THE UNGODLY DEVIATIONS ORIGINATING
FROM  THE  WRITINGS  OF  AUGUSTINE.

Perverse individuals attach themselves to ritualistic teachings to bring in destructive sects. (2 Peter 2:1). But with research the origins of these unGodly beliefs can be discovered. Here are a few of the more obvious examples:

(1)

In the third century A.D. Augustine wrote a manuscript based on his own confessions, which in this century is now a published work called 'Confessions'. A doctrine adopted from this work, and still prevalent today, is that of sectarian priests among Catholics setting themselves up as mediators in place of The Christ in order to hear the sinful confessions of its members. After the sinner has said to the priest: 'Forgive me Father, for I have sinned', the priest then hears the sinner's confession of his/her sins and pronounces the sinner forgiven. Given that we have only One Father Almighty God, and that only His Son has been appointed by God as mediator between God and man for the forgiveness of sins, the hearing of confessions by Catholic priests is "publicly showing himself to be a god."  (2 Thess 2:4)  (See 1 Tim 2:5,6).

(2)

In many places of sectarian worship members light candles, supposedly to represent a votive arrangement and thanksgiving to God. The originator? Paschal. There is no scriptural basis for this visual demonstration. The seven "lampstands" used by our Lord to symbolically describe the seven named congregations of the Revelation was a sign of a coming reality in The Christ's congregations.  (Rev 1:12,13 & 20).

(3)

The Trinity, the concept of a three-in-one God, as advocated by Augustine, has become the central doctrine of the Catholic sect. Catholics are anti-Christs because they refuse to believe in the separate God-created existence of His only-begotten Son Jesus Christ.  (John 3:16-18).

(4)

Augustine referred a great deal to the developments of a demonic city on earth in opposition to the heavenly City of God under development. The Catholic sect has created that demonically inspired city on earth:  Vatican City, Rome.

(5)

Augustine formulated extensive arguments to substantiate his belief in resurrections of the dead back to life in the flesh on earth. Belief in an earthly resurrection is particularly prevalent among the sect falsely calling themselves Jehovah's Witnesses. While it did not prove difficult for Almighty God to resurrect Lazarus back to a fleshly existence, this is not what God has foreordained for mankind. The  resurrection of Lazarus had a special purpose. (See John 11:4). The Scriptures state that all will wake, some to a resurrection of everlasting spirit life, and some to a resurrection of Judgement and the reproach of eternal  abhorrence.  (Dan 12:1,2 NEB). Those to be resurrected to an everlasting spirit life are "reaching   out   for   a better place, that is, one belonging to heaven."  (Heb 11:16)  (See Subject Index: Resurrection).

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