Pyatcast

Category: Augustine

  • "We Don’t Worship Statues"

    How many times have I heard the line, “We don’t worship statues”! It seems that whenever one brings up the subject of idolatry with a Roman Catholic, they invariably think it is a defense that they are not venerating the statue itself, but the thing it represents. My intuitive response has typically been: do you…

  • The Fathers were not Always Original

    “But by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we believe to be saved in like manner as they also.” If, therefore, they, that is, the fathers, being unable to bear the yoke of the Old Law, believed that they were saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, it is clear that this grace…

  • Augustine on 1 John 2:2 and "Whole World"

    The fact that Augustine taught limited atonement is something that we occasionally hear disputed. Thus, from time to time, it is helpful to see what Augustine said about one of the key verses in that discussion, 1 John 2:2. Here are two places (the only two that have come to my attention) where Augustine address…

  • Limited Atonement Defended (Against Albrecht)

    This is a response to Mr. Albrecht’s video “Limited Atonement, further examined” (link). Mr. Albrecht has already conceded the main point of the discussion in his video by noting that Limited Atonement is not a heresy. That’s for the best, since the position OneTrueChurch (Glenn) took that Calvinism’s doctrine of Limited Atonement is heresy, is…

  • Augustine Distinguishing All in Adam from All in Christ

    I came across the following quotation and thought I’d share it: Since you do not wish to understand the “many” he said later as meaning the “all” he said first, you declare he said “many” to keep us from thinking he meant “all”. You could do likewise about the seed of Abraham to whom all…

  • Augustine and the Immaculate Conception

    In a recent video, Mr. William Albrecht discusses the issue of Augustine and the modern Roman Catholic teaching of the Immaculate Conception (link to video). While Mr. Albrecht makes an interesting admission, his comments don’t go far enough. Thus, while I congratulate him on not following in the footsteps of a number of Rome’s apologists,…

  • Augustine – Metaphor – Bodily Presence

    In this clip, we respond to Mr. William Albrecht’s continued (but unsupported) insistence that apparently terms like “the bread becomes the body of Christ” or “the bread is the body of Christ” must be understood neither literally (as actual flesh with skin, veins, DNA, etc.) nor analogically but transubstantially. We note that Mr. Albrecht doesn’t…

  • Augustine vs. Albrecht on the Bodily Presence – Round 2

    This is video response to William Albrecht’s two videos ( video 1 and video 2 ) responding to previous videos of mine, responding to a still previous video of his. I continue to point out Mr. Albrecht’s errors. I have 11 points: 1) The issue is bodily presence vs. spiritual presence (not real presence vs.…

  • Response to Albrecht on Augustine on Psalm 34

    I heard an interesting argument from Mr. Albrecht regarding a phrase in Augustine’s exposition on Psalm 34. First, here is the relevant passage: 1. Because there was there a sacrifice after the order of Aaron, and afterwards He of His Own Body and Blood appointed a sacrifice after the order of Melchizedek; He changed then…

  • Origen – Not a Papist

    Origen was not a papist, not a person who held to the modern Roman Catholic doctrine of the papacy. Origen interpreted Matthew 16:18 more like a modern Reformed believer would interpret the passage, and actually a lot like the way that Augustine interpreted the passage. Thus, in the following video, I respond to Mr. Albrecht’s…