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    It is not the case that A being whose every aspect is wholly necessary and fully actualized cannot be the subject of genuine contingent acts like creation or providential response.

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    • 1.A necessary being's actions can be contingent relative to creatures even if necessary in themselves—necessity doesn't preclude genuine causation.
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    • 2.Full actuality includes all possible perfections, including the power to freely actualize worlds; this power needn't involve potential or change.
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    • 3.Providence requires responsiveness to human freedom, not temporal reaction; omniscience permits eternally knowing and appropriately responding to all contingencies.
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    • 1.Genuine contingency requires the ability to do otherwise; a necessary being has no such ability in any respect.
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    • 2.Creative acts presuppose a transition from non-actuality to actuality; fully actualized beings cannot undergo such transitions.
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    • 3.Providential response implies temporal reaction to external events; necessary beings cannot be affected by what lies outside themselves.
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