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| How can “living” be attributed to God if He does not movement? |
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| Knowing and loving which are perfection and remain in God. God cannot move by things, because in Him, He has immanent movement. |
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| In what two ways does man NOT have self-movement (must be moved by another)? |
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a. Man does have self- movement in his intellect.
b. Man does have self- movement in his will.
The intellect and will of man depend on God, who infused intellect and will whenGod created man (Genesis). |
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| Give 3 examples of movements that remain in the agent. |
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| Three examples of movements that remain in the agent are willing, understanding, and sense. |
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| Which one belongs more to perfection of agent—movement that goes out, external to the agent, or movement that is interior? |
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| Movement that is interior which belongs more to perfection of agent |
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| What is a rational appetite? |
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| Love is a rational appetite. |
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| Things that have knowledge tend toward what is apprehended. This is called infinite good (the ultimate end or goal). |
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| What are (two) proper operations of the will? |
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| Good desire and true delight. |
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| What does God will of absolute necessity? |
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| God will of absolute necessity for God’s substance, Essence, Nature. Nothing has forces to compel God to love or love himself. He is God, and God’s will is identified Himself; therefore, God Himself is necessary being. |
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| What does God will of relative necessity? |
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| God’s will is the cause of creatures. God will of relative necessity for creature’s existence and creature’s end. |
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| Does God by one act understand all things and will all things (by the same act?) |
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| Yes, when He acts, He acts of His intellect and His will in unity, completely, simplicity, and perfectly |
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| Why does it seem like God changes His will, when really He doesn’t? |
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| God’s will is changeless, because it is actually one with God’s essence. But a changeless will can changelessly decree changeable things. |
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| Natural evil is non-being in itself; it is not a thing, essence or nature in itself. It is the lack, and it is lack of its presence. Evil has no idea in God. |
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| Moral evil is not against itself, but moral evil is against to God. |
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| Why does it seem like God wills evil? |
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| God never wills evil directly or indirectly; however, “God accidentally wills physical evil such as pain or hardship, because God wills a good with which such hardship is bound up, and which can be attainted only by the enduring of such hardship.” |
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| Does God have free choice? |
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Definition
| Yes, “freedom is perfection and God is all perfect.” |
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| What kinds of things does God freely choose? |
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| God freely choosing is good for creatures. |
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| What are the 5 expressions of God’s will, from our point of view? Describe each. |
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| The 5 expressions of God’s will are: Precept, Prohibition, Counsel, Permission, Operation. (a) Operation: is always the same as the will of good pleasure. (b) Counsel: is not only concerned to attain a greater good, but it also avoids of lesser evil. (c) Prohibition: is different with permission. (d) Operation and Permission: refer to present time, permission being with respect to evil, operation with regard to good. They are concerned that the divine will assigns to rational creatures’ acts. (e) Precept and Counsel: the former of both regard the present, and two latter the future; for the former is of itself the effect of the will; the latter its effect as fulfilled by means of another. |
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| Which three only apply to rational creatures? |
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| Three only apply to rational creatures are Prohibition, Precept, and Counsel. |
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| Is Love the first movement of the will? |
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| Yes, the first movement of the will is love. |
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| How does love come before all good? |
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Definition
| To love a thing is to will the thing and to will good to it. (God wills the existence, essence, and perfection of existing things. Then, God loves these things). |
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| How do we know that God loves all things? |
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| God loves all things because He created them in good. (God’s love is different with man’s love; the love of man is more attraction). God’s love causes the good in things. God is a first cause of all things. |
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| What is the distinction to be made regarding God’s love for things? (Equally or not) |
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| God’s love depends on the perfection of something. Ex: the plant is more perfection than lifeless body (a rock). An animal is more perfection than a plant (a tree). And human being (a man) is more perfection than animal (a dog). |
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| In what way does God’s love make something (like us) to be better than the way He made it (by our nature)? |
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| The way God’s love makes us better than the way that He makes our nature is He created us has intellect and will like Him. |
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