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St. Augustine Confessions

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Growing up the son of two very Christian parents, I have heard my fair share of sermons, with varying ranges of quality. The most common traits among the more successful communicators include passion, demonstration of thought, carefully crafted diction, and the ability to include believable personal testimony. From the beginning of Confessions, St. Augustine demonstrates the validity of his convictions, in a manner akin to a devoted pastor in today’s Church environment. Although some of Augustine’s notions are outdated, he voices the magnitude of his commitment to the God as his savior in a similar rhetorical fashion as a spokesman/woman for a Church would today, showing that he laid a foundation for the field of theology today. Even though
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Before meeting Lady Continence, Augustine feels torn “between [the lust] against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh”; he wants to harmonize his feelings so he can “become [Y] our soldier” (VIII.11), who is not “bound to the earth… afraid of being rid of all my burdens” (VIII.11). Augustine feels guilty for being between a righteous life with God and an imperfect life with his secular desires, because he has acknowledged that a better life exists than he is living. However, he has not been able to make the full jump to being right with God. As a result of his internal dissonance, Augustine’s guilt manifests in a physically as Lady Continence. She appears to Augustine as “serene and cheerful without coquetry”, and tells Augustine to join the others who have already relinquished their earthly desires: “Cast yourself upon him, do not be afraid… Make the leap without anxiety; he will catch you and heal you” (VIII.27).

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Young Augustine and elderly Scrooge both have an imbalance between superficial success and internal happiness. In Augustine’s anecdote about his encounter with a drunk beggar he is miffed by the happiness of a seemingly hopeless beggar. Despite his success in his career, Augustine’s internal struggle to find meaning prevents him from achieving happiness. On the other hand, Scrooge requires three trips with ghosts to realize that there is a better path of existence.

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Augustine, the Pear Tree, and Original Sin In The Confessions, by Saint Augustine, Augustine discusses his life events and the journey he took to find his faith. In Book II, Augustine talks about an incident in his life where he and his friends stole pears from his neighbor’s tree. This experience was a huge moment in Augustine's adolescent life, it was sin that Augustine realizes he has committed. Comparatively, this could be considered Augustine’s original sin. Augustine did not steal the pears because he needed them for himself, he stole them for the sake of stealing which is what made the sin an egregious act.

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Augustine still hurt, and shook up, about what she had heard, continued to run as fast as she could outside across the fields. She knew exactly the direction she was going, there was a special place where she would always go to think, clear her mind, and just relax. It was about a quarter of a mile east of the plantation, under a huge oak tree that stood in the middle of a wide-open clearing. Augustine would immediately spot the tree, run with it, and as she hugged it, she slid down to the tree roots and continued to cry even harder. Why, why couldn't they just tell me the truth, said Augustine out loud.

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Without even noticing, we all have support from people. The people who support us are trying to lead us on the right path so we are not led astray. We all have sinned in our life, and sinning only makes us as human as St. Augustine was. In the film Restless Heart we see how St. Augustine’s sins were one of the factors for his conversion. St. Augustine felt guilt for his sins when he realized what he had done in his lifetime.

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Humans have roamed the earth for thousands of years. One would think that in that time period humans would change, but in reality our basic instincts, our likes and dislike are the same. Though this may seem far fetched from reading The Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo one is able to draw parallels from themselves to Saint Augustine and from todays society to his even though we are separated by more than sixteen hundred years. While reading this book there were several things that Augustine did or felt that jumped out at me because it was something that I had struggled with as well. The first big thing that Augustine and I both had in common was stealing in our youth, and it’s something neither of us our proud of.

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He is beginning to realize that he has to change his ways in order to reach absolution. In the ninth book, Augustine shows how he was able to finally connect with God through his books and teachings. “I read on: Tremble and sin no more, and this moved me deeply, my God, because now I had learned to tremble from my past, so that in the future I might sin no more.” (Book IX, Section 4, Page 187) This shows that Augustine was finally able to find God through the readings of the Bible.

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