176: Divine Simplicity & William Lane Craig W/ Fr. Gregory Pine
Pints With Aquinas
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Is God's Love a Good Thing?
In the ordinary dispensation, we love something because it is lovable. But in the dispensation of god's generos a, he loves because he loves, right? So he makes the thing to be lovable. His love goes before our being lovable. We know that god has chosen to create us. He has willed us from all time. All things are transparent to his gaze,. precisely because he is good. Our relationship with him hinges upon something more significant than our lovableness. It hinges upon his love. This is far better than anything or which we could ask or imagine as an alternative. And we have the assurance that he will never cease to be so.
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