These texts, read in the context of sacred scripture and the church’s tradition, serve as the principal source for catechesis on the history of the Church and the mysteries of creation, sin, and salvation, expressing in solemn language the truths of humanity's origin, purpose, and destiny. The podcast confronts some philosophical beliefs such as pantheism, which which state that everything is God and the world is to be left behind as well as Gnosticism, which purports that the physical world is evil and a product of a fall.