Has Francis Collins, an evangelical, and his Organization Biologos Influenced the Southern Baptist Position on Evolution?

[Marshall (Janzen)]

@Mervin_Bitikofer

You’re probably thinking of St. Augustine.

No, Augustine was a Latin writer from the West. He’s probably thinking of Methodius:

First mention of "The Fall" - Coined by a Greek Church Father: Methodius of Olympus

In the book “The Story of Original Sin” by John Toews (2013), we read: “. . . the term “the fall” was first used with certainty . . . by the Greek church father Methodius of Olympus, late third or early fourth century (d. 311), as a reaction to Origen’s [typo corrected!] teaching of a pre-natal fall in the transcendent world. . . . . Why is it profoundly significant that this much later Christian and Greek “fall” construal is not stated or even suggested in the [Hebrew] text? Because that m…