LET’S SEE MORE EXAMPLES OF “Solid food Theology:”
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Free Will
explains;
“God is the author of
all causes and effects, but is not the author of sin, because an action ceases to be sin if God wills it to happen. Still God is the
cause of sin.
God’s omnipotent providence exercises
a complete and perfect control over all events that happen, or will happen, in the universe.”
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA Divine Providence
explains;
His wisdom He so
orders all events within the universe that the end for which it was created may be
realized.
God preserves the universe in being;
He acts in and with every creature in each and all its activities.
He directs all,
even evil and sin itself, to the final end for which the universe was created.
Evil He converts into good (Genesis 1:20; cf. Psalm 90:10); and
suffering He uses as an instrument whereby to train men up as a father traineth up his children (Deuteronomy 8:1-6; Psalm 65:2-10;
Evil, therefore, ministers to God’s design (St. Gregory the Great, op. cit., VI, xxxii in “P.L.”
That end is that
all creatures should manifest the glory of God, and
eternal happiness in God.
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Divine Providence
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CCC 313; St.Thomas More, shortly before his martyrdom, consoled his daughter:
“Nothing can come but that that God wills. And I make me very sure that whatsoever that be, seem it never so bad in sight,
it shall indeed be the best.” 182
As we see above according to “Solid food Theology:”
Nothing can come but that that God wills, God acts in and with every creature in each and all its activities and He directs all,
even evil and sin itself, to the final end for which the universe was created.
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For Augustine says (De Civ. Dei v, 1) that the "Divine will or power is
called fate."
But the Divine will or power is not in creatures, but in God. Therefore fate is
not in creatures but
in God.
The Divine will is
cause of all things that happen, as Augustine says (De Trin. iii, 1 seqq.). Therefore
all things are
subject to fate.
The same is true for events in our lives. Relative to us they often appear to be by chance.
But relative to God, who directs everything according to his divine plan, nothing occurs by chance.
Hence if this divine influence
stopped, every operation would
stop.
Every operation, therefore, of anything is
traced back to Him as its cause. (Summa Contra Gentiles, Book III.)
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St. Thomas (C. G., II, xxviii) if God’s purpose were made
dependent on the foreseen free act of any creature, God would thereby
sacrifice His own freedom, and would
submit Himself to His creatures, thus abdicating His essential supremacy a thing which is, of course,
utterly inconceivable.
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If someone recognize from miles that a teaching or theory is part of the
“Milk food Theology” or it is part of the
“Solid food Theology,” he or she has a good theological knowledge.
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God bless