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    It is not the case that Therefore condign merit, properly understood as grace-elevated merit, does not require natural commensurability between creature and God.

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    • 1.If grace supplies what merit lacks, calling it 'merit' conflates two distinct concepts and obscures rather than clarifies the theological relationship.
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    • 2.Claiming grace enables incommensurable acts to become meritorious merely relocates the problem—grace itself requires explanation for its differential application.
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    • 3.True commensurability cannot be bypassed by appeal to divine economy; proportionality is a logical requirement for merit, not merely a human category.
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    • 1.Grace fundamentally transforms the agent's capacity, making finite acts genuinely valuable before infinite goodness without requiring natural equivalence.
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    • 2.Merit language requires only proportional reward-relationship within a grace-structured economy, not metaphysical commensurability between orders of being.
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    • 3.Denying grace-elevated merit either makes creaturely acts worthless or implies creatures naturally deserve divine reward—both theologically problematic.
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