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From The Catechism of the Catholic Church

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the beginning the Christian faith has been challenged by responses to the
question of origins that differ from its own. Ancient religions and cultures
produced many myths concerning origins. Some philosophers have said that
everything is God, that the world is God, or that the development of the world
is the development of God (Pantheism). Others have said that the world is a
necessary emanation arising from God and returning to him. Still others have
affirmed the existence of two eternal principles, Good and Evil, Light and
Darkness, locked, in permanent conflict (Dualism, Manichaeism). According to
some of these conceptions, the world (at least the physical world) is evil, the
product of a fall, and is thus to be rejected or left behind (Gnosticism). Some
admit that the world was made by God, but as by a watch-maker who, once he has
made a watch, abandons it to itself (Deism). Finally, others reject any
transcendent origin for the world, but see it as merely the interplay of matter
that has always existed (Materialism). All these attempts bear witness to the
permanence and universality of the question of origins. This inquiry is
distinctively human.

PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH

SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
- CHAPTER ONE I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER
  - Article 1 “I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY, CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH”
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