Comments by "Stephen D Green" (@stephendgreen1502) on "" video.

Sadly, Augustine, instead of preserving the original gospel message, may have introduced concepts that appeased an increasingly apostate church and its followers. Not what I would call Christian. (As per 2 John 9)
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I suppose if you follow a fairly undefined order, nobody can say whether you are truly following it or not 😊 Our baptism is into Christ, so our duty is to follow teachings of Christ.
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Black habits and an emblem which commonly symbolises erotic love???
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@inwardstream Only in the West. Is God Catholic?
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@inwardstream It is not the one who commends himself who is commended, but the one the Lord commends.
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@inwardstream Augustine's writings, especially on original sin, predestination, and grace, are often seen as problematic or overly rigid by many Eastern theologians. To my mind he went beyond the teachings of Christ. Running ahead like this, you lose the fellowship of the Father and the Son. So I personally find it a danger to faith to follow his teachings. As baptised into Christ, we must hold to and prefer the teachings of Christ, which to my mind he contradicted. If Orthodox, Catholics, and Protestants want to venerate him, it is up to them. I find him problematic.
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@noahtylerpritchett2682 Yet one of Augustine’s sons is Pope. Catholics have appropriated him as core teacher. Protestants too. More core than Christ, I would say.
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@noahtylerpritchett2682 Except a major early division happened after the Council of Chalcedon in 451, when the Oriental Orthodox Churches (such as the Coptic and Armenian Churches) split off. Also the Ethiopian Orthodox was not even Trinitarian for the early part of its history, partly due to limited engagement with the ecumenical councils.
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