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Subject: Re: Another Augustine quotation
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 00:27:22 +0000 (UTC)
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"Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in message
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>
> > Uncle Davey wrote:
> >
> > > news:cov1r0024b8@drn.newsguy.com...
> > >
> > >> In Augustine's book "De Libero Arbitrario" (which is mostly about
> > >>the problem of evil and free will) he spends chapter 21 of book 3
> > >>talking about the origin of a human's soul. He mentions four
> > >>different theories, and says that he has no strong evidence for
> > >>any of them. He then goes on to say that it is not a matter of
> > >>importance for the Christian:
> > >>
> > >>"So what does it matter to me if I do not know when I began to exist,
> > >>since I know that I exist now, and I do not despair of existing in the
> > >>future? There is no great harm done if I have false beliefs about the
> > >
> > > past,
> > >
> > >>since the past is of no concern to me; I direct my course toward what
I
> am
> > >>going to be, guided by the mercy of my Creator."
> > >>
> > >>from page 113 of
> > >>
> > >>Augustine: On Free Choice of the Will
> > >>translated by Thomas Williams
> > >>Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1993
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > > I am sure there is a certain wisdom in these words and that's why I
have
> > > never said here that you have to believe in a literal six days to be
> saved.
> > >
> > > I happen to believe them, and in the Flood and Babel and a lot of
other
> > > stuff but I am not dogmatic about them.
> > >
> > Only dogma can make you believe in those things, against the background
> > of the overwhelming evidence that they did not happen.
> >
> > Tom
>
> Not really. To me there is a structure of thought and internal
corroboration
> that makes the whole of my system which is coherent to me, and answers
> questions that other systems cannot to my satisfaction.
>
> Uncle Davey
>
>
>
So you are saying that you do not care wether something is real or not....as
long as you get a warm fuzzy feeling ?
--
Steve
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht
oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist
and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you
can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not
raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Fcuknig amzanig huh?
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