ABSTRACT
This chapter considers those problems that have been said to arise from the conjunction of the necessary and transfinite nature of God and the existence of a created, merely possible, and finite world, and for which the solutions proposed consider God to be in some respects temporal, limited in power and knowledge, contingent, and thus finite. In its original form, the principle of sufficient reason was taken to mean that only necessary reasons can be sufficient ones, in which case all reality would exist or happen necessarily and all reasoning about it could be logically necessary. Therefore, it seems unless there remains a spot deep within the finite person–a last enclave of good within himself that he can never eliminate and which, in one way or another, God can eventually reach–then God's power over created persons is limited and his intentions can be permanently frustrated.
