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    If creatures possess genuine participated being, then God... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→God's giving is better described as lending than as giving in the translative sense.

    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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    • 1.Creatures exercise causal powers that produce real effects in the world independent of constant divine micromanagement.
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    • 2.A genuine gift involves relinquishing control; perpetual reserve contradicts the meaning of authentic generosity.
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    • 3.Participated being entails ontological stability—creatures possess their own being, not borrowed appearance.
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    • 1.God's omniscience requires foreknowledge of all creature choices, making autonomous dominion metaphysically impossible.
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    • 2.Being itself remains God's exclusive possession; participation means dependence, not genuine dominion transfer.
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    • 3.Even if creatures possess real causal power, this doesn't require dominion transfer—only delegated agency.
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