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    It is not the case that A contradictory state of affairs cannot become actualized for good things

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    Reasons For

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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