• Nonbelievers and enemies of Catholic
Christianity often
accuse the Church of creating the belief in Mary's
freedom
from original sin "the Immaculate
Conception" in 1854 (as
the Church named the belief of Mary's freedom from
the
wages of sin, death, "the Assumption" in
1950) when the
truths were defined.
Such an error is equivalent to saying that before
Adam named
the animals and birds of creation in Gen 2:19-20
they did not
exist.
• Or that before the early Church in her
Ecumenical Councils
named the belief of three persons in one God
"the Trinity" and
the belief that there are two natures, human and
divine in
the person of Jesus Christ "the
Incarnation," the truths did
not exist.
In naming the content of Divine Revelation after God
has
revealed it to us, the Church reflects a long
Biblical tradition
and practice.