Was "CALVINISM" introduced by Augustine?

After being a student of cults and for almost 50 years, I can tell you that anytime you go outside of the Bible to later works (i.e. "Book of Mormon," Watchtower publications, "Science and Health," the "Apocrypha," "Divine Principle," "Dianetics," etc.) you get heresy. It's amazing that those who scream "Sola Scriptura" the loudest have to appeal to The Institutes and Augustianism to get their doctrine. Using the Bible only will not support what they teach.

I am happy to see the content of my "Beyond Augustine" documentary being promoted and making some grounds in the Academic world. Praise God!

It's pretty bold (and even arrogant, IMO) to eschew the first 500 years worth of scholarly teachings of early church leaders, only to accept the confused ramblings of a Manicheistic philosopher as the unadulterated gospel. I find it ironic that the Manichaeism which influenced Augustine's theology was birthed in the very Gnosticism the apostle Paul was confronting in his epistles. I pray eyes will be opened by your efforts, Dr. Flowers.

Calvinists make the mistake that if we don't adhere to the belief, we're Arminianists. Nothing could be further from the truth. How about the word BOTH. Yes God chose us, yes God pursued us, yes God died for us because he loved us, now we just must receive the gift. Both. How can Jesus be at 100% man and 100% God? Pretty confusing unless you use the word BOTH. Who wrote the book of Romans Paul or God.., who lives your Christian Life you or God? The word BOTH is huge when it comes to understanding the bible. Especially when understanding salvation. All glory to my Lord and Savior. Jesus christ.

How can any open minded Calvinist not read Wilson’s book? The implications are earth shattering.

As I really enjoy your debunking calvanism and exposing its gnostic belief root. But the failure I need to bring up is that OSAS or unconditional eternal security was also created by gnostics and not the early church writings.

I read some late writings of Luther, in which he said he used to be all about Augustine, but once he realized that the just shall live by faith, Augustine had to go! He was complaining about the new, young preachers who were all about predestination. I respect Luther for undermining his own prior teaching about the bondage of the will, surely his most famous book. I do not know where to find what I read; I probably wrote down the source, but don't have it or can't find it now.

This is fascinating...Thank you for sharing it man of God.I always appreciate your insights.

this video is truly amazing Leighton , you are blessed by God to spread the truth .

This is an excellent overview of the topic. Thank you.

I remember learning about the important theologians in church history (at a Calvinistic leaning college). The Apostles, Augustine, Luther, Zwingli and Calvin. I wondered about those giant gaps in the timeline. What happened in between these few? My Calvinist education didn’t have an explanation.

Instead of studying early church fathers, I’ve read the Bible for 15 years. Every two years I go through the scriptures entirely and plan to continue through my life on earth. There is honestly no clear message about these matters and if you focus on predestination will lose the chief message of the scriptures. Studying from Genesis through Revelation you can easily see a pattern the Lord uses through observing history as cause and effect. This helps us see what God has done and how man has responded to those things God has done in time on this earth. God has shown us from the beginning that he loves us and wants to be with us, and this comforts the sinner. I will admit that the scriptures talks about predestination at times, but it isn’t clear to us. God does not reveal these details in full the way he reveals his saving love in sending his own son to die for the sins of all people. Faith is the only way this gift can be received and even that is the gift of God. So we see some paradox’s in scripture/seemingly. They appear that way to us because as Romans 11:33 points out we are not able to see all God can. So we rest in his eternal wisdom and understanding and not our own.

I love your podcasts. Very clear & helpful.. You are a gentleman🌱

Is there a work comparable in your theological understanding to calvins institutes of the Christian religion? I would like to study it from your perspective Thank you

Thanks for this video Dr Flowers.

Waiting for the Calvinists to come out of the woodwork to claim that Leighton is misrepresenting Calvinism. After all, why would Calvin and Calvinist teachers know anything about Calvinism?

Well done my friend, well done. This is so important to know where calvin's poison came from. Dave Hunt's work. "What Love is this?" on YouTube is another must view on this crazy subject of calvinism.

Thank you so much for producing this video! The connection of Calvinism and Augustinianism - and the impact Augustine had on church history - needs to be established more clearly in the current discussion. Thank you, again.

Augustine was also a primary architect in transforming the Church from a mindset that eschewed violence to one that embraced it to accommodate the State.

Are these quotes in a book or blog somewhere?