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Originally Posted by Keith P "The very thing which is now called the Christian religion existed among the ancients also, nor was is wanting from the inception of the human race until the coming of Christ in the flesh, at which point the true religion which was already in existence began to be called Christian."
-St. Augustine, Retractiones |
yeah - read the first few lines of Genesis and of the Gospel of John - he's paraphrasing (I presume) - God was is and always will be before during and after all things....
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Originally Posted by Gospel of John 1:1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 1:2The same was in the beginning with God. 1:3All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made. |
Augustine is, according to one of my philosophy profs, probably the most intelligent person ever to walk the face of the earth... (and he adored the man he reffered to as
The Einstein... so he held Augustine in higher esteem... I find Augustine challenging but fascinating - and I'm way to underread to discuss him any further than that
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