This is Scott Han and I want to welcome you to the Road to Amaeus, a podcast from the St Paul Center. In the decline in fall of Sacred Scripture,

in the decline in fall of Sacred Scripture, Scott Hahn and Benjamin Waiker

uncover the disturbing trends in Scripture scholarship that have contributed to our current crisis of faith.

But they also show why we should be skeptical of the skeptics and why we should trust the Bible.

Learn more in our show notes at St Paul Center.com forward slash

road. And Paul is not only a personal hero of mine and the one I hold most responsible

for making me Catholic but he is also arguably the most influential

writer in human history. Whose writings have been studied and read as much as his,

whose writings have been studied and debated as much as his.

When you look at church history, you discover what Harnach said and others too,

that the history of Christian theology is sort of a history of all of the debates about what in fact

Paul really meant. You go back to the second century and the Gnostics were always taking his

side or they thought they were following Paul until a man like St.

Irenaeus comes along and shows us how to read him a write.

Palagius thought that salvation was something that we could do ourselves, you know,

and if you were weak well you might need God's grace. But

St. Augustine used St. Paul at the end of the fourth century of the early fifth century to

show that no without grace without the power of the Holy Spirit as St St Paul taught us, there's nothing we can do

that is pleasing to God.

He alone can make us his children and he does it not by our own merit but by what Christ has

merited, by the power of the Holy Spirit, by the grave. our own

what Christ has merited by the power of the Holy Spirit,

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