The Augustinian Creed - Lie as Needed
By: Robert Baird
From Bobik’s On Aquinas and Form
Here is the crux of the matter and propaganda laid out by Augustine. “In q.73, Aquinas asks: UTRUM competio divinorum operum debeat septimo diei ascribi. The Scriptures say explicitly of the seventh day: ‘On the seventh day God completed His work which He had made’ (Genesis, 2, 2). Here, as throughout his reflections on the initial production of things by God, Aquinas proceeds with Augustine’s teaching on scriptural interpretation in mind, namely THIS teaching, which emphasizes TWO points:
As Augustine teaches, ‘two’ things are to be observed in questions of this kind. The first is this; to hold to the truth of Scripture unwaveringly. The second is this, since Divine Scripture can be interpreted in many ways; not to adhere so tenaciously to a given exposition of it as to presume to assert it as the meaning of Scripture, if it has been shown with certitude to be false; lest Scripture be ridiculed by those who do not believe, and obstacles be placed in the way of their becoming believers.”(9)
This is current teaching from Notre Dame University. They still don’t want to get in the way of ‘true believers’ even though they don’t believe in the seven day fiction. It would be better to teach the truth wouldn’t it?
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