Predestination and Human Freedom: A Catholic Approach | Prof. W. Matthews Grant (duplicate)
The Thomistic Institute
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God Gives Antecedent Grace
On this modela, god's causing my act is not a prior factor over which i have no control. And on this model, i could do otherwise. If you look right under the the big re there, i have counterfactual power over god's causingMy act,. Since i could have done otherwise, all prior conditions remainin the same and had i done otherwise, god's act of causing my act would not have occurred. The antecedent sufficient grace that god gives leaves open the possibility that a person not do a. All people therefore have the ability necessary for genuine freedom to perform a and to be blameworthy if they don't.
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