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Saint Augustine, during his struggle for a faith in which God was the absolute reference point for everything else in the world, came to many conclusions that helped shape Western Christianity into the institution it has become today. After Augustine’s moment of conversion, he believed unquestioningly in his faith of a God that was intangible. “I wanted to be just as certain about things which I could see as I was certain that seven and ten make three” (Warner 116). The most apparent difference between Augustine and earlier thinkers such as Kong Zi and Socrates is that the early thinkers believed the key to understanding was through the pursuit of knowledge both within oneself and by means of social interaction. Augustine referred to God as responsible for everything, good and bad, that existed in the world. He believed that knowledge, understanding, and happiness could be attained only after one had accepted God with absolute certainty.
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