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    Therefore, grace that fulfills divinely-imposed creaturel... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The grace God confers upon a limited elect is utterly gratuitous and supererogatory.

    Therefore, grace that fulfills divinely-imposed creaturely needs is not purely supererogatory but partly responsive to self-generated obligations.

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    • 1.Creatures generate obligations through their own actions and choices, creating genuine debts that exist independently of divine will.
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    • 2.Divine grace responding to creature-generated needs demonstrates moral consistency: God honors the causal structures He created.
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    • 3.If grace were purely supererogatory, God would bear no moral relationship to harms creatures inflict on themselves through sin.
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    • 1.Creatures cannot generate binding obligations on an omnipotent being; only God's nature and commands establish moral requirements.
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    • 2.The distinction between responsive and supererogatory grace collapses if divine grace is eternally foreknown; all appears responsive retroactively.
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    • 3.Creaturely self-generated obligations presume libertarian free will, which conflicts with divine omniscience and causal determinism.
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