Genesis

Question 1

quote from Genesis 1

Answer 1

“in the beginning God created the Heavens and the earth”

Question 2

Quote in Genesis 2

Answer 2

“Adam was made from the dust of the ground”
“god breathed life into adam”

Question 3

Who takes the understanding of the Bible literal?

Answer 3

Fundamental or creationist christians - accurate account of creation.

Question 4

Who takes the understanding of the Bible to be illiterate?

Answer 4

The Catholic Church
Are to be understood alongside reason and science.

Question 5

name what Fundamentalists or creationists believe ab the Bible?

Answer 5

Should be taken literally
Biblical accounts are to be taken as fact.
no alternative or scientific theory is considered.

Question 6

What do Catholics believe?

Answer 6

Understood within the time that they were written.
The genesis account was the authors way of trying to explain what they believed as they had limited knowledge of science and the world.
Interprets the Genesis account alongside science and reason to try and understand the key message. - God is responsible for creation of the world.