Momentous Questions

Some of the questions discussed by the scholastics in the middle ages savored of heresy. The famous query as to how many angels could dance on the point of a needle was probably propounded by a sceptic. So too with such conundrums as Whether angels in going from place to place move over the intermediate space?

Then there was the famous question whether God could make another God like unto himself? and a similar one, if he could become a cucumber or a black-beetle as readily as a man? These were surely the suggestions of wicked sceptics. Such conundrums as whether God could make a harlot into a virgin, and the dispute as to the way in which the Virgin Mary was impregnated were doubtless the outcome of the morbid minds of celibate monks. Protestants ridicule such controversies, but their own disputes as to justification, election, baptism, future punishments, etc. are equally profitless and absurd.--Anon.