In this paper, we will show how the writing of Augustine's confessions helped Augustine to find and understand himself as interrelated to God. We will focus on one episode, that being the episode in book two where Augustine is a 16 year trouble maker and decides to steal some pears off a tree. Not because he is hungry, but because he wants to be bad, and feel this through theft. This leads to many deep theological and philosophical questions like: Can we know evil if we do not experience it our self? How do we know what bad is, how it feels, what it does to our soul, if we do not partake in a bad act? And then, does a confession remove this evil, or is it always there though our life, as part of our character, part of who we are? In this paper, we will use the Confessions from the Oxford World's Classics, which was translated by Henry Chadwick.
