Then he reads the works of the Platonists, and he sees Christ reflected in them. He is finally convinced that astrology is false, after he hears the story of a rich man and a beggar born at exactly the same moment, so that their horoscopes must be the same. He begins to understand that sin results from the corruption of the human will. Nebridius has already proposed a convincing argument against the dualist mythology of the Manichees: If God can be harmed by evil, then God is not all-powerful, which is absurd if God cannot be harmed by evil, why is there any need for God to fight evil? But Augustine is still troubled by the origin of evil, which he cannot comprehend because he still does not comprehend Christ. He still conceives of God as a kind of matter, like air or water, filling the spaces of the universe. Augustine describes his attempts to think about the nature of God.
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