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To: Nikas777
I forget who it was but I am sure someone knows who it was.

Augustine said that the creation account in Genesis was a condescension to our limited understanding.

Obviously, he was influenced by 19th Century German liberal Protestants in this. As everyone knows.

129 posted on 08/31/2009 10:09:01 AM PDT by Campion ("President Barack Obama" is an anagram for "An Arab-backed Imposter")
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To: Campion

Thank you. I have limited memory skills in the AM.


132 posted on 08/31/2009 10:13:42 AM PDT by Nikas777 (En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
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To: Campion
Augustine said that the creation account in Genesis was a condescension to our limited understanding.

Obviously, he was influenced by 19th Century German liberal Protestants in this. As everyone knows.

The non-literalism of Augustine on Genesis is well-known to all. Unless for some reason you regard him as the sole authority on this issue I see little reason for the continual using of him as a club.

I hope you also reject such childish supernaturalisms as the virgin birth and the resurrection of J*sus, btw. Things like this simply don't happen, so they couldn't have. That's the way the reasoning goes, isn't it?

137 posted on 08/31/2009 10:18:27 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator ('Arammi 'oved 'Avi vayered Mitzraymah vayagor sham bimtei me`at; vayhi-sham legoy gadol `atzum varav)
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