Augustine Answers Pelagius Pt 2

Starting from 1 Tim 1:15-17 Augustine begins to explain and solidify the doctrines of Original sin and Total Depravity.
Listen to this argument.
“There was no reason,” he insists “for the coming of Christ the Lord except to save sinners. Take away diseases, take away wounds, and there is no reason for medicine. If the great Physician came from heaven, a great sick man was lying ill through the whole world. That sick man is the human race” (175, 1). “He who says, ‘I am not a sinner,’ or ‘I was not,’ is ungrateful to the Saviour.
No one of men in that mass of mortals which flows down from Adam, no one at all of men is not sick: no one is healed without the grace of Christ. Why do you ask whether infants are sick from Adam? For they, too, are brought to the church; and, if they cannot run thither on their own feet, they run on the feet of others that they may be healed.
So it is that Augustine did not teach that men have a divine spark of good, but that men from Adam and from conception are depraved sinners, who are dead in sin and trespass.
Augustine thus defending that position and working upon the Holiness and Goodness of God, shows that God alone is Good and Holy and that all of mens righteousnesses are as are as filthy rags before God.