In “On the Free Choice of the Will,” Augustine indicates the importance of his beliefs and opinions about human nature and God. He has a high opinion of God and centralizes his thoughts of goodness with the concept of being/form (God); it also provides a description of how God's justice can be clearly interpreted through the wicked actions of the world. One of the biggest and most difficult problems people face is the problem of doing evil. If God is immutable, eternal, and omnipotent, then why do people do evil? Augustine tries to solve the problem by examining the “source of evil” and “what is evil”. Explore ways in which to live a happy life and a life free from evil by having a perfectly ordered soul - a life willed by the virtues - through free will. In an attempt to discover why evil exists, Augustine explores how people sin with excessive desire and free will as their driving force. It lists the things that one must possess to sin and live happily – goods of the will and temporal goods – that is, one cannot sin without temporal goods, disordered desire and free will. Likewise, one cannot live a happy life without the goods of the will and free will. The opening question in “On the Free Choice of the Will” is “Is not God the cause of evil?” (Augustine, 1). Evodius examines this question as opposed to “what is the cause of all evil?” because God is the creator of people, from which sin arises. From the premise, which states that: 1) God created everything; 2) God admits the existence of evil, men do evil and sin, we can conclude that "God is the cause of all evil" because he created everything and everything that has form comes from God:..... . half of paper ...harming temporal goods (such as our body, health, beauty and so on) compared to the goods of the will (such as knowledge and virtue) – disordered desire'. The way we suffer these acts is by our own free will. Because we do not allow our mind to control the irrational parts of our soul and perceive the eternal truths/form/being/God, we sin; we allow our minds to be slaves to disordered desire. In other words, Augustine argues that we often turn away from eternal truths, or ethical truths, toward nonbeing that is evil because of temporal things. He says that evil lies in intentions and not in actions because evil is done out of love for temporal goods; we mistakenly identify the goods of the will (virtue) with temporal goods (wealth, honors, pleasures, physical pleasures and everything that a person cannot acquire or have simply by wanting)).