Augustine, Original Sin, Total Depravity, and the Fall of Free Will

This is a Chapter from the book The Deformation: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G5JLTHD7 Did the earliest Christians believe in Total Depravity, Predestination, and the doctrines later associated with Calvinism? Or did those ideas enter the church centuries later through Augustine of Hippo? In this video, we explore one of the most controversial questions in Christian history: the rise of Augustinian theology and its connection to doctrines like Original Sin, Total Depravity, Irresistible Grace, and Predestination. We examine the teachings of the early church fathers, the influence of Gnosticism and Neoplatonism, the Pelagian controversy, and the famous mistranslation of Romans 5:12 in the Latin Vulgate.