Man is said, or assumed, to be able to do that which is wholly beyond the control of God. We are told by G. Norman Bartlett that ‘the tenet of the all-sufficiency of God is in need of radical alterations.’2 Bartlett proposes that we think of God as ‘both infinite and finite at one and the same time; that is to say He is infinite with respect to one aspect of His nature and finite speaks with respect to another.’3 John Thomas speaks of the self-limitation of God in the interest of the freedom