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    God's omnipotence is constrained by His wisdom such that ... — Carmelics
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    God's omnipotence is constrained by His wisdom such that not all of God's volitions become practical volitions

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    • 1.God's wisdom does not permit Him to will certain things or act in certain ways
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    • 2.A will that violates wisdom cannot become a practical (efficacious) volition
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    • 3.God's wisdom holds His volitions in check
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    • 1.Divine simplicity entails that God's will, wisdom, and power are identical in substance, not distinct faculties that can constrain one another.
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    • 2.If wisdom and will are really distinct in God, this introduces composition into the divine nature, violating the classical theistic doctrine of divine simplicity.
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    • 3.Therefore, the model of wisdom 'holding volitions in check' presupposes an incoherent internal division within an absolutely simple being.
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    • 1.Descartes argued that God's omnipotence is absolute and that eternal truths, including those of reason and wisdom, are themselves freely created by divine will.
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    • 2.If God's wisdom is itself a product of His will rather than an independent standard, then wisdom cannot serve as an external constraint on divine volition.
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    • 3.A constraint that is itself willed by the very faculty it is said to constrain provides no genuine limitation on omnipotence, only a contingent self-ordering.
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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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