So far this has been a really brilliant series, I love the way this lady explains things, she makes history make sense and connect together so seamlessly. Why isn't she teaching at Yale? I'm only 14 minutes into this particular lecture, but I felt compelled to say that the Church's hatred of magic had a lot less to do with wanting to be the sole power over the supernatural, and more to do with being direct witnesses through missions and whatnot of how magic degrades society and cultures.
@leconfidant I didn't say any of that, @carsnookdotcom did. I thoroughly enjoyed these videos. Please look at who comments what. All I wanted to know was why it was blurred out.
I really wish you would stop saying Augustine was reading Plato... Augustine didn't know word one of Greek. He was reading Cicero primarily and maybe some Plotinus in Latin translation. His Platonism was highly filtered.
1-Did you know 29 chapters in the Quran starts with initials like Q, N, ALM, ALR,..No one did not have any clue about them. 38 years ago an American Biochemist feed the whole Quran into a main frame computer while he was working for Anheuser-Busch to analyze these Initials. Quran 74:30 Chapter Hidden Secret says "This Quran is over #19" after 4 years computer showed that the repetitions of those initials in each chapter is divisible by #19 His discovery purified the Quran from any distortions
Reformation brought the clear understanding that the Bible was the final authority rather than the RCC itself and the salvation comes from the Jews not Catholicism system (Revelation 17)