His critique is in effect internal, drawing upon the logic of Christian thought itself to suggest that suicide is not contrary to the laws of nature, of reason, or of God.
William Rowe thinks some plausible understanding of God's justificatory reason for allowing the evil should be detectable, but that there are cases of evil that are altogether gratuitous.
Indeed, when it comes to the creation of the world, the "sufficient reason" for God's choice of this world is that this world is the "best" of all possible worlds; in other words, in this case the Principle of Sufficient Reason is essentially the Principle of the Best.
"This man," said Bernard, "presumes to be able to comprehend by human reason the entirety of God".
PAYOFF "I figured $1,000 was nothing to lose if for some strange reason the word of God, in this case 'Godspell,' did not survive this Broadway run".
"The cathedral in The Spire is likewise a near-impossible building … the spire is also beyond reason – a glorification of God that leaves the earthly behind".
(To say that one can attain, by reason, some knowledge of God is not to say that everyone can do this).
This may have provided a reason to speak of God, in a kind of atemporal present tense, as creating the universe, and that in turn may have suggested that one should think of God as a causa secundum esse.
Whatever the reason, the grace of God is life coming full circle.
