GOD's purpose was to be known. GOD gave man free will and mastery of himself, and He from His very authority in creation permitted these gifts to be enjoyed. This gift of free will allowed man to contingently either for obedience or resistance. It is this free will that is the basis for responsibility for the reward neither of good nor of evil could be paid to the man who should be found to have been either good or evil through necessity and not choice. This free will given to man enabled him to be a rational being, capable of intelligence and knowledge, yet still restrained within the bounds of rational liberty and subject to HIM Who had subjected all things unto HIM.
