With the collapse of Rome to the Visigoths, the Christians views were held responsible for the damage. Augustine defended these views with The City of God (Early Christianity, 185.) This city, he wrote, is “…surpassingly glorious, whether we view it as it still lives by faith in this fleeting course of time, and sojourns as a stranger in the midst of the ungodly, or as it shall dwell in the fixed stability of its eternal seat . . .” There is another city of which he also writes: the earthly one. Of it, he says, “though it be mistress of nations, it itself is ruled by its lust of rule.” Throughout the City of God, he traces the journeys of these two cities, from the time they were founded, to h

The differences in the two cities went past common values and into the reverence of the inhabitant’s souls. In the City of God, the search for the truth is no longer, because the people have found God. They in turn live by God’s will and perform God’s work through their religion. In the earthly city there is no set spiritual rules. The authority of the rulers is the final authority. All evil is rooted in the mind and will of each citizen. “Even the wise men in the city of man live according to man, and their only goal has been the goods of their bodies or of the mind or of both; though some of them have reached a knowledge of God, “ they did not glorify him as God or give thanks but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless minds have been darkened. For while professing to be wise””(Early Christianity, 187.) Rome was the exact description of an earthly city in 410 and therefore it is inferences that because of the city’s disobedience from God’s will He struck down the city.

According to Augustine “…from its very start the race of mortal men has been a race condemned.”(Early Christianity, 186) The final division for all eternity comes at the Last Judgment; this will decide the saints (followers of God) from the sinners (victims of their own pride) and determine their souls forever paths. The saints will go to heaven where “no evil at all can touch us, no good will be out of reach; where life is to be one long laud extolling God, who will be all in all; where there will be no weariness to call for rest, no need to call for toil, no place for any energy but praise…”(Early Christianity, 187.) The sinners will spend eternity in hell carrying out the Devil’s work.

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