Do you ever ask yourself about things pertaining to existence and salvation? Questions like: what is life’s purpose and meaning? What is truth, and what is falsehood? Sometimes the answers to these questions take a lifetime here on earth to be revealed, other times they are found quickly and for some people they go unanswered. However, the solutions are not always the same. The final question then becomes is there a true answer to these questions? Fourth century Christian theologian and philosopher, Saint Augustine, would respond saying yes there is one truth. In his book, The Confessions, Augustine shares his own journey in finding salvation. For Augustine God is existence and one “would not be at all, were [God] not in him” (15). He makes it clear that God is life, and “[He] has made us and draws us to himself, and our heart is unquiet until it rests in [him]” (14). He points out that humans cannot come to God themselves instead He must help bring people to Him. Truth and falsehood are simple, “[God is] truth itself” (16). This all meaning that God is everything good, he is truth and salvation. Although Augustine comes out with questions and backward answers pertaining to God and life itself, his main goal is to show his readers who God is, and what His grace looks like …show more content…
He still has not found the truth and is not at rest with God. Augustine makes it a point to show that part of reason of separating from Manicheism was due to science. Science proved his former beliefs wrong, but he claims that “unhappy is anyone who knows it all but does not know [God], whereas one who knows [God] is blessed, even if ignorant of all these” (79). Augustine believes that it is important for one to have science to rid of foolish ideas, but only so far as it leads one closer to God. Overall faith in God is of highest importance and even those who don't have much knowledge but have spiritual truth are better off than the