St. Augustine Confessions Research Paper

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In Confessions St. Augustine wrote about many things in the world that he saw sinful. Confessions is autobiographical, and throughout the book Augustine changes his views on the world itself. During the beginning of the book Augustine was not a Christian. It is in a later part of the book that you see his conversion to Christianity. After his conversion he believes that his previous behavior is unacceptable and sinful. When he completely converted to Christianity he viewed everything that he put before God as a sinful act. Augustine wanted God to be put before everything. In book one though Augustine asks himself an important question that later he intends to answer. This question basically reads as how can we look for something if we don't know exactly what we're looking for? This means that he does not know who or what God is, and he does not have the ability to find Christianity until he figures it out. Early in his childhood though Augustine …show more content…
One parent a religious follower of God, and the other a non-believer. This is not the only place he had troubles. School was a part of his life that Augustine severely disliked. As he left infancy and went on to boy hood his experiences in life did not get any better. Augustine says in book one of Confessions that in school he did not learn the lessons that he was required to learn to the satisfaction of his teachers. As a result he was beat. Trying to get out of these studies is not a good thing for Augustine to do. Looking back on this part in his life he sees that it went against God, and that it was sinful. Later on in this book Augustine talks about how he preferred the readings of Virgil to that of reading, writing, and arithmetic. This is also a sinful act that cannot be overlooked. Augustine did not see it sinful at this stage in his life, but after the conversion to Christianity he sees where he went wrong in his

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