Reflection Of Augustine Confessions

In Augustine Confessions, the autobiography goes through Augustine struggle with the Christian faith. And the sins that his commits throughout his life. From a young teenager to adult Augustine is truthful with his experiences. Augustine tells his belief in false teaching, sexual immorality, and the desire for God. Augustine’s life is full of different experiences that led him to conversion as an adult. He experienced different types of cultures and ideas that led to and away from God.
When Augustine was younger he hated learning. He hated learning the Greek language and culture but didn’t know why. I evaluate his views based on how he felt as a child to adult. When he was younger he no desire for learning, but as he became older he had mixed views on Greek culture. When he experienced Greek culture as an adult he believed in the ideas of astrology. He agreed with the view of the philosophy of Greek ideas as well. Augustine soon learned how ridiculous the Greek ideology was. He realized,” The ridiculous prophesying’s and blasphemous fullness of astrologers”. He rejected astrology and ideals of the Greeks at age 30 and at the age of 32 he had a conversion to Christ.
After experiencing Greek culture, Augustine goes to Rome. In the start of his youth he no desire for the educational path his father wanted for him. Augustine didn’t want to learn about

Throughout the whole confession, Augustine illustrates and names God in countless ways. For instance, when he was a teenager going through sexual immorality and drifting away from God he prays. He calls God “Him who is the Best”, referring to how God is always with him even in sin. When Augustine becomes an adult, and returns to Christianity he talked about the joy. In his confession, he says that God is “Sweeter than all pleasure, yet not to flesh and blood, brighter than all light”. He also mentions God as his “Helper and