I have excluded this type of 'solution' quite deliberately, because it seems to me that, whatever its virtues 'in the abstract', it is not a type of solution open to Rational Theists. If we are Rational, as distinct from Supra-rational, Theists, we are committed to the view that the qualities of goodness, power, etc., ascribed to God are to be interpreted in their literal significance; i.e. in the meanings these qualities have for our experience. But this implies that the workings of the Divine Mind are, in principle, intelligible to the human mind. And to admit this is surely to deny one's self any right to plead man's impotence to fathom the 'inscrutable purposes' of God against those who argue that there are facts of experience incompatible with the purpose of a Creator who is perfect in goodness and power in the literal signification of these terms.