“ who is so silly as to believe that God ... planted a paradise eastward in Eden, and set in it a visible and palpable tree of life ... [and] anyone who tasted its fruit with his bodily teeth would gain life?" - Origen of Alexandria.
You would think if literalism was valued the way many fundies do so today, that someone like Origen would have been hung or viewed as a heritical for expressing such sentiments, rather than regarded as one the most praised early church fathers.
You would think if literalism was valued the way many fundies do so today, that someone like Origen would have been hung or viewed as a heritical for expressing such sentiments, rather than regarded as one the most praised early church fathers.
