Translations:Original sin/7/en

Bad things happen to good people because all people are bad by nature, Augustine argued, and the only chance for them to overcome this natural wickedness is to access God’s grace through the Church. As Augustine wrote, “No one will be good who was not ﬁrst of all wicked.”^[1]

↑ Augustine, City of God 15.1, in Schaff, Philip, ed., A Select Library of Nicene and PostNicene Fathers of the Christian Church, 1st ser. (Reprint. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1979–80), 2:285.

[1] Augustine, City of God 15.1, in Schaff, Philip, ed., A Select Library of Nicene and PostNicene Fathers of the Christian Church, 1st ser. (Reprint. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1979–80), 2:285.

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