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    The present world is intended for human beings destined t... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The present world could not have been created from eternity under God's ordained power.

    The present world is intended for human beings destined to enjoy eternal happiness in both soul and body.

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    Godfrey comments that this objection can also be formulated more forcefully in terms of human souls, i.e., the actual infinity of human souls that would have resulted from an eternal world eternally populated by human beings with immortal souls. Aquinas had considered this form of the objection in his De aeternitate mundi, and had noted that it has not yet been demonstrated that God could not produce an actual infinity of spiritual beings. Godfrey does not adopt this solution, presumably because

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