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Tony Richie | PentecostalTheology.com
ST AUGUSTINE ON LOCKER ROOM TALK
“I ran headlong with such great blindness that I was ashamed to be remiss in vice in the midst of my comrades. For I heard them boast of their disgraceful acts, and glory in them all the more, the more debased they were. There was pleasure in doing this, not only for the pleasure of the act, but also for the praise it brought. What is worthy of censure if not vice? But lest I be put to scorn, I made myself more depraved than I was . Where there was not actual deed, by which I would be on equal footing with the most abandoned, I pretended that I had done what I had not done, lest I be considered more contemptible because I was actually more innocent, and lest I be held a baser thing because more chaste than the others.”
–Confessions, Bk 2, Ch 3
Marty Mittelstadt
Wow. I had gen-ed students read and assess excerpts of Augustine’s conversion a few weeks ago. We talked about some of the political commentary surrounding the upcoming election. And all of this before Trump’s weekend idiocy. So your attempt to offer cryptic comparison is easily decoded.
Jim Price
Brought to mind a COG evangelist I had years ago who sprinkled his sins ( before conversion ) in all his sermons.He got down and dirty and in detail and deserved at least an R rating. I never invited him back.
Varnel Watson
It’s some serious theological shade. Faith leaders are calling out the Religious Right for failing to abandon Trump https://thinkprogress.org/a-list-of-faith-leaders-calling-out-the-religious-right-for-failing-to-abandon-trump-7a2ee8fb26e6#.d62ehwbq6
Varnel Watson
Discussed promptly when it came out but here it is again
Varnel Watson
hey now Stan Wayne that Trump of yours he sure grabs on righteousness like there’s no tomorrow 🙂
Stan Wayne
Troy Day : do you understand words like “equal” or “in favor of” ?
Varnel Watson
Stan Wayne Do you understand that Trump is nowhere near righteousness? https://books.google.com/books?id=6xQgDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT188&lpg=PT188&dq=trump+righteousness&source=bl&ots=JNYU00_rji&sig=KzaRrNnvg-QGD01UASO65k_u9Pw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi67dvRtI3QAhXJ4CYKHePlC24Q6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=trump%20righteousness&f=false
Stan Wayne
He doesn’t have to be to be in favor of it
Charles Page
Stan Wayne, do you understand that Troy Day is nowhere near righteous, he is as a filthy rag
Joseph D. Absher
Please try to refrain your self in front of the children
Varnel Watson
I once was lost in sin but Jesus took me in
Trump was lost in sin but now he’s deeper in
Charles Page
How deep are the Clintons
Varnel Watson
It’s not a competition 🙂
Charles Page
I have the supernatural gift of deductive reasoning
Charles Page
You can have minimal unrighteousness?
Peter Ciple
Trump is now a born again believer in case you didn’t get that news.
Charles Page
no, he was born Presbyterian and baptized and that is his new birth.
Stan Wayne
How do you know – is it that pesky gift of prophecy 😉
Varnel Watson
Stan Are you responding slow because you are writing from AOL again?
Charles Page
he’s prophecying to COG and you have to do it slow with a drawl!!
Stan Wayne
PropheSying
Varnel Watson
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/05/politics/florida-early-voting/
Peter Ciple
She is a murderer.
Anonymous
appreciate Tony Richie posting this one back in the day but what is this Augustine talk Kyle Williams about him introducing penance and self penalty and indulgences PLUST temp purgatory cleansing This most certainly cannot be reformed Augustine talk?
Anonymous
a peculiar thing Philip Williams Joseph D. Absher Tony Richie
Anonymous
Troy Day Pentecostals don’t do locker room!
Anonymous
Philip Williams Trump did…
Anonymous
Troy Day is Trump a Holy Roller?