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S1E35 - Predestination | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.

Aquinas 101 - Course 3: God and Creation

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The Mystery of God's Love for Creatures

If God is the first principle of all grace we receive from all eternity and predestines us to himself by election then all who are saved have no one to praise for the gift of grace other than God. Fourth if God truly offers grace to all human beings but also allows human beings to resist and eventually at times to refuse his grace definitively then God is not the author or cause of the human abandonment of God. But lastly if there are those who refuse the offer of grace from God and persist in this refusal this is due to the decision of the creature that God respects from all eternity.

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