Friday, February 16, 2018

Something from ... Augustine on where one places his faith


Something from Augustine on Good Works and where one places his faith:

“It is to be feared … lest poor wretched man, when he leads a good life and performs good works (or rather thinks that he leads a good life and performs good works), should dare to glorify in himself and not in the Lord, and to put his hope of righteousness living in himself alone...”  (Augustine, Selections from “On Grace and Free Will,” chapter 6)

Seems to me that Augustine could have been a Lutheran, teaching that we are saved by faith alone and not by our works.  This is also why Lutherans believe that we are still the church catholic.  We teach what the Church has always taught.

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