St. Augustine’s Confessions

During his clock time, St. Augustine wrote thirteen autobiographical books entitled Confessions. The book tells how St. Augustine life was changed from living a sinful life to his regeneration to Christianity. afterward studying the Confessions by St. Augustine, several parallelisms shadower be seen between the said autobiography and the onetime(a) and unexampled will of the Christian Bible. Parallelisms do not appear only within the text but as well as in structure and format. One of the major parallelisms that can be seen between Augustines Confession and the Bible is the pattern or focus of developing separately stage or digress of each one.The Bible started by the creation of everything perceivable by the human senses. On the other hand, Augustines Confession started by telling the story of Augustines childhood, his birth. Thus, Augustines birth symbolizes the creation in the low gear of book of the Bible, in the book of Genesis. The development of Augustines Confession s to a fault followed the identical trend as the Bible. The depression eight books of the Confessions told the story of Augustines life from infancy to living in sin and then, finding his way to God.The story of Augustines infancy can be related to the story of Adam and eve in the Old Testament. As an infant, Augustine knows nothing of sin, innocent as Adam and Eve were in the beginning. Then, Augustine was exposed to the sphere along with its sinful desires that causes Augustine to live a life afar from God, just as Adam and Eve after eating the fruit of knowledge 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 seduce the promise land in a lot longer time. The later part of the Confessions can also be linked to the youthful Testament. Augustine was Christianized that also symbolizes re birth, 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 cardinal books are also corresponding to each other the conversion of Augustine to Christianity and the incarnation of Jesus Christ. Consequently, it can be said that the first part of the Confessions, like the Old Testament speaks of past events the birth and early life of Augustine and the creation in the Old Testament. The last parts of the both books are also connected they both speak of future events. The last part of Augustines Confessions verbalise the eagerness of Augustine to interpret the inner meanings and messages of the Bible.He ended the Confessi ons 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 bearing of God, the eternal life. In the same way, the Revelation or the last book of the New Testament speaks of things to gravel 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 order to understand its veritable 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 search 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 inability of man to realize Him. In the same way, Augustine sees God through the life of his mother through her actions and advice. Both show the inability of man to reach to G od in their own way and thus, it was God providing man the means of understanding and obeying Him. Another parity 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 indeed 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 contemporaneous time follows the same format as the Confessions in which the original pattern can be root to the Bible of Christianity.