“...Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for a non-believer to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn”
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I’ve thought several times about this quote since you posted it.
Why should it not apply to the resurrection?
Don’t “non-Christians knows something about” life, death, medicine and soforth? Enough to know that men don’t rise from the dead.
If I remember, Paul was “laughed to scorn” for believing in the resurrection.
The difference is that sensible Christians do not take the miraculous as a rule to interpret nature. Merely maintaining that Christ rose from the dead on the third day does not by itself prove that anyone else will.
Seizing upon one of a number of possible interpretations of Scripture as the necessarily correct one and bending science and the observations of the senses in an attempt to support the infallibility of that intepretation is what brings the ridicule on Christians in general about which St. Augustine was writing.