Alan Fuller's beliefs
Alan Fuller arfuller@rocketmail.com
Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:01:42 -0800 (PST) (00884653302, 19980112190142.5760.rocketmail@attach1.rocketmail.com)
You are obviously more familiar with these things
than I am. But who knows, if you or I go mad some
day does that disprove everything we ever did. My
own beloved father was not particularly interested in
religion, but was considered a "solid" person by his
neighbors and family. He died of cancer earlier this
year. His illness caused him to do and say some
strange things before he passed away. My
mother-in-law was the same but worse. I'm don't know
what caused Augustine to go mad, but the little I've
read of his writings seemed very logical.
AF
---Steven Carr <steven@bowness.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> In message
<19980109211436.29167.rocketmail@web2.rocketmail.com>,
Alan
> Fuller <arfuller@rocketmail.com> writes
> <skip>
>
> >I am against "literalism." That is the belief of
> >fundamentalist and, as far as I can tell, atheist.
> >Origen may have taught some strnage things, but he
> >learned that the Bible was more than a book of
> >literal narratives and instructions. Augustine
> >picked up on that. I will make a post later.
>
> Didn't Origen say something like only an idiot
believed that when the
> Bible was talking about the king of Assyria, it
was really taking about
> the king of Assyria? Do you agree with him that
large parts of the Books
> of Kings are not to be taken literally?
>
>
> Augustine appeared to be quite mad. I can happily
post his exposition on
> the meaning of the 153 fish caught in John 21, if
you *really* wish to
> defend Augustine as a rational thinker. Before you
look up his 'answer',
> perhaps you can explain to us why the 153
represented the Holiness of
> the Church. I'll give you a start... 'the creature
corresponds to the
> number 7 (because 3 is assigned to the soul and 4
to the body), so the
> Lord's assumption of humanity is calculated at 3 x
7'. The rest should
> be easy.
>
> Why should we take Augustine seriously when he
wrote book after book of
> gibberish?
>
>
>
> --
> Steven Carr steven@bowness.demon.co.uk
> Visit the UK's leading atheist Web page
> http://www.bowness.demon.co.uk/
>
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