Aquinas holds that God's final causality orders all things to the Good; an eternally rebellious will permanently outside that teleological order cannot be a product of divine creative renewal.

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Aquinas: Thomas Aquinas was a medieval Italian priest and philosopher (1225-1274) who became one of the most influential thinkers in Western history. He attempted to show that Christian faith and human reason are compatible, arguing that we can use logic and observation to understand God and the natural world. His ideas deeply shaped Catholic theology and continue to influence how religious and secular institutions think about ethics, knowledge, and the relationship between science and belief.
Divine creative renewal(as the process through which God maintains creation): The ongoing act of God continuously creating or sustaining something in existence, rather than creating it once and abandoning it.
Final causality(as used in metaphysics and theology): The idea that something exists because of a goal or purpose—like how a knife exists for the purpose of cutting. In this case, it means God created things with a specific end goal in mind.
Teleological order(as the divine arrangement of things toward the Good)

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