Tidbit 1

I feel like starting an entry called "Tidbits". Here is part one. These will be random at all times, and sometimes spiritual, insightful, dumb, funny, ridiculous, or just plain lame. haha. Enjoy!

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So I am researching the topic of predestination for a paper in my Church History class at seminary. This topic is a broad as it is long, but we have narrowed the scope a bit in what we are researching. (For those that care - we are discussing the biblical implications/relevance of Augustine's vs. Cassian's view of predestination of the faithful believers)

Here is a tidbit that jumped off the page....

Augustine (on the Father drawing believers to Christ...):

"[And so we teach] as, therefore, we speak justly when we say concerning any teacher of literature who is alone in a city, He(the teacher) teaches literature here to everybody,—not that all men learn, but that there is none who learns literature there who does not learn from him,—so we justly say, God teaches all men to come to Christ, not because all come, but because none comes in any other way."

How about that? And to think...this is not new knowledge, Augustine penned this in 428 A.D.....

thoughts?