The early "church father" "St."Augustine, helped seal the fate of the error of the immortality of the soul that still dominates from the pulpits of Christendom.
It seems he was trying to fuse common ground between the Manichean dualism of the time (he was a Manichean before his conversion to Christianity) and Millenarianism of the New Testament (which culminates in a resurrection)
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So he emphasized the idea that the "soul" lives on after death in heaven (borrowed from paganistic Platonic thinking--which Tertullian earlier espoused) and a dead physical body awaiting reunion at the resurrection with it's "soul".
A clever way of the serpent repeating the 1st LIE on earth, via the pen of St. Augustine....
It seems he was trying to fuse common ground between the Manichean dualism of the time (he was a Manichean before his conversion to Christianity) and Millenarianism of the New Testament (which culminates in a resurrection)
.
So he emphasized the idea that the "soul" lives on after death in heaven (borrowed from paganistic Platonic thinking--which Tertullian earlier espoused) and a dead physical body awaiting reunion at the resurrection with it's "soul".
A clever way of the serpent repeating the 1st LIE on earth, via the pen of St. Augustine....
And the serpent said unto the woman,
Ye shall not surely die:
Genesis 3:4
But God had said....
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
thou shalt not eat of it:
for in the day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die.
Genesis 2:17
