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God does not love all created persons equally. — Carmelics

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God does not love all created persons equally.

Afterlife & Death Eternal Conscious Torment

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1.If God has deep attachments with some created persons, it follows that he does not love all of them equally.
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2.Being a perfect being, God would have loves of the deepest kind.
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1.Classical theism (Aquinas, Summa Theologiae I.20.3) holds that God loves all things insofar as they exist, with no privation of being excluded from divine love.
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2.If God's love is identified with his will that beings exist and flourish, then differential attachments among persons do not entail unequal foundational love.
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1.The inference from 'deep attachment to some' to 'unequal love for all' conflates preferential love (amor amicitiae) with universal benevolence, which Aquinas distinguishes as compatible.
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2.A perfect being can exhibit special relational bonds while sustaining a universal, unconditional willing of the good for every created person without logical contradiction.
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Let theism in general be the belief that a supremely powerful, supremely wise, and supremely good (loving, just, merciful) personal being exists as the Creator of the universe. Christian theism is, of course, more specific than that, and Christian theists typically make the following two-fold assumption: first, that the highest possible good for created persons (true blessedness, if you will) requires that they enter into a proper relationship (or even a kind of union) with their Creator, and second, that a complete severance from the divine nature, without even an implicit experience of God (...

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