ST AUGUSTINE REJECTING THE LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF JOHN 6:53 WHICH UNDERPINS ROME'S ERROR OF TRANSUBSTANTIATION IN THE MASS
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HISTORICAL NOTE:
St. Augustine shares a strange fate in that he is appealed to with equal fervour by both Protestants and Roman Catholics alike. BH Carroll wrote:
“Everyone ought to read Augustine's confessions. He did not keep on living that life after he was converted; he was one of the greatest preachers that ever lived. What we call Calvinism is the doctrine of Augustine. He saved the church for 300 years from going astray."
Rome elevated him to be one of the very few to carry the title “Doctor of the Church” which makes the statement below all the more worthy of attention.
ST. AUGUSTINE REJECTING THE LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF JOHN 6:53 ON WHICH THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH BUILDS HER ERRONEOUS TEACHING OF TRANSUBSTANTIATION IN THE MASS
"If the sentence is one of command, either forbidding a crime or vice, or enjoining an act of prudence or benevolence, it is not figurative. If, however, it seems to enjoin a crime or vice, or to forbid an act of prudence or benevolence, it is figurative. "Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man," says Christ, "and drink His blood, ye have no life in you." [John 6:53] This seems to enjoin a crime or a vice; it is therefore a figure, enjoining that we should have a share in the sufferings of our Lord, and that we should retain a sweet and profitable memory of the fact that His flesh was wounded and crucified for us."
(Christian Doctrine 3:16)
St. Augustine shares a strange fate in that he is appealed to with equal fervour by both Protestants and Roman Catholics alike. BH Carroll wrote:
“Everyone ought to read Augustine's confessions. He did not keep on living that life after he was converted; he was one of the greatest preachers that ever lived. What we call Calvinism is the doctrine of Augustine. He saved the church for 300 years from going astray."
Rome elevated him to be one of the very few to carry the title “Doctor of the Church” which makes the statement below all the more worthy of attention.
ST. AUGUSTINE REJECTING THE LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF JOHN 6:53 ON WHICH THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH BUILDS HER ERRONEOUS TEACHING OF TRANSUBSTANTIATION IN THE MASS
"If the sentence is one of command, either forbidding a crime or vice, or enjoining an act of prudence or benevolence, it is not figurative. If, however, it seems to enjoin a crime or vice, or to forbid an act of prudence or benevolence, it is figurative. "Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man," says Christ, "and drink His blood, ye have no life in you." [John 6:53] This seems to enjoin a crime or a vice; it is therefore a figure, enjoining that we should have a share in the sufferings of our Lord, and that we should retain a sweet and profitable memory of the fact that His flesh was wounded and crucified for us."
(Christian Doctrine 3:16)
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