Argument Logic

Saint Augustine was a professor of rhetoric who grew up in Northern Africa and was known to engage in many love affairs. At age 33 Augustine was baptized into the Christian faith becoming a bishop of Hippo.

As a bishop Augustine use rhetorical skills and arguments known to have a huge impact on the Christianity faith. Augustine theological works in the Christian faith brought forth ideas and personal views on God and time. According to Axia College Week One reading Argument and Logic (2010), Augustine states “God does not exist in time; instead, time began with the creation by God of the world. God is beyond time” (p. 83)

Augustine maintained his belief, time exist in the mind of people. Augustine support his claim, time only exist in the mind of people by using argument, logic, and counterarguments. The arguments he used is only the present exist and the past is memories in the mind of humans, although things in the past are real. Because things in the present do not exist, the memory stays in the human minds.

Augustine Confessions According to Axia College Week One reading (2010), Argument and Logic “The present of things past is memory; the present of things present is sight; and the present of things future is expectation” (p. 83)

I found Augustine views and arguments to be attentive, he also made powerful arguments of his analysis of time and what is real and nonexistent, which is somewhat true. However, there were some weaknesses in the theory on the things that occurred in the past to be real. I believe understanding the meaning of what is real one will see that things are real in only the present time or time to come.

Other weakness to the argument was God being beyond time or within time. Because of other uncertainty in the theory it may be impossible proving the statement to be true. One accepting Augustine argument and logic would not have to question the existence of God.

Augustine believes the past is only real in the minds of human...