The following teachings support a different understanding:
1. God revealed to man Himself and His teachings, especially through Moses who set forth in writing all that God told to Him from a cloud. This included the first five books of the Bible and knowledge was given about the origination of men called 'gods' who were the offspring of angels and women, written about in
Genesis 6. This would be your Titans and other Greek and Roman gods (who were cast into hell) with satan or Lucifer as he became known.
This is also known from the book of Jude, that there was a rebellion in heaven caused by Lucifer and he tempted other angels to engage in practices that were against God.
2. It was thought that this rebellion of Lucifer, the angel of Light, stemmed from the revelation to the angels by God the Father, of His Son (we know Him as Jesus) whom the Lord Father begot from his own beingness before the world began.
This has been an inspired testimony of ancient Fathers but not written in the Bible.
3. It has likewise been handed down from the teachings of the Early Fathers that God has no beginning and no end, always was and always will be. Scholars of the Divine Theology have held with this understanding for many milennia.
4. It is in the study of God that man finds his true purpose. Here is what God said in Genesis:
:26. And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.
[Let us make man to our image... This image of God in man, is not in the body, but in the soul; which is a spiritual substance, endued with understanding and free will. God speaketh here in the plural number, to insinuate the plurality of persons in the Deity. ]
1:27. And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them.
1:28. And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.
[Man was made to cultivate the earth and serve God in His Creation.]
So in summary we have:
GOD (There are three persons in God: Father, Son and Holy Ghost]
Angels and the Heavenly abode
Universe including stars, galaxies, planets
Human Life
Ancient Titans and god-like creatures
Destruction of the earth by flood
Repopulation of the earth through Noe
GENESIS:
This book is so called from its treating of the Generation, that is, of the creation and the beginning of the world. The Hebrews call it Beresith, from the word with which it begins. It contains not only the history of the Creation of the world; but also an account of its progress during the space of 2369 years, that is, until the death of Joseph. (For more information, see the article PENTATEUCH in the Catholic Encyclopedia.)
Genesis Chapter 1. God createth Heaven and Earth, and all things therein, in six days.
Genesis Chapter 2. God resteth on the seventh day and blesseth it. The earthly paradise, in which God placeth man. He commandeth him not to eat of the tree of knowledge. And formeth a woman of his rib.
Genesis Chapter 3. The serpent's craft. The fall of our first parents. Their punishment. The promise of a Redeemer.
Genesis Chapter 4. The history of Cain and Abel.
Genesis Chapter 5. The genealogy, age, and death of the Patriarchs, from Adam to Noe. The translation of Henoch.
Genesis Chapter 6. Man's sin is the cause of the deluge. Noe is commanded to build the ark.
Genesis Chapter 7. Noe with his family go into the ark. The deluge overflows the earth.
Genesis Chapter 8. The deluge ceaseth. Noe goeth out of the ark, and offereth a sacrifice. God's covenant to him.
Genesis Chapter 9. God blesseth Noe: forbiddeth blood, and promiseth never more to destroy the world by water. The blessing of Sem and Japheth.
Genesis Chapter 10. The genealogy of the children of Noe, by whom the world was peopled after the flood.
Genesis Chapter 11. The tower of Babel. The confusion of tongues. The genealogy of Sem down to Abram.
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Genesis Chapter 1
God createth Heaven and Earth, and all things therein, in six days.
1:1. In the beginning God created heaven, and earth.
1:2. And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.
1:3. And God said: Be light made. And light was made.
1:4. And God saw the light that it was good; and he divided the light from the darkness.
1:5. And he called the light Day, and the darkness Night; and there was evening and morning one day.
1:6. And God said: Let there be a firmament made amidst the waters: and let it divide the waters from the waters.
[A firmament... By this name is here understood the whole space between the earth, and the highest stars. The lower part of which divideth the waters that are upon the earth, from those that are above in the clouds. ]
1:7. And God made a firmament, and divided the waters that were under the firmament, from those that were above the firmament, and it was so.
1:8. And God called the firmament, Heaven; and the evening and morning were the second day.
1:9. God also said; Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it was so done.
1:10. And God called the dry land, Earth; and the gathering together of the waters, he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
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Genesis Chapter 6
Man's sin is the cause of the deluge. Noe is commanded to build the ark.
6:1. And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,
6:2. The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.
6:3. And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
6:4. Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown.
6:5. And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,
6:6. It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart,
6:7. He said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them.
6:8. But Noe found grace before the Lord.
From the Epistle of the Apostle Jude (Letter)
1:4. For certain men are secretly entered in (who were written of long ago unto this judgment), ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God into riotousness and denying the only sovereign Ruler and our Lord Jesus Christ.
1:5. I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwards destroy them that believed not.
1:6. And the angels who kept not their principality but forsook their own habitation, he hath reserved under darkness in everlasting chains, unto the judgment of the great day.
[Principality... That is, the state in which they were first created, their original dignity. ]
1:7. As Sodom and Gomorrha and the neighbouring cities, in like manner, having given themselves to fornication and going after other flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
1:8. In like manner, these men also defile the flesh and despise dominion and blaspheme majesty
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