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    It is not the case that God does not give graces by particular volitions

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.God's omniscience includes perfect foreknowledge of how free creatures will respond to any given grace.
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    • 2.A grace can be genuinely offered by a particular divine volition and yet remain inefficacious due to free creaturely rejection, not divine insufficiency.
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    • 3.Molinism's scientia media demonstrates that particular divine volitions are compatible with creaturely freedom and consequent inefficacy of grace.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Aquinas holds that God's providence operates through secondary causes, meaning particular volitions can work through contingent creaturely responses.
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    • 2.If God wills a particular grace that a creature freely resists, the inefficacy tracks creaturely deficiency, not the absence of a particular divine volition.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.There are graces that are inefficacious
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    • 2.If God gave graces by particular volitions, there would be no inefficacious graces
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