St. Augustine’s Confessions

During his time, St. Augustine wrote thirteen autobiographical loudnesss entitled acknowledgments. The book tells how St. Augustine brio was changed from nutriment a hellful life to his conversion to Christianity. After studying the Confessions by St. Augustine, several parallelisms go off be seen between the said autobiography and the sr. and New volition of the Christian Bible. Parallelisms do not appear lonesome(prenominal) deep down the text but as well as in structure and format. One of the major parallelisms that buttocks be seen between Augustines Confession and the Bible is the pattern or management of developing from each one stage or part of each one.The Bible started by the presentation of everything perceivable by the human senses. On the other hand, Augustines Confession started by telling the narrative of Augustines childhood, his birth. Thus, Augustines birth symbolizes the man in the first of book of the Bible, in the book of Genesis. The development o f Augustines Confessions similarly followed the same trend as the Bible. The first eight books of the Confessions told the story of Augustines life from infancy to living in sin and then, decision his way to God.The story of Augustines infancy can be related to to the story of Adam and Eve in the Old Testament. As an infant, Augustine knows secret code of sin, innocent as Adam and Eve were in the beginning. Then, Augustine was exposed to the being along with its sinful desires that causes Augustine to live a life afar from God, dear as Adam and Eve after eating the fruit of noesis of good and evil. Augustine continues to live his life following the desires of the flesh until he sees hopelessness without God. This part of Augustines life somehow reflects the Old Testament.The Israelites continued to sin causing them to put on the promise land in a throne longer time. The later part of the Confessions can in like manner be conjugate to the New Testament. Augustine was Chris tianized that also symbolizes rebirth, rebirth in his attitudes and views of life just as the New Testament signifies the birth of Christ, the one who is to save the people. The dark ages in Augustines life can be viewed as the Old Testament wherein the people lived in sin. On the other hand, Augustines conversion can be viewed as the New Testament wherein God provided salvation and a new birth.Thus, it can be noticed that the transition of events in the 2 books ar also similar to each other the conversion of Augustine to Christianity and the embodiment of Jesus Christ. Consequently, it can be said that the first part of the Confessions, comparable the Old Testament speaks of past events the birth and early life of Augustine and the launching in the Old Testament. The last parts of the two books are also connected they both speak of future events. The last part of Augustines Confessions stated the eagerness of Augustine to interpret the inner meanings and messages of the Bible.H e ended the Confessions by referring to the Sabbath, the seventh day when God rested. Augustine refers to the Sabbath figuratively that can also be interpreted as the final rest of the soul in the movement of God, the eternal life. In the same way, the Revelation or the last book of the New Testament speaks of things to come in a metaphorical sense. Thus, it can be concluded that both the last part of the two books are to be viewed in a metaphorical way in determine to understand its true meaning. The Revelation was full of symbolisms in the same way as the last book of the Confessions.Both leaves the readers time to reflect and to await for the true meanings and essence of the text in their own way. Both in the Old and New Testament of the Bible, God reveals himself to man through angels, visions and others because of the unfitness of man to reach Him. In the same way, Augustine sees God through the life of his mother through her actions and advice. Both show the inability of ma n to reach to God in their own way and thus, it was God providing man the path of understanding and obeying Him. Another similarity is that the Bible was comprised of different books (67 books in all) that also include several chapters.In the same way, Augustine wrote several books of which each were named by their order, that is, Book 1 to 13. Each book of The Confessions is also divided in to chapters that are similar to the chapters of the books in the Bible. Thus, it can be said that parallelisms thence occur between the Holy Bible of Christianity and the Confessions by St. Augustine both within and outside of the text. It can also be said that most Christian literatures of the contemporary time follows the same format as the Confessions in which the maestro pattern can be rooted to the Bible of Christianity.