Hi ,
A friend sent this to me. With so much
compromise going on in the Christian community these days, muddying the waters and diluting the power of the written Word, I found this appropriate, especially given when it was written!
Augustine wrote this in AD 401, in a book entitled, "The Literal Meaning of
Genesis":
"Even a non-Christian knows something of the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and the orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions . . . about the animals, shrubs, stones,
and so forth . . . and this knowledge he holds to as being certain from reason and experience. Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel (a non-Christian) to hear a Christian . . . talk nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian, and laugh it to
scorn."
Non-Christians are going to mock the tenets of Scripture anyway. Why would we add to their reasoning by clinging to a portion of their world view (the "nonsense"), but clinging to Scriptures on others, giving them cause to "laugh it to scorn"?
