Evil is not a force, in itself, evil is the absence of good, evil does not come from a devil, or darkness or an evil deity. Augustine goes on a spiritual and metaphysical journey throughout the confessions. His beliefs evolve as travels to different places. He adopts several philosophies, before coming back to Christianity, like all of humanity must do according to himself. His ideas about evil similarly, follow this progression, Augustine disregards the Bible as being unsophisticated, and searches for a source of evil elsewhere. Manicheism was a religion of prominence when Augustine was searching for an explanation. This is one the philosophies or religions that Augustine was drawn to. Manicheism, believed in a duality of reality, with good
