'St. Augustine’s Confessions\r'

'During his measure, St. Augustine wrote thirteen autobiographical harbours entitled â€Å"Confessions”. The book tells how St. Augustine lifetime was changed from supporting a sinful life to his novelty to Christianity. later studying the Confessions by St. Augustine, several parallelisms basis be seen between the express autobiography and the one-time(a) and new-fashioned testament of the Christian Bible. Parallelisms do not seem only within the schoolbook but as well as in structure and format. wholeness of the major parallelisms that can be seen between Augustine’s Confession and the Bible is the pattern or authority of developing apiece stage or dissolve of each one.\r\nThe Bible started by the creative activity of everything graspable by the human senses. On the other hand, Augustine’s Confession started by telling the story of Augustine’s childhood, his birth. Thus, Augustine’s birth symbolizes the creation in the introduc tory of book of the Bible, in the book of Genesis. The development of Augustine’s Confessions besides followed the selfsame(prenominal) trend as the Bible. The get-go eight books of the Confessions told the story of Augustine’s life from babyhood to living in sin and then, finding his counsel of life to idol.\r\nThe story of Augustine’s infancy can be related to the story of Adam and evening 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 humanity along with its sinful desires that causes Augustine to live a life afar from paragon, just as Adam and Eve after eating the fruit of knowledge of profound and evil. Augustine continues to live his life following the desires of the flesh until he sees hopelessness without God. This part of Augustine’s life in some way reflects the Old Testament.\r\nThe Israelites continued to sin causing them to make water the promise land in a portion longer time. The later part of the Confessions can to a fault be linked to the innovative Testament. Augustine was Christianized that also symbolizes metempsychosis, 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 pertinacious ages in Augustine’s life can be viewed as the Old Testament wherein the people lived in sin. On the other hand, Augustine’s conversion can be viewed as the New Testament wherein God provided salvation and a new birth.\r\nThus, it can be noticed that the transition of events in the deuce books atomic number 18 also equal 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 delivers of past events: the birth and early life of Augustine and the creation in the Old Testament. The last parts of the devil books are also connected; they both speak of future events. The last part of Augustine’s Confessions stated the eagerness of Augustine to interpret the inner meanings and messages of the Bible.\r\nHe terminate the Confessions 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 figurehead of God, the eternal life. In the same way, the Revelation or the last book of the New Testament speaks of things to hang in a figurative 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 full-strength meaning. The Revelation was full of symbolisms in the same way as the last book of the Confessions.\r\nBoth 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 B ible, God reveals himself to man by and through angels, visions and others because of the inability of man to pass along 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 God in their own way and thus, it was God providing man the means of understanding and obeying Him. Another semblance is that the Bible was comprised of different books (67 books in all) that also embarrass several chapters.\r\nIn 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 thus 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 coetaneous time follows the same format a s the Confessions in which the original pattern can be grow to the Bible of Christianity.\r\n'