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    It is not the case that God's giving is better described as lending than as giving in the translative sense.

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    • 1.Aquinas holds that God's creative act genuinely establishes real relations and properties in creatures, granting them a participated but authentic ownership (ST I, q.44).
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    • 2.If creatures possess genuine participated being, then God's giving instantiates a real transfer of a kind of dominion, not merely a loan held in perpetual reserve.
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    • 3.Describing divine giving as lending obscures the ontological dignity of creaturely existence by reducing creatures to mere temporary custodians with no authentic stake in what they receive.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Lending presupposes a temporal interval between giving and return, but God's eternity collapses the distinction between bestowal and retrieval into a single act.
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    • 2.A metaphor that requires temporal succession is categorically inapplicable to an eternal, timeless agent, making 'lending' more misleading than 'giving'.
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    • 1.Translative giving involves the giver's complete surrender of every connection to the gift.
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    • 2.God's giving is communicative, meaning God does not surrender the gift.
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    • 3.All that God gives to creation will ultimately return to God.
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