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Dr. David Bentley Hart on That All Shall Be Saved - Session 1: Introduction and Meditation 1

The Sacramentalists

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The Inevitability of God's Creative Act

All secondary causes in creation are reducible to their first cause, meaning that the consequences of God's creative act are already unfolded within the possibilities inherent in the original act. While certain events may not be causally predetermined by God, no possibility exists within the consequence of God's creative act that was not already present as a potential result in the antecedent work of God. Even if God allows for the possibility of unredeemed natural evil in creation, he freely elected this reality or possibility as an acceptable price for the desired ends, enacting all possibilities that align with an agent's consent or positive will as intrinsic conditions for achieving the end goal.

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