The relationship of the human will to God’s is a puzzle upon which theologians have expended a great deal of labor. With all due respect for that labor, I’ve never felt very satisfied with the attempt to make it comprehensible to human reason. Among other things, it raises the problem of free will, which I think is humanly insoluble. While browsing in Charles Williams’ All Hallows’ Eve the other day after mentioning it here, I came upon the following sentence, which refers to someone who has just been given a task that is clearly God’s will for her:
The act was to be hardly hers, yet without her it could not be.
I plan to hold on to this. It is as much as I need to know on the subject, and perhaps as much as I can know.
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