MONOTHEISM AND HUMAN BEINGS

~ 32 ~ beings can also achieve perfection if they entrust themselves entirely to God. The universe owes its unfailing precision to the fact that it works in complete consonance with God’s plans. Human beings can likewise achieve moral exactitude in their affairs by becoming ethically attuned to the divine scheme of things, for, after all, what is monotheism but the fountainhead of all good: all evil in the world stems from hampering the prevalence of monotheism in the affairs of the world. Of the many arguments put forward in modern times against the existence of God, one of the most important is what its advocates call ‘the problem of evil.’ They claim that there are such evils in the universe as make it impossible to believe that it was fashioned by a master designer. It has been argued, in this context, that the force of gravity is far in excess of actual need and that, as a consequence, one runs the risk, for example, of breaking one’s leg should one fall from a height of just a few metres. Had this force been less - so the argument goes – this would