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    It is not the case that Thomistic concurrentism, as Garrigou-Lagrange acknowledges, entails that God's premotion physically predetermines the creature's act to one determinate outcome, rendering genuine alternatives impossible.

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    • 1.Physical premotion determining the act to one outcome makes the creature's will passive, not actively choosing; this seems incompatible with moral responsibility.
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    • 2.God's knowledge can be non-temporal or possess a different modal status than creature-knowledge, allowing genuine contingency without undercutting omniscience.
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    • 3.Concurrentism conflates sustaining existence with determining action; God can uphold creatures' being without predetermining each specific choice-outcome.
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    • 1.If God is omniscient, He knows all future contingents with certainty; this knowledge requires those events to be determined, not merely foreseen.
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    • 2.Physical premotion preserves divine causality as primary while explaining how creatures act; without it, creation becomes independent of God's sustaining power.
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    • 3.Genuine alternatives require the creature to act contrary to God's will, which contradicts God's absolute sovereignty and necessary existence as first cause.
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