or anyone outside of himself. Since we are made from the glory of
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God, we should in all our works have the intention of honoring God.
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Saint Paul instructs us that whether we eat or drink, or whatever we do
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we should do, we should do all to the glory of God. Nothing
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is easier than to give glory to God. Since we can direct our most
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minute actions toward this end. When we wake in the morning and oftentimes during
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the day, we should renew this intention. I guess we'll wrap it up
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there. That's another big, very very involved subject. I want to listen
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to this one twice. There's a lot done back there. I mean,
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in many ways, this is how the creation provides evidence of the Creator and
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the divine order of all that is. And to deny, to just assume
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that all this came about by chance is impossible. I mean, there's harmony,
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such harmony in everything. But anyway, in the world of Saint Padre
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Pio, pray, hope, and don't worry. I maybe you'll get a
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hot drink and I will talk to you all tomorrow, hopefully be a little
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more improved by then. Have a good one.