[Williams]

Spoiler alert, it never happened and was added 500 years later.

[Az Joe]

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Smarten up dummy.

[Just mythoughts]

Spoiler alert, it never happened and was added 500 years later.

And you have any shred of credibility of anything considering the 'Tree of Life'.. You showed your 'primary colors' over the mighty penis playing Z...

[Ann Archy]

Are you for REAL....or just a teenaGER?

[lavaroise]

Word, but St Augustine’s life was around 350...

It was not uncommon in these days to do divination and to create thinking with drawing in the sand, sort of out of the box thinking when tested.

He was being tested for truthfulness and poison like oracle, and he was counter testing them in an oracle drawing of His own.

[ModelBreaker]

“Spoiler alert, it never happened and was added 500 years later.”

It was added to the text much later, as you state. Whether or not it happened is a different question.

[Dr. Sivana]

Spoiler alert, it never happened and was added 500 years later.

Then how was Jerome (who had access to better manuscripts than we have today) to be writing commentaries on it as if it were old news in the early 400s?

[Getready]

Wrong assumption. The earliest document we HAVE is 500 years later after the event.. The document we HAVE may have added the story because other documents (which we DON’T have) preceding it contained the story... Like maybe a document from 150 AD which we don’t have. But since it doesn’t appear in the earliest document it may not belong....but it may belong and be a late addition...