Athanasius of Alexandria Quotes
The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.
Athanasius. "Against the Heathen." Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, vol. 4, edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace, translated by Archibald Robertson, Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1892, p. 4.
Priests at the time were mostly uneducated. They would tend to make up their own Biblical stories that the people would prefer rather than the official church versions. The bishops wanted this practice stopped.
Some Christians believe that man is corrupted by original sin. Therefore no man or group of men, even in a democracy, can reach proper moral judgments. For them, The Bible is the only trustworthy source of morality.
In 1996 the Tennessee Senate passed a resolution to post the Ten Commandments in homes, schools and businesses. Cohen was then a Senator of the Tennessee State Legislature.
Franklin was a deist. He believed in God and the Creation but not the Bible which is often referred to as “revealed” truth. He did believe that classic Christianity was a positive force as some people were led to good works and a moral life by it.
Athanasius I of Alexandria (c. 296–298 – 2 May 373), also called Athanasius the Great, Athanasius the Confessor, or, among Coptic Christians, Athanasius the Apostolic, was a church father and the 20th pope of Alexandria (as Athanasius I). His intermittent episcopacy spanned 45 years (c. 8 June 328 – 2 May 373), of which over 17 encompassed five exiles, when he was replaced on the order of four different Roman emperors. Athanasius was a Christian theologian, a Church Father, the chief defender of Trinitarianism against Arianism, and a noted Egyptian Christian leader of the fourth century.
