Book Two/ Chapter 1-2/esp., sec. 2-7–Humans and not God are to be blamed for directing the will improperly.
you should write a pro or con essay using any two of the following premises
1. All and only good things come from God–Assertion (from previous argument)
sec 5 2. To be good, a man must act rightly–F
3. All actions proceed from a movement of the human will–A
4. All good actions must be the result of a proper or right movement of the will–2,3
5. The proper movement of the will makes people good–2,4
6. [The proper movement of any process is action according to its intended purpose]–A
7. [The fulfillment of an intended purpose is functionally good according to the process]–F
8. God’s intent is that the human will move properly–1,5,6,7,
sec 7 9. In God’s Plan the good people are rewarded and the evil are punished–A
10. [Those who move the will improperly are not acting according to God’s Plan]–7,8,9
11. God is perfectly just–F
12. [To be just is to have a single rule or procedure and to treat like cases similarly]–F
13. The only way God could reward the good and punish the bad is if there were a single rule or procedure to treat like cases similarly–9-12
14. [The ultimate rule or procedure for right action is “movement in the direction of God’s Plan”]–F
sec 6 15. It would be impossible for God to reward or punish mankind were there no human will that could freely move–8, 10, 13, 14
16. [To be able to freely move the will means that humans can go away from God]-F
sec 5 17. When humans move the will away from God they are not following God’s intent–1, 7, 8, 16