5. The Fifth Century and St. Patrick 

I can’t tell you what a blessing your teachings have been to my life . God bless you !

So glad the LORD has placed faithful teachers like you in the PCUSA. POST TENEBRAS LUX!

Thank you Bruce for these priceless teachings.

Yes priceless. I'm continuing my education through you and loving it. Your connecting the dots for me and the picture of the Church is becoming much clearer than it ever was. I'm sure that some day I will be able to pass what you have given me. Very greatfull for your generosity.

May Father YAHweh bless your understanding and show you His Resurrected Son YAHwehShua. Praise Father YAHweh.

Excellent work. These lessons have been beneficial for me in the mornings. St. Patrick's story ought to be utilized more often when encouraging people to consider the mission field.

Donatiism was about excluding from the Church Christians (and especially church leaders) that had knuckled under to and collaborated with the Roman authorities during the Great Persecution under Diocletian to save their own hides. Donatists believed once you did that you were out forever. Many Christians asked for forgiveness and wanted to come back to the Church. The council concluded that the truly repentant should be forgiven and allowed back into fellowship. Patrick was the son of a Roman father and British Celtic mother. His father was in the civil service in what today is Wales. The Irish relate to him through Patrick’s Celtic blood through his mother but he was a Roman citizen. Most people don’t know this. Most think Patrick was Irish from Ireland.

You pointed out in this video one of the classic earmarks of a cult, that being that they always have a neatly packaged answer for doctrines that were traditionally mysterious or paradoxical. This is definitely something noteworthy that people should pay attention to.

Good lecture, thank you.

still great, thanks

Inspiring!

Thank you so much! Blessings in Christ.❤ Kina fr Sweden

Thank you Bruce - excellent teachings. Currently I am reading MacCulloch's "Christinity: The first three thousand years". Your teachings are making it live.

Mr. Gore, it amazes me how much you know over such a span of human/Biblical history. I have been watching your videos for roughly 2 years now, and I find myself repeating several - and still, I'm as insignificant in knowledge compared to you as a monkey is versus a human - okay, not that bad, however I'm still amazed - and spoken so eloquently... so much that my young daughters request to have the videos replayed at night as they fall asleep.

I love you lecture sir.... I read many of these before. You make it alive and interesting.... Also, you can connect the dots for me.... Truly enlightening....

Amen.

💯 genius lol I imagine that as soon as saint Patrick got back to Britain his parents asked him " so been a slave for six years have we? back to work" 😂😂

but im moving along through "the pauline paradox" from 119 ministries, i think its just yet another tier of refinement, from early church fathers, through the reformation, and now getting back to understanding the torah. observing the 7 moedim and shabbat is required of us just like baptism

I put three images of my shamrocks up on flickr. Pink-flowered wood-sorrel. Not trifolium. Oxalis. My mom swore up and down for years they are Irish. Take a look sometime if your bored.

What about the snakes?

I'm binge watching these Church History videos. I wish my OPC church did something like this. Our new pastor is one of those *emotional* types that drives me crazy with all his non-biblical stories. I have to do a facepalm almost every week.

Where did you learn to pronounce Augustine as if it were spelt Agustin?

What do you think on the theory of the Scottish being the descendants of the Scythians? If so, how could that be?

When did the catholic church come into existence?

The Nestorian controversy confuses me. I don't get the problem. It seems to me that if JESUS has one nature that 100% man and 100% GOD, or if He has 2 natures, one 100% GOD and the other 100% man, the result is the same. Seems an odd thing to fight about.

Augustine may be the only person to ever be more or less a full Catholic and Calvinist.

Pastor Gore, as you briefly touch on important aspects, doctrines, councils, etc. of Church History in this video I’m reminded of John Henry Newman who said, “To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.” As I’ve studied the Church and Her history more and more over the years I’m finding it more and more difficult to disagree with JH Newman. He was a brilliant man who’s in depth studies led him to the conclusion that the Catholic expression of Christianity is the historic and valid expression. You too are a brilliant and deeply studious man who’s knowledge and study of Church History has not brought you to that conclusion. So, I don’t know if you’re able to, but if so, what are your thoughts on this? What do you say to Newman’s assertion? Any videos or recommendations of any kind on this topic? Blessings...

Saint Patty was a baddy😂🔥🔥🔥

You should mention Nicholas along with Athenacius. It was Nicholas who actually punched Arius.

than you for the historicity. please refernce me to the culture in which Muhammad was formed. i.e. during the 550s ce and the state of Byzantine christianity and paganism. It seems to me that Muhammad chose concepts from paganism and Bysantine cheistianity and Judaism.

I bet that Irish guy that was condemning pig for being unclean was talking about st. Patrick would eaten it if he was that hungry.

Chalcedon was a semi-nestorian council. The later severan monophysitism was a superior formulation of Christology. The one theandric nature of Christ!

Jesus is the Word become flesh. His being is eternal, yet he took human form. So he is fully God in flesh.. his flesh is from Adam , yet the person of God never allowed the flesh he was born in to rise up and move him to word or deed. His Spirit led his flesh..Jesus had full mastery of his flesh.. and this he gave to God as a sacrifice to bear upon his flesh the guilt and suffer the penalty of the Law beatings , flaying , strokes of a rod , as a lamb , he was silent , he didnt cry out for revenge , he didnt revile those who put him to death.. he showed us how to behave as a son of God. Then having paid for our transgressions he awaited in the grave being in hades yet death had no authority to keep his body , nor his soul.. as he had not sinned in his flesh nor with his Spirit, he by the fathers judgement arose from the dead vindicated , holy, righteous , just , the redeemer of all Gods saints , the redeemer of every sinner near to God and those far from God, thats humble themselves and recognise their works of righteousness cannot save them from damnation becore a Just God, cry out to God in his name , for mercy , have his blood applied to their confessesd sin , and that sin os removed from their record.. and so long as they then follow the Son Jesus of Nazareth , will upon death be translated to paradise until the resurrection on the last day.

And this is what drives me away from all organized religion. Much ado about nothing . To much washing the outside of the pot while lining up to open our eggs at the little end! Is that an egg poacher? Blasphemy!

As far as I am concern Jesus the Christ was a 100% man of divine origins, the Son of God, but not God. He is the "image" of the invisible God. We can call him God, however, because he represents God of earth. If we see him is like seeing God, but he is not God. They call the nature of Christ a mystery because makes absolutely no sense what they propose. 1 Cor 8:6 "Cults have a good answer to every question"

I'm a Calvinistic Baptist, but I don't think Augustine is that great a theologian. Too catholic and somewhat of a muddle head. He lived in difficult times I understand. And grappled with questions only the much later reformers really dealt effectively with. Only the very late Augustine has some merit as theologian.