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Describe how Catholics interpret the creation stories in Genesis. (5)
Catholics generally interpret the creation stories in Genesis in a non-literal way; either conservative or liberal. This means that they don't take the Bible word for word but interpret it as teachings and symbolic stories. Many Catholics use the Bible to say why God created and use science to explain how. They might believe that Genesis says that God created everything and that he did this out of love, giving us choices and opportunities but through the Big Bang. In the first Genesis story, where God creates the universe in six days, Catholics interpret each day as being longer than 24 hours. Even in Psalm 10:4 it says that "a thousand years are a single day". By interpreting the Bible in this way we can see how things are created by God over longer periods of time which may work with the theories from science. Catholics may also use these stories to discover what God is like: that God is transcendent, omnipotent and omnibenevolent; that he gave us all a purpose to fulfil, a special role in life. 5/5
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