5-Very good refers to God, who is very good, or to Torah, or to Moses. (Midrash Alefbet) 6-Rabbi Hiyya said very good means perfect, and thus creation should remain unchanged forever.

And on the seventh time the phrase is even stronger: “God saw all that He had made, and it was very good”. On June 18, Pope Francis’s first encyclical letter was presented to the diplomatic ...

But also remember that God made the world for all, not for a few, and to have a sense (and this is what really gives us the ability to begin to carry out that beatitude: Blessed are the poor) that ...

But the world God made remains a fallen and unjust place, engulfed by the flames of malice and deceit. Perhaps, then, God is not possessed of both the goodness and power we naively ascribe to him.

If we apply this same poetic logic to humanity, a case can be made for sex and gender diversity built into the very fabric of creation. A creative diversity categorically called “good” by God ...