Today’s readings explore how creation itself bears witness to the triune God and how early Christian thinkers dismantled false teachings through careful argument. We begin with Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho (Chapters 21–22), where he argues that Sabbaths and sacrifices were given not as eternal laws, but as responses to Israel’s sin. Next, in Confessions, Book V, Chapter 2, Augustine recounts a striking argument by his friend Nebridius that undermines the Manichaean worldview by exposing the absurdity of a corruptible divine substance. Finally, Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologica, Part I, Question 45, Article 7, shows how all creatures necessarily bear a trace of the Trinity through their being, form, and order, even if imperfectly. Together, these readings unveil how creation, reason, and faith work in harmony to reveal the true God.
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