JOEL 2 GENERATION

This year Lent begins ON VALENTINE'S DAY. And as a result, many who observe the Lenten Fast will not begin it on this coming Wednesday. I did a short blog post about it today.  LINK https://keto4christians.wordpress.com/2024/02/10/it-is-never-a-convenient-time-to-fast/ By the way, as a result, my wife and are celebrating Valentine's Day tomorrow instead.  For such a time as this...

A strange thing happened in the early 5th Century AD. A theologian who did NOT understand Greek misunderstood a Latin translation of Romans 5:12 and began to teach that "Original Sin" meant that mankind was born GUILTY of Adam's sin. This was NOT the teaching of the early church. It was novelty. A theological innovation. The universal teaching of the early church was that we became 'guilty' of sin when we ourselves sinned. No one was born "guilty" of sin.  Instead of the earlier belief that physical death entered the world due to Adam's sin, this theologian also taught that SPIRITUAL DEATH was also something that we inherited as sons and daughters of Adam. Another novelty; theological innovation. The theologian in question was none other than St. Augustine. The influence of these "novelties" cannot be underestimated. Both the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant Reformers were Augustinians. His theology left an imprint on these churches