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    It is not the case that Condign merit is impossible between a creature and God.

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    • 1.Scotus argues that God freely ordains (potentia ordinata) a system in which creature acts are accepted as genuinely meritorious by divine covenant.
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    • 2.If God's own decree establishes a proportionate relation between act and reward, the asymmetry of natures does not preclude real merit within that ordained order.
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    • 3.A merit-relation grounded in divine institution rather than intrinsic dignity satisfies the condign requirement without demanding ontological parity between creature and Creator.
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    • 1.Aquinas holds that charity (caritas infusa) elevates human acts to a supernatural order formally proportionate to the beatific end, not merely to creaturely nature.
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    • 2.If the operative principle of the meritorious act is divine charity itself acting in and through the creature, the act's dignity is derived from God's own nature rather than from the creature's finite worth.
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    • 3.The supporting argument's premise that a creature's worth is entirely finite therefore misidentifies the proximate source of condign merit in the graced agent.
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    • 1.Condign merit requires that the lender and borrower share a common scale of dignity (dignitas) by which merit can be compared.
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    • 2.A creature's worth is entirely derived from God, while God's perfection is per se (self-grounded).
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    • 3.There is no common scale on which a creature's merit can be placed alongside God's perfect nature.
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