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Contra Universalism (and Is This the Best of All Possible Worlds?)

Sed Contra: A Podcast of Catholic Theology

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Is God Not God Unless All Are Saved?

"I don't think it's necessary that God creates absolutely not necessary," says Bentley Hart. "When God creates, and when God creates with a certain end in mind, which he freely chooses,. then God owes it to himself to pick the universe that's most fitting to the most fitting for the end which he himself has really chosen." The voluntary or the non-necessity of this being the best of all possible worlds consequently doesn't come from this universe rather than that,' adds Hart.

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