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Augustine focuses mainly on the Christian sovereign God of grace as well as the sovereign grace of God. This book truly is a “confession” of a man who realizes the filth of the human race and who knows what a disgrace we are to our creator. These first three books of Augustine’s confessions delve heavily into the motives of human behavior especially in infancy. He is talking to God and praising him for the abundant grace of which he does not deserve, but receives without question upon request. He also talks briefly on the omnipotence of God and brings up the question of the actual presence of God in things. Whether or not God saturates all things with his presence or if he just fills them according to size. His analyzing of human action brings one to think that he is also a psychologist on top of the other things. It seems that he was not trying to change Christianity as much as he was attempting to bring light to and defend some main is