RE: Literalism and Autism
September 10, 2019 at 10:24 am
(This post was last modified: September 10, 2019 at 10:26 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Pointing to someone who disagrees will not make that minority viewpoint anything more or less than what it is.
Origen wasn’t credulous enough to believe in the magic garden.....and that’s to his credit.
He did believe that god literally created the material world and in special creation, that fallen souls were inserted into existing human bodies ( hello L. Ron!)...and that decidedly isn’t.
As a contemporary believer you may think that Origen provides justification for denying a literal reading of genesis....that Christianity doesn’t depend on it....but that’s your mistake, not atheists, and not Origens...heretic though he was in so many other ways.
Origen wasn’t credulous enough to believe in the magic garden.....and that’s to his credit.
He did believe that god literally created the material world and in special creation, that fallen souls were inserted into existing human bodies ( hello L. Ron!)...and that decidedly isn’t.
As a contemporary believer you may think that Origen provides justification for denying a literal reading of genesis....that Christianity doesn’t depend on it....but that’s your mistake, not atheists, and not Origens...heretic though he was in so many other ways.
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