St. Augustine

(354-430 A.D.) Great father of the Christian church, wrote autobiographical "Confessions" Augustine was born at Tagaste in North Africa in 354.His father was a pagan who wanted his son to be a man of learning,and cared little about his character.

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Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts

of the world, about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and distances, . . . and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience. It is thus offensive and disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things, claiming that what he is saying is based in Scripture. We should do all that we can to avoid such an embarrassing situation, lest the unbeliever see only ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn. -- De Genesi ad litteram libri duodecim