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    It is not the case that The relationship between God and creatures with respect to merit must be one of congruent merit, not condign merit.

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    • 1.Aquinas argues in ST I-II q.114 that grace elevates human acts to a supernatural order genuinely proportionate to eternal life as their end.
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    • 2.If grace renders human merit intrinsically ordered to beatitude, the incommensurability between creature and God is overcome within the economy of salvation.
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    • 3.Therefore condign merit, properly understood as grace-elevated merit, does not require natural commensurability between creature and God.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Congruent merit, by making reward contingent solely on God's liberality rather than the act's intrinsic relation to reward, collapses the distinction between merit and pure gift.
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    • 2.If God is not in any sense obligated by the agent's meritorious act, the concept of merit loses its normative content and becomes indistinguishable from arbitrary divine favor.
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    • 1.Condign merit requires commensurability between the merits of giver and receiver.
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    • 2.No creature can be commensurable with God in merit.
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    • 3.Congruent merit does not require the giver to reward the agent, only that the act provides sufficient cause for reward.
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