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Original Sin 18 – Seminal Reasons

By Scott | Published: March 13, 2010
I want to begin this post in the series with a disclaimer. I have had a deep love for the history of ancient and classical Greece, its gods, its plays, and its literature for most of my life. By the time I finished fourth grade, I remember having read Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, Bulfinch’s Mythology, the [...]
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On the Incarnation of the Word 2 – Erroneous Views of Creation Rejected

By Scott | Published: August 25, 2009
In the next section, Athanasius briefly considers and rejects erroneous views of Creation. Two examples follow that always catch my eye. For some say that all things have come into being of themselves, and in a chance fashion; as, for example, the Epicureans, who tell us in their self-contempt, that universal providence does not exist, [...]
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