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Humanity by Augustine In Augustine?s Confessions he describes the trials and tribulations that took place in his life on his journey to Christianity. He writes now years later, able to see the mistakes and errors he made as an adolescent and throughout his life. His writings are a way to relate him to all humans and their way of thinking. He stresses that God is the creator of all, in which He installed the choice of free will into every human so that they can chose what to do with their lives. In return we have sin. In which, many people choose to sin for no other reason than the mere fact that they want to. Augustine begins with questions about the nature of his mind. He tries to answer these through the consideration of material things, the soul, and reason itself. He goes through a reasonable chain of thought to deliberate his conclusions. Augustine stresses the idea that humans owe their lives to God. He states ?Yet it was not my mother or my nurses who stored their breasts for me: it was Yourself, using them?set by You at every level of creation?(1133). He believed that God brought being into this world out of nothing, so that all things owe their existence to God. Humans tend to forget that it was God that cre