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Until Augustine (4th Century after Christ), the witness of the early Church took Jesus' words quite literally. The first three centuries were, needless to say, a time of enormous expansion of the Church of Christ, even under awful circumstances. There is a slight possibility that the reason Christianity is on the decline in the United States is that it doesn't take the witness of the New Testame…