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    Christians are required to love even wicked people in thi... — Carmelics
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    Christians are required to love even wicked people in this life.

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    • 1.We have no way of knowing in this life who is, and who is not, an object of God's eternal hatred.
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    • 2.We know not but that God loves them.
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    • 1.Aquinas distinguishes between loving a person's nature qua creature and approving of their will, permitting hatred of the latter in the wicked.
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    • 2.The command to love enemies applies to personal injury, not to the moral condemnation of those who actively oppose divine order.
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    • 1.Epistemic uncertainty about God's disposition toward a person does not logically entail an obligation to adopt a positive disposition toward them.
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    • 2.Augustine argues that ordered love (ordo amoris) requires proportioning affection to the moral worth of its object, not treating all persons as equally lovable.
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    It would be unfair, however, to imply that all Augustinians, as classified above, accept Augustine’s own understanding of an eternal torture chamber. For many Augustinians view the agony of hell as essentially psychological and spiritual in nature, consisting of the knowledge that every possibility for joy and happiness has been lost forever. Hell, as they see it, is thus a condition in which self-loathing, hatred of others, hopelessness, and infinite despair consumes the soul like a metaphorical fire. Still, virtually all Augustinians agree with Jonathan Edwards concerning this: whatever the ...

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