On May 24, 2:28 pm, Brother Love <
BrotherLove4TheL...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, 23 May 2013 20:25:50 -0700, Jeanne Douglas
> <hlwdj...@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
> >In article <
bs1tp8d8gqpre9k0e54cns01fb2t2v4...@4ax.com>,
> > Brother Love <
BrotherLove4TheL...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >> On Wed, 22 May 2013 22:55:58 -0700 (PDT), SkyEyes <
skyey...@cox.net>
> But God's Word is never mistaken, dear Jeanne.
From
http://www.pibburns.com/augustin.htm giving the wise words of St
Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 28 August 430), one of the early
church fathers.
Dare you read and can you understand them?
"Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the
heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and
orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about
the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years
and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so
forth, and this knowledge he hold to as being certain from reason and
experience. Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an
infidel 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. The shame is
not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people
outside the household of faith think our sacred writers held such
opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we
toil,
the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned
men. If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they
themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions
about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters
concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life,
and
the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of
falsehoods and on facts which they themselves have learnt from
experience and the light of reason? Reckless and incompetent
expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their
wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false
opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the
authority of our sacred books. For then, to defend their utterly
foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon
Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages
which they think support their position, although they understand
neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertion.
[1 Timothy 1.7]"
Wombat
Snip sanctimonious twaddle