22. What did Augustine, the father of this theocratical or church-and-state theory, teach concerning
it?
Answer
"Who doubts but what it is better to be led to God by instruction than by fear of punishment or affliction?
But because the former, who will be guided only by instruction, are better, the others are still not to be
neglected. . . . Many, like bad servants, must often be reclaimed to their Master by the rod of temporal
suffering, ere they can attain to this highest stage of religious development. "-Id., pages 214, 215.
How is justification laid hold upon?
What classes of persons are necessarily shut out of the kingdom of God?
Through whom was a restoration of the lost dominion promised to Abraham?
Whose presence does the Holy Spirit bring to the believers?
What message has God commissioned His ministers to bear to men?
What did God purpose to do with the people of that day?
For whose sake did Christ say the period of papal persecution would be shortened?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle