In today’s episode, we examine how fidelity to the teachings of Christ is paradoxically strengthened by the presence of heretical groups, as Justin Martyr argues in Dialogue with Trypho, Chapter 35. He presents these deviations not as undermining the faith but as confirming Christ’s own predictions about false teachers and schisms. Augustine, in Confessions, Book VII, Chapters 10–11, continues this theme of discernment by recounting his interior encounter with the immutable Light of God, emphasizing the ontological distinction between the Creator and mutable creation. Finally, in Summa Theologica, Part I, Question 50, Article 1, Aquinas addresses the incorporeal nature of angels, concluding that they are not composed of matter and form but are pure intellectual substances. Together, these readings trace a coherent theological trajectory: error clarifies truth, divine illumination reveals creaturely limitation, and metaphysical analysis confirms the uniqueness of spiritual beings in the divine order.
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