But aside from these misinterpretations, once again the Pope has been the victim of a mistranslation. English news reports quote the Pope as saying "God is not a divine being or a magician, but the Creator who brought everything to life."
The Italian word the Pope used that was incorrectly translated as "divine being" is "demiurgo," which translates into English as "demiurge."
This is a Gnostic term, defined by the Random House Dictionary as "a supernatural being imagined as creating or fashioning the world in subordination to the Supreme Being, and sometimes regarded as the originator of evil." The Pope said this is NOT who God is.
