>From: gordon brown <gbrown@euclid.colorado.edu>
> It seems that this story has gotten twisted. Augustine's answer was based
> on his assertion that God created time, and he dissociated himself from
> those who would give a facetious answer. Here is a quotation from Book XI
> of The Confessions of Saint Augustine:
>
> See, I answer him that asketh, "What did God before He made heaven and
> earth?" I answer not as one is said to have done merrily (eluding the
> pressure of the question), "He was preparing hell (saith he) for pryers
> into mysteries." It is one thing to answer enquiries, another to make
> sport of enquirers.
Gordon,
Thanks for the info. Augustine deserves to be represented accurately.
Howard Van Till
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