Was Augustine a gnostic?

There is a problem with this character - Augustine of Hippo - he did not exist; he is one of the many inventions of the Christian textual tradition, he has no historicity - and this despite everything else you will read. In 2012, I approached an academic on this very question: James J. O'Donnell. read more

By teaching that free will was lost and sin is the result of a defect in our nature, or the necessity of our corrupted constitution, Augustine was infiltrating the Church with Gnostic concepts and doctrines. read more

Augustine, a former gnostic, lived between 354 and 430 AD, and introduced the following heretical views into church and made them popular 1. Absolute predestination (God decides who will be saved/doomed) 2. read more

At one point in his life, Augustine was a Gnostic. He was a member of the Manichaean religion, a syncretic, almost parasitical movement that at one point spread from Asia to the Mediterranean during the early middle ages. read more