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What is the best Christian text, and why is it the Confessions of St. Augustine?
From sentence fucking one this guy starts listing scripture left and right, proving it (not proving the Trinity, proving the scriptures ffs), pointing out flaws in preachers' teachings, using casual analysis to discern the true nature of Him.
Example: You know that theoretical mathematical question "does the set of all sets contain itself?" Well, motherfuckers, this guy was asking this question about God over 1600 years ago, the fuck have you done today?
Page fucking 2: "Since, then, Thou fillest heaven and earth, do they contain Thee? Or, as the contain Thee not, dost Thou fill them, and yet there remains something over? And where dost Thou pour forth that which remaineth of Thee when the heaven and earth are filled? Or, indeed, is there no need that Thou who constainest all things shouldest be contained of any, since those things which Though fillest Though fillest by containing them?"
>spellchecker has an aneurysm after typing that
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>si fallor sum
>literally did Descartes before Descartes
>blew manicheism the fuck out
Can non-christians even compete?
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I just purchased this book. Excited to read it.
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Augustine never quit being a gnostic. He got famous off smuggling Neoplatonism into Christianity. Probably only converted to Catholicism for cultural reasons ("sorry, mom, I was just going through a phase")
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>>9776777
Page 2 sounds suspiciously like your boy was plagiarizing Plotinus.
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>>9777987
goddamn stupid phone WHY
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>>9777987
All the church fathers were heavily influenced by Greek philosophy
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john chrysostom and gregory palamas are fucking based
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>>9777924
He was never a gnostic family, he was a manichee.
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>>9778024
Notice, however, that Plotinus merely asks the question. Augustine puts a fly in the soup by addressing the One directly, and peppering his reasoning with praises. Superstitious barbarians ruined everything.
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I don't care if I sound like I shill. I love Ignatius Critical editions, I might eventually get the whole collection. I wish they had more because I want a Catholic perspective on things.
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>>9778070
>manichees are a type of gnostic
And you're a type of retarded.
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>>9778082
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>>9778082
Not that anon but look it up faggot. They were a syncretic sect, and Mani was influenced by Bardaisan. He's not from the Coptic line, but they have the same roots in Edessa.
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>>9778024
Chrysostom sure as hell wasn't, he hated Greek philosphy.
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