Unbiblical Quotations from St Augustine represent the progressive apostasy of the ecclesiastical church's doctrine, which eventually became medieval Roman Catholicism.

To read Biblical Quotations gleaned from St. Augustine see Words of Wisdom from St. Augustine

"In the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, being seared in their own conscience, forbidding [κωλυω; forbid, hinder, keep from, not suffer, withstand] to marry, saying to abstain from foods which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For every creation of God is good, and nothing to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving. For it is sanctified through the Word of God and prayer."

1 Timothy 4:1-5

"These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so."

Acts 17:11

St. John Chrysostom: ON SCRIPTURE "Some one will say, 'it is to the priests that these charges are given' ... But that the apostle gives the same charge to the laity, hear what he says in another epistle to other than the priesthood: 'Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom.'" CLICK TO READ »

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St. Augustine Quotations (Unbiblical & Notorious)

CHURCH FATHERS: The works of those commonly called or traditionally called "Church Fathers" ought to be resorted to not as the Father's of the Church, for this term in a Biblical and correct sense is reserved for those Apostles and Prophets by whose writings and revelations the Church from the beginning is established and built up. Jesus himself warned, and Paul warned, and John warned, of a darkness and an era of apostasy that would come upon the Church, even a flood, which would be spewed out of the mouth of the dragon, a mystery of iniquity, which would if possible deceive even the elect, if it were possible. In the greater context of the end times, the Church Fathers, in so many volumes preserved, are the record of that falling away that would come and that would allow the man of sin - the Antichrist - to be revealed (2 Thessalonians 2:3). After the good begining of the Gospel, we watch, in these writings and epistles, as the overseers (episkopous) and bishops themselves begin to stray from the Gospel that was originally preached, and finally turn aside "speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them," (Acts 20:28-30). Let all those who seek the truth of the Gospel, refer to the Gospel, to Christ the source and the Spirit of holiness, but let us not establish Christian doctrine upon the corruptions and traditions of men. Read the Writings of the Church Fathers »

ST. AUGUSTINE or Aurelius Augustinus of Hippo (354-430ad), also know as Saint Augustin, is a Saint and Doctor (Doctores Ecclesiae) of the Roman Catholic Church. St Augustine lived during an era in which the ecclesiastical church, or rather the Catholic sect of Christianity, sinking into the apostasy that become Medieval Roman Catholicism, was highly regarded and respected. He was an proponent of a variety of unbiblical doctrines, including asceticism, monasticism, the superiority and singular holiness of virginity, abstinence within marriage, the sinfulness of second marriages, even for widows, the perpetual virginity of Mary and Joseph, and the innate sinfulness or impurity of the marriage bed (1 Timothy 4:1-5).

However, although Augustine's theology is very often unbiblical, his writings do refute a number of more progressive Catholic doctrines, of which he knew nothing whatsoever. See Words of Wisdom from St Augustine. The following unbiblical quotations are taken from his writings.

Unbiblical Quote on Purgatory and the cleansing of the soul from sin after death:

"Temporary punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by others after death, by others both now and then; but all of them before that last and strictest judgement. But of those who suffer temporary punishments after death, all are not doomed to those everlasting pains which are to follow that judgement; for to some, as we have already said, what is not remitted in this world is remitted in the next, that is, they are not punished with the eternal punishment of the world to come." - St. Augustine

The City of God by St. Augustine, Book 21, Chapter 12

Unbiblical Quotes on the Intercession of Saints and the supposed merit for salvation gained through them:

"It must be admitted, that those who are thus received into the eternal habitations are not of such a character that their own life would suffice to rescue them without the aid of the saints." - St. Augustine

"There is then a certain kind of life, which is neither, on the one hand, so bad that those who adopt it are not helped towards the kingdom of heaven by any bountiful alms-giving by which they may relieve the wants of the saints, and make friends who could receive them into eternal habitations, nor, on the other hand, so good that it of itself suffices to win for them that great blessedness, if they do not obtain mercy through the merits of those whom they have made their friends." - St. Augustine

The City of God by St. Augustine, Book 21, Chapter 27

Unbiblical Quotes on the Marriage Bed and the supposed innate Sinfulness of its pleasures:

"For intercourse of marriage for the sake of begetting has no fault; but for the satisfying of lust, but yet with husband or wife, by reason of the faith of the bed, it has venial fault: but adultery or fornication has deadly fault, and, through this, continence from all intercourse is indeed better even than the intercourse of marriage itself, which takes place for the sake of begetting. But because that continence is of larger desert, but to pay the due of marriage is no crime, but to demand it beyond the necessity of begetting is a venial sin." - St. Augustine

"It is shameful to wish to use a husband for purposes of lust. .... There are also men incontinent to that degree, that they spare not their wives even when pregnant. Therefore whatever that is immodest, shameless, base, married persons do one with another, is the sin of the persons, not the fault of the marriage. ... The Apostle enjoins not on them by way of command, but allows to them by way of leave, that they have intercourse also beside the cause of begetting children; although evil habits impel them to such intercourse. ... For neither is that committed because of marriage, but is pardoned because of marriage." - St. Augustine

"Between husband and wife....the better they are, the earlier they have begun by mutual consent to contain from sexual intercourse with each other." - St. Augustine

"'Honorable,' therefore, 'is marriage in all, and the bed undefiled.' And this we do not so call a good, as that it is a good in comparison of fornication: otherwise there will be two evils, of which the second is worse." - St. Augustine

On the Good of Marriage by St. Augustine

"If then a man could have children by his wife without this intercourse, should he not have so much the more joy thereby, in proportion to the greater chastity of her whom he loves the most?" - St. Augustine

Sermon I by St. Augustine

Unbiblical Quotes on the Superiority of Virginity and its singular holiness in comparison to marriage (1 Timothy 4:1-5):

"I have said this, lest happy married fruitfulness dare to vie with virgin chastity." - St. Augustine

"For not even herein ought such as are married to compare themselves with the deserts of the continent, in that of them virgins are born: For this is not a good of marriage, but of nature." - St. Augustine

Of Holy Virginity by St. Augustine

Unbiblical Quote on the Superiority of Virginity and the supposed sinfulness of rethinking celibacy in favor of marriage (1 Timothy 4:1-5):

"That you may understand me; one man has chosen a married life, another a life of continence; if he who has chosen the married life, has adulterous lusts, he has 'looked back;' he has lusted after that which is unlawful. He too who would wish afterwards to return from continence to a married life, has 'looked back;' he has chosen what is in itself lawful, yet he has 'looked back.' Is marriage then to be condemned? No. Marriage is not to be condemned; but see whither he had come who has chosen it. He had already got before it. When he was living as a young man in voluptuousness, marriage was before him; he was making his way towards it; but when he had chosen continence, marriage was behind him. 'Remember.' says the Lord, 'Lot's wife.' Lot's wife, by looking behind, remained motionless. To whatever point then any one has been able to reach, let him fear to 'look back' from thence; and let him walk in the way, let him 'follow Christ.' 'Forgetting those things which are behind, and stretching forth unto those things which are before, let him by an earnest inward intention press on toward the prize of the calling of God in Christ Jesus.' Let those that are married regard the unmarried as above themselves; let them acknowledge that they are better; let them in them love what themselves have not; and let them in them love Christ." - St. Augustine

Sermon XLVI by St. Augustine

Unbiblical Quotes on Divorce and Remarriage on account of an adulterous spouse:

"I marvel, if, as it is allowed to put away a wife who is an adulteress, so it be allowed, having put her away, to marry another. For holy scripture causes a hard not in this matter, in that the apostle says, that, by commandment of the Lord, the wife ought not to depart from her husband, but, in case she shall have departed, to remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. .... But i see not how the man can have permission to marry another, in case he have left an adulteress, when a woman has not to be married to another, in case she has left an adulterer." - St. Augustine

On the Good of Marriage by St. Augustine

Unbiblical Quote on Water Baptism and its merit and efficacy:

"As a boy...being suddenly seized with pains...at the point of death...I solicited from the piety of my mother, and that of Your Church, the mother of us all, the baptism of Your Christ, my Lord and my God. On which, the mother of my flesh being much troubled, since she, with a heart pure in Your faith, travailed in birth more lovingly for my eternal salvation, would, had I not quickly recovered, have without delay provided for my initiation and washing by Your life-giving sacraments, confessing You, O Lord Jesus, for the remission of sins. So my cleansing was deferred, as if I must needs, should I live, be further polluted; because, indeed, the guilt contracted by sin would, after baptism, be greater and more perilous. ... But how numerous and great waves of temptation appeared to hang over me after childhood! These were foreseen by my mother; and she preferred that the unformed clay should be exposed to them rather than the image itself." - St. Augustine

Confessions by St. Augustine

Unbiblical Quotes on the Perpetual Virginity of Mary and Joseph:

"'How say' says [Mary] 'shall this be, seeing I know not a man?' Which assuredly she would not say, unless she had before vowed herself to God as a virgin. But because the habits of the Israelites as yet refused this, she was espoused to a just man [Joseph], who would not take from her by violence, but rather guard against violent persons, what she had already vowed. ... Thus Christ by being born of a virgin, chose rather to approve, than to command, holy virginity." - St. Augustine

Of Holy Virginity by St. Augustine

"For as she [Mary] was a mother without carnal desire, so was he [Joseph] a father without any carnal intercourse. ... because he had none of this carnal desire. Let his greater purity only confirm rather his relationship of father." - St. Augustine

Sermon I by St. Augustine

Unbiblical Quote on Eating and Drinking and the supposed innate Sinfulness of such pleasures:

"How many there are who rush greedily to their eating and drinking, and make their whole life to consist in them. ... These will every wise man condemn, and holy Scripture especially, all gluttons, drunkards, gormandizers, 'whose god is their belly.' Nothing but the lust of the flesh, and not the need of refreshment, carries them to the table. These then fall upon their meat and drink. But they who descend to them from the duty of maintaining life, do not live to eat, but eat to live. Accordingly, if the offer were made to these wise and temperate persons that they should live without food or drink, with what great joy would they embrace the boon! that now they might not even be forced to descend to that which it had never been their custom to fall, but that they might be lifted up always in the Lord." - St. Augustine

Sermon I by St. Augustine

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