Third Day Resurrection
Alan Fuller arfuller@rocketmail.com
Mon, 12 Jan 1998 09:52:22 -0800 (PST) (00884649142, 19980112175222.16279.rocketmail@web2.rocketmail.com)
I'll remind you that Augustine had problems with a
literal interpretaion of the creation account back
about the 4th or 5th century. It was explained that
some of the Bible should be interpreted allegorically
and this removed a major obstacle to him becoming a
christian.
AF
---MS FITT <MSFITT@aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 98-01-09 15:23:56 EST, you write:
>
> << I don't know of another book written by over 40
> authors and hundreds of years that addresses the who
> we are, what we are doing here, and where we are
> going. What other ancient book is found in as many
> homes all over the world as the Bible? The Bible
says
> there is meaning and purpose in creation. If there
> is design in our universe, why wouldn't the designer
> give us a book to help us understand it?
>
> The option is, there is no meaning or purpose behind
> design. How and why then do design or organiztion
> come about? >>
>
> A few years ago a few men began to think, to
investigate, to
> reason. They began to doubt the legends of the
church, the miracles
> of the past. They began to notice what happened.
They found that
> eclipses came at certain intervals and that their
coming could be
> foretold. They became satisfied that the conduct of
men had nothing
> to do with eclipses -- and that the stars moved in
their orbits
> unconscious of the sons of men. Galileo,
Copernicus, and Kepler
> destroyed the astronomy of the Bible, and
demonstrated that the
> "inspired" story of creation could not be true, and
that the church
> was as ignorant as the priests were dishonest.
> They found that the myth-makers were mistaken,
that the sun
> and stars did not revolve about the earth, that the
firmament was
> not solid, that the earth was not flat, and that
the so-called
> philosophy of the theologians was absurd and idiotic.
> The stars became witnesses against the creeds
of superstition.
> With the telescope the heavens were explored.
The New
> Jerusalem could not be found.
> It had faded away.
> The church persecuted the astronomers and
denied the facts. In
> February, in the year of grace sixteen hundred, the
Catholic
> Church, the "Triumphant Beast," having in her
hands, her paws, the
> keys of heaven and hell, accused Giordano Bruno of
having declared
> that there were other worlds than this, He was
tried, convicted,
> imprisoned in a dungeon for seven years. He was
offered his liberty
> if he would recant. Bruno, the atheist, the
philosopher, refused to
> stain his soul by denying what he believed to be
true. He was taken
> from his cell by the priests, by those who loved
their enemies, led
> to the place of execution. He was clad in a robe on
which
> representations of devils had been painted -- the
devils that were
> soon to claim his soul. He was chained to a stake
and about his
> body the wood was piled. Then priests, followers of
Christ, lighted
> the fagots and flames consumed the greatest, the
most perfect
> martyr, that ever suffered death.
>
>
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