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<\/a><\/div>\nUPDATE: For those who may not find it, the quote comes from Augustine\u2019s St. Augustine, De Genesi ad litteram libri duodecim<\/em>, \u201cThe Literal Meaning of Genesis,\u201d Book 1 chapter 19. That is in itself worth highlighting, since it makes even clearer that Augustine could consider the \u201cliteral meaning\u201d important and yet not take it to have the implications that modern-day young-earth creationists do. There is even more irony, since it was Augustine who formulated the understanding of the \u201cFall\u201d in terms of \u201coriginal sin\u201d that has become such a lynch pin of some modern theological systems, that they make a literal historical Adam crucial \u2013 using Augustine\u2019s own theology to justify ignoring his advice in the passage above!<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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