tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766820554494978106.post7260616338782084383..comments2022-12-08T02:30:00.729-08:00Comments on Beginning Theistic Science: No Instant Adults in Theistically Driven EvolutionIan Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13225626428359340605noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766820554494978106.post-34511297361736390172012-02-19T06:10:01.233-08:002012-02-19T06:10:01.233-08:00No instant adulthood? Tang.
The original scriptur...No instant adulthood? Tang.<br /><br /><i>The original scriptures of most religions are poetical and unsystematic. Theology, which generally takes the form of a reasoned commentary on the parables and aphorisms of the scriptures, tends to make its appearance at a later stage of religious history.</i> -- Aldous Huxley<br /><br /><i>When it first begins every Church knows only the general aspects of doctrine, for at that time it is in a state of simplicity and so to speak in childhood. With the passage of time it adds particular aspects, which in part are confirmations of general aspects, in part are additions which do not however conflict with what is general, and also explanations which resolve manifest contradictions but do not in any way offend the dictates of common sense.</i> -- Emanuel Swedenborg<br /><br /><i>It is known that a man learns many things in infancy and childhood for the sole use that by them as means he may learn those which are more useful; and successively by these such as are still more useful, until at last he learns those of eternal life; and when he learns these, the former are almost blotted out. In like manner when a man is being born anew by the Lord, he is led by various affections of good and truth which are not affections of genuine good and truth, but are of use merely to enable us to apprehend these, and then to enable us to become imbued with them; and when this has been done the previous affections are forgotten and left behind, because they had served merely as means.</i> -- ibidAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com