It's difficult to know exactly how to respond to a post like this. Carrie apparently labors under a common Protestant delusion: that St. Augustine was some sort of crypto-proto-Protestant. But nothing could be further from the truth. Ripping quotations like this out of the whole corpus of the great Saint's writings, as though they can be properly understood as standalone monuments or whatever, is just crazy.
I suppose one thing that must be said is that to the extent that they interpret their favorite quote-rips correctly (meaning, consistently with the whole of his writings), so that they believe what he truly taught, Protestants reveal - willingly or not - that they share beliefs in common with the Catholic Church. This should not be all that surprising, since their origins are in the Church.
It seems that the best response would be: you believe this thing that St. Augustine taught, but he also taught many other things that you should learn as well. And if you will believe him, then we urge you to return to the Catholic Church - the same Church that taught St. Augustine, by whose authority he believed in the Bible.
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