How do Catholic believe the world began?

Answer 1

Depends on a lot of factors as to what they believe, you see Catholics are very fluid and tend to change their minds every few seconds. Not even followers of the religion can keep up with current doctrine, I have in all seriousness been told the stars are pinpricks of light and the devil makes us believe they're suns.

Back to the main question, God created it all, that is their belief. To expand on that, God created it all for US, not to live in or explore, His laws restricting the speed of light saw to that, but to look pretty as we gaze up and marvel at His works. Despite 'pop' Catholicism where a large question mark is put over the heads of possibilities of other life in the universe to attract younger members main stream doesn't believe there is any other life besides us. In fact if you check up it wasn't till relatively recent times they even believed the Earth was over 6000 years old which is where the bibles 'history' places us.

So there you have it, all popped into existence for the benefit of the evil and sinful human race at the will of a supposedly omnipotent God who isn't so omnipotent if he didn't know Adam and Eve were going to do the dirty on him, or just plain nasty if is and did know. Its purpose is to look nice, nothing more, and if you tell my answer to a Catholic they will say the jury is still out amongst their religion and theres no doubt a reason He did this but the 'ways of God are mysterious' (in other words we don't have a clue, faith is the virtue of the ignorant). And all the time they're preaching how the jury is out there will be priests and archbishops telling the younger generation this years latest fictions, passing it off as truth.

For a decent explanation of how the universe was really formed look up the latest on quantum theories, the possibilities of other universes, cosmic string theories, etc. The scientists who came up with all that stuff may or may not be wrong, but at least they admit that and have spent year after year trying their best to work it all out for us and themselves instead of thumbing through an archaic volume written by MEN, not God looking for answers like a student studying computers using cave drawings.

Answer 2

The Catholic beliefs on the origin of the universe are contained in the Catechism, paragraphs 279 - 314, which you can read at the link below. Basically, the teaching of the Church is that God created everything ex nihilo (from nothing). As, obviously, before creation, there was nothing except God, and we didn't come on the scene until after creation, then, of necessity, we can only find out about how this came about from revelation, which is contained in the first several chapters of Genesis. Everything else which science can discover (or thinks that they can discover) will only go back to this initial creation, it cannot go beyond that, and science, itself, has now proved that the universe did have a beginning, before which there was, literally, nothing; so, of necessity, there must be God to bring something out of nothing. An important thing to keep in mind, is that God's creation is continuous, He holds all of creation in existence at every moment - we are contingent beings, we do not possess our own necessity, only God is necessary. So, without God continuing to hold us in existence, we would simply cease to be.

Answer 3

Catholics believe that The Bible story on creation is not a treatise on science or evolution but rather a divinely inspired account of man an woman entering the world. Whether or not there was a big bang millions of light years ago to create the universe or if the world was created in "seven days"is not important to our beliefs - it has nothing to do with God's love and does not change God's message.

Answer 4

God made it.