Who has not the Church for mother can no longer have God for father.
~ Cyprian, in On the Unity of the Catholic Church
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by kevinstilley
Who has not the Church for mother can no longer have God for father.
~ Cyprian, in On the Unity of the Catholic Church
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I believe because it is absurd. God’s Son has died. That is credible because it is foolishness. And He was
buried and is risen. That is certain because it is impossible.
If the Tiber reaches the walls, if the Nile does not rise to the fields, if the sky does not move, or the earth does, if there is famine, if there is plague, the cry is at once, “The Christians to the lions.”
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
What then has Athens to do with Jerusalem? What has the academy to do with the church? What have heretics to do with Christians? Our instruction is from the porch of Solomon who himself handed down that the Lord is to be sought in simplicity of heart. Away with those who produce Stoic, Platonic, and Dialectic Christianity. We have no need of curiosity after we have Christianity, nor of inquisitiveness after we have the Gospel. Since we believe we desire nothing else to believe. For the first thing we believe is that there is nothing else we ought to believe.
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Augustine’s Confessions is one of my favorite books. Christian Audio is now offering free audio downloads of the book through the end of August. I have downloaded and listened to the Mp3 files and they are well done.
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