II. God the Creator
- All that exists outside God was, in its whole substance, produced out of nothing by God.
- God was moved by His goodness to create the world.
- The world was created for the glorification of God.
- The Three Divine Persons are one single, common principle of creation.
- God created the world free from exterior compulsion and inner necessity.
- God has created a good world.
- The world had a beginning in time.
- God alone created the world.
- God keeps all created things in existence.
- God, through His Providence, protects and guides all that He has created.
- The first man was created by God.
- Man consists of two essential parts - a material body and a spiritual soul.
- The rational soul per se is the essential form of the body.
- Every human being possesses an individual soul.
- God has conferred on man a supernatural destiny.
- Our first parents, before the fall, were endowed with sanctifying grace.
- In addition to sanctifying grace, our first parents were endowed with the preternatural gift of bodily immortality.
- Our first parents in Paradise sinned grievously through transgression of the Divine probationary commandment.
- Through sin our first parents lost sanctifying grace and provoked the anger and the indignation of God.
- Our first parents became subject to death and to the dominion of the devil.
- Adam's sin is transmitted to his posterity, not by imitation but by descent.
- Original sin is transmitted by natural generation.
- In the state of original sin man is deprived of sanctifying grace and all that this implies, as well as of the preternatural gifts of integrity.
- Souls who depart this life in the state of original sin are excluded from the Beatific Vision of God.
- In the beginning of time God created spiritual essences (angels) out of nothing.
- The nature of angels is spiritual.
- The evil spirits (demons) were created good by God; they became evil through their own fault.
- The secondary task of the good angels is the protection of men and care for their salvation.
- The devil possesses a certain dominion over mankind by reason of Adam's sin.
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