Augustine's error - 001
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His first mistake
Possessing a classical education which included philosophy, rhetoric and grammar as well as a sophisticated and technical understanding of the nature and functioning of language, Augustine desired to convince his educated peers that the Bible was to be respected as fine literature. This was his first mistake.
- 1Co 1:20 Where [is] the wise? where [is] the scribe? where [is] the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
The Bible is not merely fine literature. It is the infinitely sublime wisdom of God which is considered foolishness to the world and which makes the wisdom of the world to be foolishness. By attempting to make it conform to the standards of fine writing, he reduced it and limited discovery to those things which merely human methods could discover.
