Augustine’s Carnal Weaponization of Christianity
By James Sundquist
“Augustine is so wholly within me, that if I wished to write a confession of my
faith, I could do so with all fullness and satisfaction to myself out of his writings.”
John Calvin https://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/institutes.v.xxiv.html
I can certainly understand the need to teach what Augustine taught, like you would teach
what Darwin taught and what Evolution teaches, and what Karl Marx taught regarding
Socialism, but you would do so to expose and mark them, not promote them. So I
would think that Conservative Christian and Baptist seminaries and Baptist Church
denominations would be the last people on earth to promote Augustine. So I can’t help
but ask if pastors and professors ever told their members and students the rest of the
story about Augustine, in obedience to the Apostle Paul that commanded us to “expose
the deeds of darkness,” not conceal them, as follows:
- The Roman Catholic Church considers him one the Four Ecumenical
Doctors and Founding Fathers of Roman Catholicism - Augustine himself stated that if it were not for CATHOLICISM he would
not have found the Gospel. He was either a Founding Father, or Collaborator,
and/or Co-Conspirator of these Doctrine of Demons and Seducing Spirits: - Allegorical (Subjective) vs. Literal (Objective) meaning of Scripture,
particularly Creation Week in Genesis. See my article:
Does God Expect Man to be able to Tell Time
http://nwcreation.net/articles/theageofearth.html
Also exposes Dr. Hugh Ross who promotes Augustine
“It not infrequently happens that something about the earth…may be known
with the greatest certainty by reasoning or by experience, even by one who
is not a Christian. It is too disgraceful and ruinous, though, and greatly to be
avoided, that he [the non-Christian] should hear a Christian speaking so
idiotically on these matters, and as if in accord with Christian writings,
that he might say that he could scarcely keep from laughing when he saw
how totally in error they are. In view of this and in keeping it in mind
constantly while dealing with the book of Genesis, I have, insofar as I was
able, explained in detail and set forth for consideration the meanings of
obscure passages, taking care not to affirm rashly some one meaning to the
prejudice of another and perhaps better explanation.” Augustine of Hippo
SOURCE: The Literal Interpretation of Genesis 1:19–20, Chapt. 19 [AD
408]
4 Defied the warning of the Apostle Peter with his private interpretation of
Scripture and subjective eisegesis: “Knowing this first, that no prophecy of
the scripture is of any private interpretation.” 2 Peter 1:20.
- Purgatory and Works Salvation and Sanctification, which is the Doctrine of
Non-Justification by Faith Alone, and thereby defying Christ’s own word on the
Cross by teaching “It is Unfinished” (but rather finished in this life and the life to
come). Augustine could have prevented Indulgences from ever gaining traction in
Roman Catholicism by renouncing Purgatory as a myth, so that there would never
have been a place to spring saints from. The Apostles Paul and Peter renounced
myths and fables, Augustine promoted them. We would all be well to take Paul
and Peter’s advice. But what happens is a host of pastors would even say they
oppose Augustine, yet continue to promote myriads of his teachings. The Bible
calls this “double-minded…unstable in all their ways.” James 1:8. In modern
vernacular we call this “waffling.” They might even agree with this list of reasons
why Augustine was not a saint, but then claim he was “saved” (how could he be
saved by becoming a Roman Catholic), “a good theologian” and “we are
Augustinian?” See this article:
Can a Roman Catholic be Saved?:
https://carm.org/are-roman-catholics-christian.
One Baptist pastor who taught at Baptist Seminary who said these very words also
insisted on diminishing the Old Testament, with particular contempt for the Book
of Numbers and Leviticus. Yet this same pastor pushes tithing from the pulpit and
weekly cites Malachi 10:3 regarding tithing. But these books clearly spell out why
tithing can’t be a Christian Doctrine. Had he properly taught these Books of the
Bible, the church members would be properly equipped. Also see:
Blasphemy of Purgatory
http://thesewordsmin.blogspot.com/2011/10/blasphemy-of-purgatory.html
Augustine perverted Doctrine of Penal Substitutionary Atonement:
“Does this mean then that his Son was already so reconciled to us that he
was even prepared to die for us, while the Father was still so angry with us
that unless the Son died for us he would not be reconciled to us?… Would
the Father have not spared his own Son but handed him over for us, if he
had not already been reconciled? … I observe that the Father loved us not
merely before the Son died for us, but before he founded the world…”
Augustine, xiii [of De Trinitate]
And even if one were to fully concede that Augustine published a statement that
was clear that he believed that Christ died to appease his Father’s wrath, etc.,
because he also believed in Purgatory, as did C.S. Lewis, this would nullify PSA,
because it would no longer be “it is finished” because we have to finish it in
Purgatory, at least those who couldn’t first make it to Heaven, according to this
nefarious teaching. At least C. S. Lewis was consistent re Penal Substitutionary
Atonement, because the insufficiency of the Blood of Christ in this life and the
life to come (Purgatory), so that the balance of our sentence would have to be
paid by us. Many Protestants and Evangelicals were led to convert to Roman
Catholicism because of C.S. Lewis and his writings. See these links for evidence:
Catholic Sources:
C. S. Lewis and Catholic Converts
http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/2724/cs_lewis_and_catholic
_converts.aspx
and
My Path to Rome
http://www.catholiceducation.org/en/religion-and-philosophy/apologetics/my-path-
to- rome.html
Evangelical Sources:
C. S. Lewis and Evangelicals in the Church Today
http://www.wayoflife.org/free_ebooks/downloads/CS_Lewis p.php and
The Chronicles of Narnia Wholesome Entertainment or Gateway to Paganism
I personally knew someone who attributed their conversion from being an
Evangelical to Roman Catholicism in great part to C. S. Lewis.
- Millennialism, Amillennialism, and Dominionism
Augustine taught that there is no literal thousand year period reign of Christ on the
earth when he returns, contrary to Scripture. He was originally Premillennial but
retracted this view as being “carnal.” In fact, Augustine systematized
Millennialism in the 4
th
Century.
See Leonard Verduin’s books exposing Augustine, the Father of Dominionism:
The Anatomy of a Hybrid The Reformers and Their Stepchildren
I searched for months to find books opposing Augustine’s teachings and
couldn’t find any authors except defenders of him. So I want to thank and honor
with a special thanks to Sarah Leslie, researcher and Director of:
h ttp://christianresearchnetwork.org/author/sarah-h-leslie/ for leading me to this
source. I am so glad someone in the last hundred years told the whole truth about
him!
- Apostolic Succession…if this is true, then signs and wonders couldn’t end or
cease. This would nullify or make the Reformation impossible, Apostolic
Succession is alone the domain and teaching of Roman Catholicism! As anyone
who is canonized as a saint in Roman Catholicism must have performed two
miracles. It takes one miracle to be beatified. But Baptists and many Conservative
Christians believe sign gifts ended with the Apostles. So then why are there so
many Baptists Augustinians?? - Replacement Theology (aka Supersessonism) In keeping with his allegorical
systematized theology, Israel is now the Church, therefore, the Promised Land
does not go to the Jews in his view. Michael Youssef exalts Augustine’s City of
God as being the Church, as to a host of those embracing Replacement Theology.
No the City of God is Jerusalem! You can’t restore what never existed! The
Church never existed until Pentecost and once launched it will never be destroyed
to have to be restored! The Church was never exiled by God in judgment, will not
be brought back from captivity, as Ezekiel made crystal clear! If Augustine’s City
of God is the Church, I would hate to think what the City of Satan is! If you reject
the literal City of God then you have to reject the Resurrection as Eric Douma
made clear in one of his 10 Megaton Sermon:
The Attempt to Destroy Israel Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxF3kgIvD5g
What just struck upon hearing Andy Wood’s sermon on Identity of Michael and
who is the Restrainer was that if Michael is defending Israel (which he is) but If
Israel is now the Church which Alan Kurschner, Amillennialists, Post
Millennialists and 80+ percent of all Christian denominations believe that Israel is
replaced by the Church then by logical deduction, then Michael is defending and
protecting the Church throughout the Church age and in many realms up to 3/4 of
the Tribulation. - Coercive Torture and Terrorism
Augustine weaponized Christianity and systematized and institutionalized
torture in the Name of Jesus. His Convert-or-die Christianity paved the way for
the Inquisition, persecution and martyrdom of the tens of millions of true saints,
massacring the Parable of the Wheat and Tares in Matthew Chapter 13. Had
Augustine taken the opposite stance, i.e., the biblical stance, there may not have
been the roots planted that eventually led to the Crusaders rounding up Jews, herding
them into synagogues, locking the doors, and burning them to the ground, and what
the Conquistadors did in Central and South America in the 16th Century. If I were
the Donatists, I would feel safer with Freddy Kruger, the legendary horror movie
villain, than Augustine. But Freddy Kruger was an imaginary figure…the horrors
toward saints at the hands of Augustine were real…a pastor from Hell….totally
disqualified as an elder or minister of righteousness. In fact, he never met the
biblical qualifications to be an elder in the first place. The Apostle Paul persecuted
Christians too, but that was BEFORE he was a Christian. In his own right,
Augustine was a terrorist, torturer, and persecutor of Christians, and planted the
seeds and fertilizer for the infrastructure for millions of martyrs, laying the ground
work for and supplying the blueprints to John Calvin a thousand years later and
the Holocaust four hundred years after that. True Christians should run for their
lives from Augustinians, certainly not make one of them their pastor. With pastors
like this, who needs enemies? And how ironic, that Augustine taught that “wrong
have no rights.” Therefore, since his teachings are chalked full of wrong heresies,
he is indicted by his own testimony. He believed that coercion using “great
violence” was biblically justified against fellow Christians…all in the name of
love. And where in Augustine’s Confessions do you find a single confession and
repentance for inciting and systematizing the torture of Christian saints? So
torturing saints in Purgatory who don’t make it to Heaven, without Purgatory, is
not enough for Augustine, he taught torturing while they were still on earth too?
And what could top what the Catholic Church Crusades did for torture and
Antisemitism then rounding up the Jews in Israel, herding them into synagogues,
locking the doors, then burning them to the ground, mirrored by and forming the
foundation, the blueprints, and justification for the Holocaust! However, I should
clarify that Roman Catholicism believes that even you have to go to Purgatory,
everyone that goes there would still eventually make it to Heaven. This means
that eventually it would be empty, though it might take millions of years. But
where is the accounting ledger in Augustine’s book of all the restitution he made
to all of the saints he tortured and published that they should be tortured? John
the Baptist taught the necessity of making restitution to those who were
defrauded, and Zacchaeus even proposed increasing the amount of restitution to
victims to four times the amount he defrauded them. So were Augustine here
today would he make restitution to all his victims suffering from Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder from what he did to them? Where is the “God of ALL comfort”
that Paul taught for them? How about restitution for all of the false teachings he
promulgated? To say nothing about what all of the tithing money went for to
promote a false religion.
Augustine claims to find his doctrine and justification for harassing, stalking, and
persecuting Christians from Scripture. Augustine turned the healthy tissue of
church discipline given to us in Scripture into a metastasized form of
Spiritual Melanoma Cancer. So where did the Apostle Paul ONCE
persecute, torture, believers or unbelievers in the New Testament? Where did
he once prescribe retaliation or use violence against even the Judaizers and
Pharisees, even though he was repeatedly beaten, flogged, tortured, and
imprisoned by them? The Apostle Paul ultimately twice eternally cursed and
damned them for Eternity, but did not physically abuse them in any way in
this life. But did that only once!
The death penalty was decreed for any one who practiced re-baptism…It is a fact
recognized by many recent historians, that the persecution of the Anabaptists
surpassed in severity the persecution of the early Christians by pagan Rome
(“Mennonites in Europe,” by John Horsch, p. 300). They were burned alive and
turned over to wild animals to be devoured, and in some case given a third
baptism of drowning.
Augustine In Defense of Torturing Heretics: From Conversion to Coercion
http://egregores.blogspot.com/2010/10/augustine-in-defense-of-torturing.html
Here is a video depicting Roman Catholic Torture Techniques against heretics,
originally inspired by Augustine (incredible):
Roman Catholic Satanic Torture Methods!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI13wMpvj3s
I am utterly astonished at the number of even Conservative Christian
Denominations, pastors, professors, authors, seminaries and Christian colleges
who exalt Augustine virtually to the Stratosphere as a theologian and pastor of
pastors, particularly in America. Augustine’s persecution of Christians paved the
way and established the infrastructure for torture which was perfected by Loyola
in the Inquisition…victims ultimately in the tens of millions. King James in
England took the mantle and baton from Augustine and Loyola for the Anglican
Church, resulting in the fleeing of Puritans and Pilgrims and an avalanche of other
Christian refugees in England and the rest of Europe. And Calvin took his baton to
Geneva, Switzerland. American was founded on fleeing from terrorists that had
merged Church and State. In fact, the United States Constitution and the Bill of
Rights was created to prevent Augustine’s antithesis of Freedom of Religion. The
Bill of Rights was created to prevent Augustinian types, with a path for redress
should any control freak ever attempt or succeed in taking anyone’s freedom of
religion away or infringe these rights. And the Second Amendment with the
Right to Bear Arms was added, so that if necessary, and an Augustinian type of
terrorist comes to your house or city would be stopped in their tracks. Furthermore
Immigration Policy is designed to ban entry into the U.S., to anyone like
Augustine who promoted and terrorized Christians that did not meet his definition
of Christian or heretic:
Here are just two of the 18 restrictions which would bar Augustine even from
entry into the United States at least historically before Covid and the Border Crisis
in which up to millions of unvetted terrorists are freely allowed to cross the
border:
“have a physical or mental disorder that makes you harmful to others” and
“have committed or been convicted of a crime of ‘moral turpitude’”
SOURCE:
List of Reason/Ground of Inadmissibility for Entering the United States
https://www.immihelp.com/18-grounds-of-inadmissibility-for-entering-the-united-states/
How about inside of the United States? Augustine would be guilty of torturing by
these statutes:
Bill of Rights
It is debated as to whether or not torture as a punishment falls under the cruel and
unusual punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment to the United States
Constitution. The text of the Amendment states that:
“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and
unusual punishments inflicted.” The U.S. Supreme Court has held since at least
the 1890s that punishments which involved torture are forbidden under the Eighth
Amendment.[4] 18 U.S.C. § 2340[edit]
An act of torture committed outside the United States by a U.S. national or a non-
U.S. national who is present in the United States is punishable under 18 U.S.C. §
- The definition of torture used is as follows:
As used in this chapter—“torture” means an act committed by a person acting
under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental
pain or suffering (other than pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions) upon
another person within his custody or physical control; “severe mental pain or
suffering” means the prolonged mental harm caused by or resulting from—the
intentional infliction or threatened infliction of severe physical pain or suffering;
the administration or application, or threatened administration or application, of
mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the
senses or the personality; the threat of imminent death; or the threat that another
person will imminently be subjected to death, severe physical pain or suffering, or
the administration or application of mind-altering substances or other procedures
calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or personality; and
(3) “United States” means the several states of the United States, the District of
Columbia, and the commonwealths, territories, and possessions of the United
States.
And if somehow Augustine had managed to sneak into the country as an illegal
alien, and started up the same Godfather tactics he practiced in North Africa, he
would have been rounded up and rightfully deported or tried for a host of crimes.
Fortunately, now they have stalking laws to use against 21
st
Century stalkers like
Augustine, and kidnapping. In fact, kidnapping would be a federal felony crime.
Tragically these laws are exponentially no longer being enforced. So if Augustine
were to attempt seizing someone today in the U.S., he could, or at least should be
deported, or in some cases, if death resulted in the person being tortured, it would
be Augustine himself receiving capital punishment. Were Augustine alive today,
tragically, this would be the perfect time for him to sneak across our Southern
Border. Yet pastor after pastor remains gobsmacked and delirious in their
delusion over Augustine. Augustine shouldn’t be able to even gain legitimate
entry into the United States, couldn’t become a member of a Conservative Baptist
Church, and could not become a pastor. Yet Pastor after pastor, denomination
after denomination can’t control themselves from exalting him and no doubt
couldn’t wait to install him as their pastor or head of their church denomination.
John Calvin too, took the mantle of persecuting Christians in Switzerland, from
Augustine, who were running for their lives. So thorough was Calvin’s total
submersion and baptism into Augustine, he said that his whole theology could be
found in the words of Augustine. Augustine designed the original torture of
Christians by the Catholic Church, Loyola refined it. I thought we got rid of the
Divine Right of Kings, once and for all, only to be replaced by the Divine Right of
Pastors, who want to put us back under bondage? Augustine is indisputably the
global Grand Architect, and Founding Father of Christians torturing Christians…a
gangster. Anyone in law enforcement or the FBI profiling this person, not
knowing who he was, would see a psychopath and sociopath control freak hungry
for power who could not contain himself from abusing his perceived enemies of
the church…real or imagined…until they find out it was Augustine…then
mystically he becomes a sacred cow with diplomatic immunity…and in the
church, anyone speaking ill of him is the one with the problem.
The Shepherding Movement pales in comparison, yet no doubt has its roots in
Augustine. If anyone does not believe my report, I invite you to do your own
Google search for Augustine’s own words, published in his writings and books.
Had pastors and authors on Augustine done this, they would discover they had
deceived their own sheep, in this generation, and actually preached from the pulpit
what Augustine really taught before the Internet, for sixteen hundred years,
perhaps the Great Falling Away could have at least been minimized. But now, as
the Apostle Paul would say, they are without excuse!
And in case you think control-freak Christianity is extinct in either Roman
Catholicism or Protestants, see these stories in Germany, where hundreds of
thousands of both Catholics and Protestants are either terminating their church
membership, or are leaving the country, as recent at 2015 because the national
government taxes all members:
“The German church tax — which is 8 to 9 percent of the annual income tax —
is so steep, however, that many people formally quit the church to avoid paying,
while nevertheless remaining active in their faith.”
10 Facts about German Church Tax
10 Facts about German Church Tax | myGermanExpert Blog
blexpert.com/2013/ /10-og.mygermanFacts-about-German-Church-Tax.ht
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax
Taxpayers, whether Roman Catholic, Protestant or members of other tax-
collecting communities, pay an amount equal to between 8% (in Bavaria and
Baden-Württemberg) and 9% (in the rest of the country) of their income tax to the
church or other community to which they belong.
Compulsory Income Tax on Christians Drives Germans Away From Protestant
and Catholic Churches
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11380968/Compul
sory-income-tax-on-Christians-drives-Germans-away-from-Protestant-and-
Catholic-churches.html
England does the same thing.
- Just War Antisemitism Theology led to Crusades justification for and
Global Conspiracy to Steal the Land of Israel [the title of my documentary]
for the Catholic Church. His vitriol toward all Jews can be captured in this quote:
“As “Witness People”, he sanctified collective punishment for the Jewish
deicide and enslavement of Jews to Catholics: “Not by bodily death, shall
the ungodly race of carnal Jews perish … ‘Scatter them abroad, take away
their strength. And bring them down O Lord.’” Also see:
http://www.messianicassociation.org/ezine17-at.replacement-theology.htm - Leaven of Herod defying warning of Christ; merging Church and State as
well as the warning of the Apostle Paul to let punishment for church matters and
heresy stay within the church, unless crimes have been committed, then turn that
over to the State. - Priests as Mediators between God and Man defying the Apostle Paul who
wrote there is only One Mediator, Christ Jesus. - City of God is the Church and not Jerusalem
- Infant Salvation Baptism and calling anyone who rejected it “infidels” and
“cursed.” Augustine effectively called these Christians “accursed” is what the
Apostle Paul did to the Judaizers in Galatians, so that they would have NO hope
of salvation, eternally damning them. Augustine’s doctrine on infant baptism was
eventually codified in the Roman Catholic Council of Trent, which
anathematized anyone who did not hold these views on baptism. Want proof?
Here is the Catholic Doctrine:
“ON BAPTISM
CANON I.-If any one saith, that the baptism of John had the same force as
the baptism of Christ; let him be anathema.
CANON II.-If any one saith, that true and natural water is not of necessity
for baptism, and, on that account, wrests, to some sort of metaphor, those
words of our Lord Jesus Christ; Unless a man be born again of water and
the Holy Ghost; let him be anathema.
CANON III.-If any one saith, that in the Roman church, which is the
mother and mistress of all churches, there is not the true doctrine
concerning the sacrament of baptism; let him be anathema.
CANON IV.-If any one saith, that the baptism which is even given by
heretics in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,
with the intention of doing what the Church doth, is not true baptism; let
him be anathema.
CANON V.-If any one saith, that baptism is free, that is, not necessary unto
salvation; let him be anathema.
CANON VI.-If any one saith, that one who has been baptized cannot, even
if he would, lose grace, let him sin ever so much, unless he will not believe;
let him be anathema.
CANON VII.-If any one saith, that the baptized are, by baptism itself,
made debtors but to faith alone, and not to the observance of the whole law
of Christ; let him be anathema.
CANON VIII.-If any one saith, that the baptized are freed from all the
precepts, whether written or transmitted, of holy Church, in such wise that
they are not bound to observe them, unless they have chosen of their own
accord to submit themselves thereunto; let him be anathema.
CANON IX.-If any one saith, that the resemblance of the baptism which
they have received is so to be recalled unto men, as that they are to
understand, that all vows made after baptism are void, in virtue of the
promise already made in that baptism; as if, by those vows, they both
derogated from that faith which they have professed, and from that baptism
itself; let him be anathema.
CANON X.-If any one saith, that by the sole remembrance and the faith of
the baptism which has been received, all sins committed after baptism are
either remitted, or made venial; let him be anathema.
CANON XI.-If any one saith, that baptism, which was true and rightly
conferred, is to be repeated, for him who has denied the faith of Christ
amongst Infidels, when he is converted unto penitence; let him be
anathema.
CANON XII.-If any one saith, that no one is to be baptized save at that
age at which Christ was baptized, or in the very article of death; let him
be anathema.
CANON XIII.-If any one saith, that little children, for that they have not
actual faith, are not, after having received baptism, to be reckoned amongst
the faithful; and that, for this cause, they are to be re-baptized when they
have attained to year of discretion; or, that it is better that the baptism of
such be omitted, than that, while not believing by their own act, they should
be baptized in the faith alone of the Church; let him be anathema.
CANON XIV.-If any one saith, that those who have been thus baptized
when children, are, when they have grown up, to be asked whether they will
ratify what their sponsors promised in their names when they were
baptized; and that, in case they answer that they will not, they are to be left
to their own will; and are not to be compelled meanwhile to a Christian life
by any other penalty, save that they be excluded from the participation of
the Eucharist, and of the other sacraments, until they repent; let him be
anathema.”
Even Vatican II was just as ruthless, which was supposed to be kinder and gentler:
“If anyone says that in the Roman Church, which is the mother and mistress
of all churches, there is not the true doctrine concerning the sacrament
of baptism, let him be anathema.” (ibid., p. 53 — Seventh Session,
Sacrament Of Baptism, Canon 3)
So when was this doctrine ever rescinded? Answer: NEVER! One more urgent
point regarding Eucharist, Augustine believed it is the literal body and blood of
Christ [Real Presence], and Catholic children can not take Eucharist until and
unless they were first baptized, usually as an infant, and took Confirmation. But
these vows requires that they are confirming what the Catholic Church says Infant
Baptism accomplishes which is to remove Original and Saves them. But to do this
means they are confirming two false teachings. This makes both the priest and the
partaker of this Sacrament guilty of this Scripture passage warning of the Apostle
Paul:
“Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord,
unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.” “For he that
eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself,
not discerning the Lord’s body.” I Corinthians 11: 27,29
- Monasticism…marriage only value is to produce celibate offspring, defying
Scripture and paving way for pedophilia abuse and homosexuality among priests - Neoplatonist (you can become perfect and happy in this life) and
Humanist - Mysticism and Gnosticism
Augustine was not just a mystic, but is considered the Father of Mysticism in the
both Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox Church, which he acquired from
the Desert Fathers in North Africa. He paved the way for Contemplative Prayer
that invaded even Conservative Christian Denominations.
Augustine = Contemplative Meditation = Altered State of Consciousness =
Spiritual LSD without $ cost in this life = antithesis of Biblical Meditation, but
Eternal Cost in the next life!
Augustine got it all rolling in the Catholic Church, but now the plague has spilled
into Reformation Denominations…read the fruit of this in the 21
st
Century:
http://www.discernment-ministries.org/
More proof, see Bob DeWaay’s:
Richard Foster—Celebration of Deception
http://cicministry.org/commentary/issue112.htm
(This article does not name Augustine, but is about Richard Foster. However,
Richard Foster says this about Augustine):
“Confessions of St. Augustine” Recommended by Richard Foster as one of
the best of the “experiential classics in Christian literature.”
- Transubstantiation (Catholic Doctrine that teaches the Body and Blood of
Christ becomes literal) historically known as the Eucharist but given this
additional title in the Roman Catholic Fourth Council of the Lateran in 1215. - Necromancy: Praying to the dead and to Mary and Mary never sinned
Necromancy is a magic art, i.e., sorcery. Revelation states clearly that those
practice magic arts “will find their place in the Lake of Fire.” Rev. 21:8, and
reconfirmed in Rev 22:15. So if Augustine was truly a saint, and “saved” then
how does he find himself in the Lake of Fire by practicing and stumbling
multitudes to do the same? Augustine was so mixed up he call Mary the spouse
of God:
Augustine wrongly calls Mary, ALONE, the Spouse of God. The Church is
the Spouse, or more technically the Bride to be, she is presently betrothed to
Christ who is the Groom. She becomes the Bride (therefore the Wife) at the
Wedding Supper of the Lamb, when Christ returns in Glory for his Bride.
Now Mary, though highly favored among women, is less than one-billionth of
the Bride to be, because she is a Christian. But all born-again Christians
make up the Bride.
“Mary was the only one who merited to be called the Mother as Spouse of
God.” Augustine of Hippo
SOURCE: Augustine, Sermons 208; quoted by St. Alphonsus de Liguori in The
Glories of Mary (New York: Redemptorist, 1931)
But it is the Church that is the Bride of Christ the Groom, who is God. Mary was
only a fraction of one percent of the Bride. Also a spouse must be married. The
Church is presently betrothed to the Lord (engaged), but not married yet. That
can’t happen until the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, when Christ returns in Glory.
Furthermore, how could Mary be the Mother of God? Mary needed a Redeemer.
Can someone in need of a redeemer be the Mother of God? And how can you be
simultaneously Wife and Mother of God? Now imagine that if Mary is the Mother
of God, wouldn’t all Christians (the Church) then be collectively the Mother of
God, using Augustine’s logic…since after all, the Mother of God and the Spouse
(Wife) are one and the same? Mary doesn’t become the Spouse of God until all we
as Christians simultaneously become His Spouse with Mary, at the Wedding
Supper of the Lamb! Yet the legend of Augustine lives on without his deeds of
darkness and false teachings being exposed, marked, and named, as the Apostle
Paul commanded of all true Christians. The fact of this statement of Augustine,
alone, renders him Reprobate. Some might say he is apostate. But apostate means
to fall away from something that was originally a true religion or seed. But as
Christ said a thorn bush cannot produce figs. Matthew 23, though initially written
to call Judaism a worthless religion, it is mirrored in Catholicism. Catholicism,
just like Judaism in the First Century are thorn bush religions worthless (Christ
and the Apostle Paul’s words, not mine). Though I will say that Roman
Catholicism has also fallen away even further into the Abyss since Augustine.
- Praying for the dead
- Jews have the Mark of Cain
- Nephilim were descendants of Cain
- Christians must Tithe at minimum. This is extortion and defies the Council
of Jerusalem’s ruling for minimum requirements of Gentile Christians, and the
Apostle Paul’s own instructions that all giving must NOT be out of compulsion.
See Dr. Russell Kelly’s film documentary entitled:
Tithing is not a Christian Doctrine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYFkEh5bEXw - Added to God’s word importing Apocrypha to Canon
- Exalted Traditions of men over Traditions of Christ and His Apostles in
Scripture as Final Authority in defiance of the Apostle Paul and John in
Revelation - Augustine, again Calvin’s foundation was virulently Antisemitic:
“Not by bodily death, shall the ungodly race of carnal Jews
perish … ‘Scatter them abroad, take away their strength. And bring them
down O Lord.'” “Judaism, since Christ, is a corruption; indeed, Judas is the
image of the Jewish people: their understanding of Scripture is carnal; they
bear the guilt for the death of the Savior, for through their fathers they have
killed Christ.” - And again mirroring Augustine, both were intensely misogynistic against
women. AUGUSTINE MISOGYNIST QUOTES AGAINST WOMEN:
“I don’t see what sort of help woman was created to provide man with,
if one excludes procreation. If woman is not given to man for help in
bearing children, for what help could she be? To till the earth together?
If help were needed for that, man would have been a better help for
man. The same goes for comfort in solitude. How much more pleasure
is it for life and conversation when two friends live together then when
a man and a woman co-habitate?”
“. . . woman was who perhaps still lives more in accordance with the
promptings of the inferior flesh than by superior reason. Is this why the
apostle Paul does not attribute the image of God to her?given to man,
woman who was of small intelligence and”
“. . . the woman together with her own husband is the image of God, so
that that whole substance may be one image; but when she is referred
separately to her quality of help-meet, which regards the woman
herself alone, then she is not the image of God; but as regards the
man alone, he is the image of God as fully and completely as when the
woman too is joined with him in one.”
“Watch out that she does not twist and turn you for the worse. What
difference does it make whether it is in a wife or in a mother, provided
we nonetheless avoid Eve in any woman? “What is the difference
whether it is in a wife or a mother, it is still Eve the temptress that
we must beware of in any woman.”
So would you send your wife or daughter to this man for counseling, let alone lay
hands on him to become an elder of your church? God forbid! And will you warn
everyone? In another bizarre irony. Nuns and Nunneries go back at least to the
Fourth Century. Augustine came along two centuries later. So how in the world
could he justify Catholic Nuns, if all they are good for is to produce offspring? And
yet to this day there are Augustinian Nuns and Nunneries named after him!
- And finally, Augustine was a Predeterminist, drawing from pagan religions
that the gods automatically pre-destined your Eternal Destination.
Even Steven 