augustine

This is a thread for those that have the strongest faith, since these questions have "stumbled" many since Augustine. Some religions define faith as not your own belief, but belief that God has given to you. Therefore, only those that are given faith are saved (Single Predestination), and the...

In the following paragraph (from here: Philip Schaff: ANF03. Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian - Christian Classics Ethereal Library): "In St. Augustine’s time, when moral theology became systematized in the West, by his mighty genius and influence, the following were...

Lets look at some verses together, that are life changing within their personal application. - - "when i am weak, then i am strong." Now let me give you a unique understanding of this verse which will help you go deeper into the true understanding of God's Blood Atonement, that is KEY to...

In reading a thread on whether or not our Lord Jesus Christ is actually St. Michael the Archangel (he isn’t), I came across this post, which I felt interesting enough to warrant a thread, as I believe, as did Martin Luther and John Calvin, that this is a grave mistake and also points to one of...

I just got curious about that.

Often we see an argument made, a sort of fallacy of association, that because there are different religions and mythologies, this is somehow problematic for the idea of Christian truths. To me, I see it in the opposite light. For man has always had a religious bent, a mythological narrative...

And how does is it different from Western Christianity?

"Once I realized how many miracles were occurring in our own day and which were so like the miracles of old and also how wrong it would be to allow the memory of these marvels of divine power to perish from among our people. It is only two years ago that the keeping of records was begun here in...

Hello all, I have spent the last several weeks studying the Eucharist, specifically reading the Early Church Fathers (ECFs) to get a handle on what they believed about it with regard to the Real Presence. As a Protestant, I was stunned to find many seemingly obvious statements exhibiting a...

Catholic creationist John Larson: "It should also be carefully noted that the rationes seminales of Saints Augustine and Thomas Aquinas have nothing to do with evolution, and are diametrically opposed to it." Also: << This absolutely negates the “evolution” of one substance into another, and...

Hi everyone! Ive started a youtube history channel with the main goal to refute and explain populare misconseptions regarding the historical relationship between science and christianity. Ive just made a video debunking the myth that the early christian church destroyed the achievements the...