He says Augustine repeatedly equates living by one's own standard, instinct, intuition, or imagination with becoming like the devil.
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He says Augustine repeatedly equates living by one's own standard, instinct, intuition, or imagination with becoming like the devil.
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"...and not by the standard of God he is like the devil all right"
"...when you choose to follow your nature you are like the devil there's only by negating yourself there's only by denying yourself can you..."
"not choose yeah so this is a so so the thing about August that's very important for us to understand is he studied rhetoric..."
"...by the name of Thos, he makes a deal with the devil because he has an insatiable appetite for knowledge. And that's a good..."
"...parents of Hector, to go insane, okay? They're screaming at this devil. And the Greeks, okay, Odysseus, Agamemnon, are disgusted because for them, Hector..."
"...that he came to this world to experience everything there is devil he had to come to experience the bitterness of death as well..."
"with Mephistopheles, the devil, and says, and Mephistopheles says, I will give you eternal wisdom in return for your eternal life, your soul. And..."
"...no, no, no. This divine spark, it is that of the devil, and we must imprison it, okay? And this works most of the..."
"...is the divine spark is that of Satan, that of the devil. And therefore, you must obey the Catholic Church. But if you insist..."
"...original sin, when we did evil, we became slaves to the devil. When Jesus killed us, it's because he, sorry, when Jesus died, it..."
"...think for ourselves because we will be led astray by the devil. We must listen to the priest. We should not read the Bible..."
"...the contrary of humility, exercise supreme dominion in Christ's adversary. The devil, this is assuredly the greatest difference that thunders the two cities in..."
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