18. GOD AND FREE WILL

There is an old argument: if God is all-powerful, why did He not force all persons to His will. This ignores the limited Free Will granted to human beings, which is the whole basis of Ethics. God gives us every opportunity of knowing and understanding things, but He does not force us, for that would be against the 'whole plan' on which our present life is constituted. Even though God's signs are everywhere in Nature and in men's own conscience, yet in addition God has sent human Messengers to different group of People to call their attention to the 'Good' and turn them away from 'Evil'. So one is not right in saying that God has abandoned them or that He does care for them. His Divine Grace always invites their will to choose the right course. While some people accept the guidance of the Divine Grace, others so surrender themselves to Evil that it must necessarily follow that Evil obtains a grip over them.