After re-reading my last post and taking in some more wisdom from class discussions this week, I decided that I should probably make an addendum to what I previously wrote. That is, I didn’t mean to imply in my post on free will that humans can freely do all things if they just try hard enough. Human effort alone is not sufficient. God’s grace is always necessary. That being said, it is our task to seek God’s grace and to be open to that grace as much as possible so that our will can more fully be aligned to the will of God and that our actions towards good might continually assist our growth in virtue. The more we seek God’s grace and allow it to transform us, the more free our will becomes and the more our entire being is directed toward what is good and true. We just can’t forget that we have some part to play here, some responsibility for our actions. We can’t just do whatever we want and then blame God for not giving us the grace to do good. We have to turn towards what is good and work with God’s grace to do good.
