Christianity before Christ

[Charlotte408]

Reading this book with a friend:

"Our Sun God - Or Christianity before Christ’ by John Denham Parsons.

He uses St. Augustine as an example, “The very thing which is now called the Christian religion existed among the ancients also, nor was it wanting from the inception of the human race until the coming of Christ in the flesh, at which point the true religion which was already in existence began to be called Christian.”

Any takers on what St. Augustine meant by this?

 

[ZDHayden]

Reading this book with a friend:

"Our Sun God - Or Christianity before Christ’ by John Denham Parsons.

He uses St. Augustine as an example, “The very thing which is now called the Christian religion existed among the ancients also, nor was it wanting from the inception of the human race until the coming of Christ in the flesh, at which point the true religion which was already in existence began to be called Christian.”

Any takers on what St. Augustine meant by this?

All true Christianity is is fulfilled Judaism. Perhaps this is what Augustine was referring to?

 

[Barbkw]

Matthew 5:17:

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.”

Judaism began when God formed a family relationship with a pagan tribesman - Abram.

The New Testament fulfills the Old.

In addition, in that mysterious way of the Divine Trinity; God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit existed together always.

 

[Robert_Burns]

Reading this book with a friend:

"Our Sun God - Or Christianity before Christ’ by John Denham Parsons.

He uses St. Augustine as an example, “The very thing which is now called the Christian religion existed among the ancients also, nor was it wanting from the inception of the human race until the coming of Christ in the flesh, at which point the true religion which was already in existence began to be called Christian.”

Any takers on what St. Augustine meant by this?

Read The Holy Gospel According to St John Chapter one and equate “The Word” as JESUS. Jesus is , after all , GOD.

Pax

 

[floresco]

Reading this book with a friend:

"Our Sun God - Or Christianity before Christ’ by John Denham Parsons.

He uses St. Augustine as an example, “The very thing which is now called the Christian religion existed among the ancients also, nor was it wanting from the inception of the human race until the coming of Christ in the flesh, at which point the true religion which was already in existence began to be called Christian.”

Any takers on what St. Augustine meant by this?

There was a concept among the Church Fathers known as “semina verbi” i.e. “seeds of the Word” which held that elements of the truth existed in pagan religions. There is some controversy today about whether this concept has been over extended by modern thinkers:The argument in brief is that the “semina Verbi” (seeds of the Word) referred to by the Church Fathers as present in classical Greek thinkers “has been illegitimately extended by the Second Vatican Council to include religions, cultures and national traditions of non-Christian people,” according to the article

Read the article at zenit.org/article-9081?l=english for more details. Scroll down to the second article entitled “Seeds of the Word.”