Are some people more spiritual by design?

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how to interpret John 6 where Jesus said no one can come to me unless God wills it. Jesus also knew Judas would betray him so it was Gods will, are some people destined to not come to God?
 
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how to interpret John 6 where Jesus said no one can come to me unless God wills it. Jesus also knew Judas would betray him so it was Gods will, are some people destined to not come to God?
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God gives grace without which no person is saved. Cooperation with grace by each person is required, however, due to the permissive will of God that gives man free will.

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Owing to the infallible decisions laid down by the Church, every orthodox theory on predestination and reprobation must keep within the limits marked out by the following theses:
  • a) At least in the order of execution in time (in ordine executionis) the meritorious works of the predestined are the partial cause of their eternal happiness;
  • b) hell cannot even in the order of intention (in ordine intentionis) have been positively decreed to the damned, even though it is inflicted on them in time as the just punishment of their misdeeds;
  • c) there is absolutely no predestination to sin as a means to eternal damnation.
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Pohle, J. (1911). Predestination. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12378a.htm
 
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