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| − | 'If anyone shall set the authority of Holy Writ against clear and manifest reason, he who does this knows not what he has undertaken; for he opposes to the truth not the meaning of the Bible, which is beyond his comprehension, but rather his own interpretation; not what is in the Bible, but what he has found in himself and imagines to be there'<ref>[http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/galileo.html What were Galileo's scientific and biblical conflicts with the Church?] </ref> - [[St. Augustine]] | + | 'If anyone shall set the authority of Holy Writ against clear and manifest reason, he who does this knows not what he has undertaken; for he opposes to the truth not the meaning of the Bible, which is beyond his comprehension, but rather his own interpretation; not what is in the Bible, but what he has found in himself and imagines to be there'<ref>[http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/galileo.html What were Galileo's scientific and biblical conflicts with the Church?]</ref> - [[St. Augustine]] |
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Latest revision as of 19:02, July 13, 2016
'If anyone shall set the authority of Holy Writ against clear and manifest reason, he who does this knows not what he has undertaken; for he opposes to the truth not the meaning of the Bible, which is beyond his comprehension, but rather his own interpretation; not what is in the Bible, but what he has found in himself and imagines to be there'[1] - St. Augustine