Augustine's Conception Of Sin In The Confessions

I chose the second topic for my essay, and I am gone to discuss how Augustine’s conception of sin as it is developed in The Confessions, and also talk about how does the conception of sin derive from a dualistic conception of the universe, in which body and spirit, as well as the earthly and heavenly realms, are mainly differentiated. As the meaning in religious, sin always means the act that violates God’s will. And also sometimes sin could be viewed as a violation of the relationship between God and individual human being.
In book one of The Confessions, Augustine starts to think about what makes human beings sin and also he seeks the original sin. “For in your sight no man is free from sin, not even a child who has lived only one day on earth.” (27) Normally, we believe that the infants or the little babies are innocent since they are naïve, and the sins are generated with the processes of growing up; however, Augustine believes that babies are not innocent, neither. This idea means that Augustine believes that no one is innocent and no one can escape from sin, no matter how is he or she outstanding or bad is, and everyone needs try to find out God’s mercy in some ways.
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When he analysis why he did a shenanigan to stole the pears in his teenage, he could not find out any real reason to explain how he did so and no conclusion about why he did so. But the sin here is the evil. “The evil in me was foul, but I loved it”, and “My soul was vicious and broke away from your safe keeping to seek its own destruction, looking for no profit in disgrace but only for the disgrace itself.” (47-48) Augustine believes that the sin is breaking the law of God since the God is here to control human and to keep human away from flounder around and do some sorts of negative things. Augustine believes that human always lose to control he or she and make more