... the Manichees wondered, could a good and omnipotent God have created evil? Manichees concluded that God was not omnipotent and that evil was a separate force from God. Thus, sin was not the fault of the sinner, but rather of the evil itself. Augustine continued with the Manichee faith for nine years of his life. According to his Confessions; however, he did not lead a satisfied life as a Manichee. "On the one ... Book 5, Chapter 7). While studying in Carthage, Augustine happened upon Hortensius by Cicero which encouraged him to lead a more philosophical life. "I began to compare some of ...

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... god and a mortal" (Symp. 202E) which seems to portray the same idea of an intermediate being that the Christian authors attempted to find with the word pneuma. Roman authors encountered a problem similar to that of the evangelists because the Roman vocabulary did not have an equivalent for the Greek daimon. Cicero employed lares (deified ancestors) for daimones and Apuleius tried genius (a ... Hesiod writes about the five successive races of humankind: the golden, the silver, the bronze, the heroic, and the iron. He states that the golden race lives on in the form of "benevolent daemons...

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