On page 43 of Boethius, he speaks of all men trying to
attain true happiness. He claims that there is an implanted desire for true
good, “even though foolish error draws them toward false goods.” This idea is
one that I had when we were reading Confessions.
We talked about the idea of sin being missing the mark in
archery. The idea came to me that as fallen, corrupt men, we try to shoot for
the “target,” but we are so corrupt that when we are trying to do what is good,
or hit the target, we miss because we aren’t actually aiming for the right
target. We may want to do perfect good, but what we think of as good is
actually not even good. Or, it is better said by Boethius as “foolish error
draws them towards false goods.”
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