ine himself had adhered to before converting to Christianity. The Manicheans believed in the concept of "absolute dualism"-the belief that a "supreme evil" god existed which was as powerful as the good god and men are made to do evil acts by this supreme evil being. Augustine, after embracing Christianity, sought to disprove the Manichaean notion of a supreme evil principle, by holding that evil is not a material or spiritual substance and that all natures are good because their existence is from God. He fur
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