St. Thomas Aquinas on Suffering and Evil | Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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God Doesn't Need to Create You
God is the meda of cause and effect. He's not actively making electrons revolve around protons and neutrons. Rather, as formal crause, he's created all things for their own purposes. And god didn't need to create you. Sometimes people think what god needed us, created us so that he could love us and so that we could adore him. All right? Yes, we're created to love him, but that's our purpose. And because there's good in loving him, ats a later conversation, perhaps.
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