Augustine Confessions Book 10

Chapter 1 shows us Augustines dependence on God.

Chapter 2 Speaks to God knowing thee thoughts of your heart even if you don’t speak them aloud. Specifically the sins we might confess to him.

Chapter 3 Augustine speaks about the confessions we make to other men. And that they may be true but we also could be lying to them. ONLY GOD knows the heart of men and what they truly are thinking.

Chapter 4 How true brother and sisters in Christ should respond to others when they learn of one another’s sins. We rejoice with each other when we do well and we grieve with each other when we fail. And any good we do is Because of Gods grace.

Chapter 5 We can not truly Know ourselves until we are in the new heavens and the New Earth. And this is Becasue of Sin. We only understand our sinful nature because of the grace of God that shines into our minds and exposes our sinful Condition.

Chapter 6 Augustine speaks of our election and apart from it we would have deaf ears. He also compares animals knowledge of their creator.

Chapter 7- 9 He speaks about how our different senses operate and how they can remember what flowers smell like or how honey tastes Ect.

Chapter 10 He is making that the argument that we know things in our mind and it only comes to the conclusion or realization when someone teaches us or sparks these memories or ideas.

Chapter 11 He speaks of the memory and if we don’t keep certain facts that maybe we have memorized in the past a fresh by reciting them they are harder for us to recall,

Chapter 12 Ideas come to us or facts come to us because they just are truth or facts and not because parts of our body have reported them to us like touch.

Chapter 13

Chapter 14 He says for the MINd is one thing and the Body is another. He speaks about our understanding of desire joy fear and sorrow and then we recall these things by thinking about past events in which we have experienced theses emotions.

Chapter 15 Things don’t need to be in front of our eyes for us to remember them. Like the Sun and the Moon.

Chapter 16 Page 222 He says to the Lord He has become a problem to himself in reguards to this study of memory and forgetfulness. I remember a memory from my childhood vaguely about my knee that was cut open when jumping between jungle gyms. But I had almost completly forgot that this happened until my sister reminded me that it had happened when talking with my mother warning my nephew not to jump between the jungle gyms.

Chapter 17