Posted on 12/04/2010 12:20:34 PM PST by mlizzy
Rome is always looking of poster children to swim the Tiber. Its tempting even when they are swimming away from their past.
St. Augustine, however, was a Catholic. Do you think he was of great moral character after his conversion?
But he was not a Roman Catholic. His views were probably closer to mine than to modern Romanists, or at least as close.
Augustine was of great moral character after his conversion insofar as he followed the teachings of Scripture, and attempted to pattern his life after what is written there. The Bible gives us an objective standard for faith and practice.
The Bible does not teach that you can abandon your wife and children, flee the justified discipline of the church, and then seek shelter in a denominations that permits annulments for any and every reason. I have to think that Augustine would be horrified.
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