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History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science

CHAPTER XII
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They have confounded human science and divine faith.
"But the Church, the Mother and Mistress of nations, is ever ready to strengthen the weak, to take to her bosom those that return, and carry them on to better things.

And, now the bishops of the whole world being gathered together in this Oecumenical Council, and the Holy Ghost sitting therein, and judging with us, we have determined to declare from this chair of St.Peter the saving doctrine of Christ, and proscribe and condemn the opposing errors.
"OF GOD, THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS .-- The Holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church believes that there is one true and living God, Creator and Lord of Heaven and Earth, Almighty, Eternal, Immense, Incomprehensible, Infinite in understanding and will, and in all perfection.

He is distinct from the world.

Of his own most free counsel he made alike out of nothing two created creatures, a spiritual and a temporal, angelic and earthly.

Afterward he made the human nature, composed of both.
Moreover, God by his providence protects and governs all things, reaching from end to end mightily, and ordering all things harmoniously.
Every thing is open to his eyes, even things that come to pass by the free action of his creatures." "OF REVELATION .-- The Holy Mother Church holds that God can be known with certainty by the natural light of human reason, but that it has also pleased him to reveal himself and the eternal decrees of his will in a supernatural way.


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