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    God does not save all men because doing so would require ... — Carmelics
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    God does not save all men because doing so would require ways of willing that are unwise

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    • 1.God is omnipotent and can bring about whatever He wants to bring about
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    • 2.God's will is the love He bears for His own attributes
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    • 3.God cannot, by a practical will, will anything or act in any way that is not wise
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    • 1.Leibniz argues in Theodicy that God selects the best possible world, and a world with universal salvation is plausibly better than one with eternal damnation for any souls.
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    • 2.If God's will is defined by love of His own attributes, and divine goodness is maximally expressed in universal reconciliation, then saving all men would align with rather than violate divine wisdom.
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    • 3.Origen and later Apokatastasis theologians contend that eternal separation from God contradicts divine omnipotence by positing a realm permanently outside God's redemptive reach.
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    • 1.God's wisdom is not constrained by creaturely categories of 'wise' and 'unwise' means, as Duns Scotus argues God's will is the supreme standard of rationality itself.
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    • 2.If omnipotence entails God can bring about any state of affairs, then universal salvation cannot be ruled out by appeals to instrumental constraints on divine willing.
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    Saving all men would require manners of willing that are unwise78%ECT says that God will not save everyone75%If the above is true, then God can save everyone74%If the above is true, God will save everyone73%

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    If God wants to save all men, something must prevent Him from doing what He wants to do. In the “Troisième Eclaircissement” to TNG, Malebranche says that since God is omnipotent, He can bring about whatever He wants to bring about. But because His will is “the love He bears for His own attributes,” He cannot, by a “practical” will,[18] will anything or will in any way that is not wise: “The wisdom of God renders Him impotent in this sense that it does not permit him to will certain things, or
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