Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: Claud
This is what St. Augustine taught; this is the Catholic and Apostolic faith.

I think I just postred some of his teachings.

We are on the same track.

51 posted on 08/19/2018 6:21:19 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies ]


To: Elsie
I think I just postred some of his teachings. We are on the same track.

I don't think we are on the same page. Well, maybe on Calvinists (I am not sure what your views are), but I can tell you flat out, if there was stuff in Augustine's writings that was inimical to Catholicism, then he wouldn't have been canonized, period, like Origen and Tertullian.

I keep saying this and no one will answer it, and I understand why because there is no good answer to it.

If Calvin just based his theology on Augustine....then how come he wasn't a bishop like Augustine? Why did Calvin repudiate the Mass that Augustine said? Where are the religious orders in Calvinism, that Augustine wrote rules for? Why couldn't the Calvinist Pilgrims even abide Christmas, when we have Augustine's sermons for Christmas and other feasts of the liturgical year, including the saints and martyrs?

The idea that Calvin was just following Augustine is positively delusional. Yes, there are some points of similarity on grace...but that's where it ends.

63 posted on 08/20/2018 2:26:43 AM PDT by Claud
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson