As you can see from this archived version, …[RNS] gave a bungled translation that had the pope denying God is a “divine being”:
Francis said the beginning of the world was not “a work of chaos” but created from a principle of love. He said sometimes competing beliefs in creation and evolution could co-exist.
““God is not a divine being or a magician, but the Creator who brought everything to life,” the pope said. “Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.”
Got that? Pope Francis, according to RNS, said, “God is not a divine being…”
The context makes it obvious that the pope is not intending by any stretch of the imagination to deny God is a “divine being.” He is, rather, denying that God is a demiurge, i.e. lower-case “builder-god” who merely fashions creatures out of primordial stuff and then leaves them to their own devices. For RNS to not only put the words “God is not a divine being” in the pope’s mouth but also refuse to correct its mistranslation would therefore be simply irresponsible.
But that is exactly what RNS did ”“ for forty-eight hours, even as Mohler and others questioned its translation.
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(GR) Dawn Eden on the very poor religion Coverage of the Pope's recent speech on Evolution
As you can see from this archived version, …[RNS] gave a bungled translation that had the pope denying God is a “divine being”:
Got that? Pope Francis, according to RNS, said, “God is not a divine being…”
The context makes it obvious that the pope is not intending by any stretch of the imagination to deny God is a “divine being.” He is, rather, denying that God is a demiurge, i.e. lower-case “builder-god” who merely fashions creatures out of primordial stuff and then leaves them to their own devices. For RNS to not only put the words “God is not a divine being” in the pope’s mouth but also refuse to correct its mistranslation would therefore be simply irresponsible.
But that is exactly what RNS did ”“ for forty-eight hours, even as Mohler and others questioned its translation.
Read it all.