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    A contradictory state of affairs cannot become actualized... — Carmelics
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    A contradictory state of affairs cannot become actualized for good things

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    • 1.Good things exist because God wills them to exist
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    • 2.God's will as efficient cause has such intensity that what God wills to be cannot not be
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    • 3.What God does not will to be cannot be
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    • 1.God's omnipotence, as Aquinas argues, extends to all logically possible states, including the restoration of lost virginity or past events.
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    • 2.If God can actualize the undoing of past contingent facts, then the modal boundary between 'what was' and 'what cannot be' collapses for good things.
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    • 3.Therefore contradictory states regarding good things—such as a thing both having occurred and not having occurred—become candidates for divine actualization.
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    • 1.Scotus's doctrine of synchronic contingency holds that God's will is simultaneously able to will otherwise at any moment of its willing.
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    • 2.If divine will retains real alternate possibilities even while actualizing a good thing, then the good thing's existence is never modally sealed against contradiction.
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    • 3.The intensity of divine efficient causation cannot by itself foreclose the logical space of contradictory alternatives without collapsing divine freedom into necessitarianism.
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    In another passage (608D–610D), Damian appeals to the efficacy of God’s will to argue that a contradictory state of affairs cannot become actualized. Here, different considerations apply to the good and the evil (cf. Section 3). The good things are because God wills them to be. God’s will as the efficient cause of the being of beings has such intensity that what he wills to be, cannot not be, and what he does not will to be, cannot be. Good things, then, are unequivocally in the case that they
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