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HoP 111 - Papa Don't Teach - Augustine on Language

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Is God the Father's Creative Act to Induce Knowledge?

No human teacher will ever be giving you knowledge. All the teacher can give you is belief and encouragement to consider things for yourself. Any knowledge you get from this process is not innate, but comes from God himself. So when you look at a giraffe to see whether it is tall, you are depending on God's creative act to make it possible for you to gain knowledge. This inner truth by whose light we achieve knowledge is nothing other than God dwelling within us.

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