I am so thankful that my classes requires me to read some of the greatest minds of history: Augustine. This is one of the intellectual giants of Christian history. In On Free Choice of the Will, the beginning of the book starts off with a basic question: Is God the cause of evil? Augustine begins by showing that humans are the cause of evil. The reason why evil entered the world because it was a defect, or irrational, or inordinate desire that malfunctioned. Humans chose temporal goods rather than the eternal good. They chose to be enslaved by the temporal rather than mastering the temporal by submitting to the eternal law of God. I am amazed at how Augustine wanted to answer these questions with absolute piety. He writes that we should seek to answer these questions with "God's help and prayer." Amazing! An excellent theologian is one who seeks God's helps and prays!