St. Augustine, Enchiridion: On Faith, Hope, and Love (1955). English translation

In this way, if there is no profit, you can not call it evil. There is absolutely no good that there is no benefit of evil. There is something wrong with things, its advantages are flawed or unreadable. Therefore, there is no evil without profit. This leads us to an amazing conclusion: All existence is good for itself. If we say that a defective one is bad, it seems to mean what we are talking about. Evil is good, only good is evil, and besides good is not evil. This is because each entity is an excellent Omni Natural Bonus Test. There is no evil, but only as an evil aspect of the actual entity. Therefore, nothing bad is done besides good things. It sounds silly but we force us to think that the logical connection of discussion is inevitable. At the same time, we must give warnings to avoid predictions of judgment: "For the people who call evil as good and evil it is a curse, they call the darkness the light and the darkness; they are In addition, the Lord himself said, "A bad man brings evil from the treasure of its inner evil." And what is a bad person, but a bad substance Natura is because the person is real? Well, if a person is a good thing, he is an entity, so what is it besides the good of evil? However, when you distinguish between these two concepts, you notice that the bad guys are not bad. Because he is a man. Because he is evil he is not bad. On the contrary, as long as he is a man he is a good man, as long as he is evil it is evil. So, if one says that only one is a bad person, or if it is better to be a bad guy, he will correctly belong to the judgment of the prophet: "Evil and good, evil, good and evil" It is for God. Because humans are created by God. This also means that we admire the shortcomings of this person because he is a bad person. Thus, each entity is valid as long as it is an entity, even if it is a defective entity. As long as there is a defect, it is evil

John Wesley took another approach. The same can be said about Augustine. Last year I participated in the weekly Augustine Reading Group. In a book (The Enchiridion, written in the '400s), Augustine most directly and most clearly handled sin directly. Reading my abstract may motivate someone to read Augustine's original work. Enchiridion (instruction manual) was written after AD 420, so it is one of the latest works of Augustine. You may agree or disagree with Augustine, but after you read him, at least it is more important for John Wesley than the notion of sin that is prevalent today in your view of his sins You must admit. Contemporary American Protestants do not like being Augustine "too Catholic", but they are one of the greatest Christian thinkers anyway - and most of them are grandfathers claimed by reformers, not Wesley is there. We recommend you to read Augustine. Ultimately, we know that the goal-driven life will disappear within 50 years. Augustine's work has history of nearly 1600 years.

Can mature saints refine elements of simple Christian life to simple manuals? Augustine surely tried it. At the age of sixty and in the process of writing the city of God he wrote a handbook on the living of Christians called Enchiridion on faith, hope, and love. Among the 93 main works of Augustine, this small content (Greek is a "handbook") shows his most complete picture of the life before God. The driving force of this manual is Laurentius. He asked Augustine to write a short story about the correct worship of God, the meaning and realization of the main purpose of our life, and the correct foundation of Christian faith. He obviously sought a "handbook": instead of leaving dust on the shelf his hands in his hands!