 Augustine would come to understand how evil came to be and can coexist in the world with a good, all-powerful God. God created all things good, but the evil, the loss of the good, has come about through the free choices of angels and human beings who rebelled against him. Cutting themselves off from the source of all that is good, they caused their own goodness to be diminished. Augustine declares, I asked what iniquity really is, and I found it was no substantial thing, but rather a warping of the will, stubbornly turning away from you, oh God, who are the summit of being, and turning instead to the lowest things, or as he describes it in other places, it is a disordered love.