User talk:M.bone1/Notes on Augustine's Confessions

Section 1
Where is the beginning...
 * of our relationship with you... [not with ourselves]
 * "you prompt us yourself... you made us tilted"


 * so that we know whom to call? [a wrong number would be catastrophic]
 * Do we just assume whoever answers our call - our broadcast cry for help - will be you?

Romans 10:14 lays out the progression of a beginning relationship with God - proclamation leads to hearing leads to believing leads to calling. The temporary workaround of faith says, "I'll begin by believing you exist." (cf. Hebrews 11:6)


 * Yet even belief itself (which leads us to call on and to seek) is the gift of God.
 * "faith... which you breathed into me by the humanity your Son assumed."


 * Note that faith is spirit-mediated, originating in the humanity of Jesus as the Christ.
 * breath and spirit are identical in both Latin and Greek, cf. John 20 where Jesus breathes on the the disciples and says, "Receive the Holy Spirit."


 * Spirit may also be considered the coming together of power and meaning.