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    Congruent merit, by making reward contingent solely on Go... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The relationship between God and creatures with respect to merit must be one of congruent merit, not condign merit.

    Congruent merit, by making reward contingent solely on God's liberality rather than the act's intrinsic relation to reward, collapses the distinction between merit and pure gift.

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    • 1.Merit requires a necessary causal link between action and reward; if God can reward arbitrarily, that link is severed.
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    • 2.Gifts are defined by their independence from recipient effort; congruent merit makes reward independent of act quality.
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    • 3.Calling something 'merit' while denying its causal efficacy is conceptually incoherent—it becomes mere labeling.
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    • 1.Merit and gift are not mutually exclusive; a gift can still be meritorious if given *because of* the recipient's qualities.
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    • 2.God's freedom to reward doesn't erase the act's intrinsic relation to reward—the act remains genuinely deserving even if unforced.
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    • 3.The claim conflates metaphysical contingency with conceptual collapse; distinctions can survive even when grounded in divine will.
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