
St. Thomas Aquinas on Suffering and Evil | Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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Is There Will or Free Choice in a Neutral Way?
We don't see will or free choice is simply the power to choose a or b. All creatures, electrons, protons, neutrons, geese, dogs, planets, stars, gases, grub worms, human beings, angels, are in fact, created and ordered to perfection,. So when we do sin or when we do evil, were deficient and diverging from what we were created to be, god. And this is way i hope you remember, of all things, god doesn't give us free choice in a neutral way. We are not created neutral. No human person is creature is. We are actually created towards him, for him - that's why sin is so
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