Miracles seem to be everywhere in the early Christian literature, and it is striking how insistent all these ancient sources are it was precisely the wonder-working abilities of the Christians in the name of Christ and the Christian God that convinced potential converts to leave the religious traditions that nearly everyone around them had and had had for time immemorial to join this bizarre new faith in only one God who would provide salvation only to those who believed in the death and resurrection of Jesus.

But that’s the consistent testimony, and to cap it off I turn to Augustine, the greatest theologian in the history of Christianity, famous still today, incredibly learned, devout, and sincere, and not one who was prone to deception.  Augustine in fact wrote two treatises about lying, arguing that in NO circumstances, WHATSOEVER, was it EVER right to lie.  Not EVER.

He too reports that Christians did miracles and more than that, he claims explicitly that he had seen a whole lot of them.  He gives some details.

Here’s what I say about him in The Triumph of Christianity.

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Augustine of Hippo, the greatest theologian of Christian antiquity, published his famous City of God, in twenty-two books (416-422 CE).  Augustine had a clear sense of why the great miracles of Scripture had been recounted:  “The miracles were published that they might produce faith, and the faith which they produced brought them into greater prominence.”[1]  But some people – possibly a large number of people

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