Free Will negated by incentives

[Latin]

Is man’s will capable of defeating God’s will? See Ephesians 1:3-4

Man’s aided free will by God is NOT CAPABLE of defeating His LIBERTARIAN FREE WILL.

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The Catholic dogma
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA The predestination of the elect.

ante prævisa merita
“Asserts that God, by an absolute decree and without regard to any future supernatural merits, predestined from all eternity certain men to the glory of heaven, and then, in consequence of this decree, decided to give them all the graces necessary for its accomplishment.”

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CCCS 1990-1991; Justification is God’s free gift which detaches man from enslavement to sin and reconciles him to God.

Justification is also our acceptance of God’s righteousness. In this gift, faith, hope, charity, and OBEDIENCE TO GOD’S WILL are given to us.
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CCCS 1996-1998; Justification comes from grace (God’s free and undeserved help) and is given to us to respond to his call.

This call to eternal life is supernatural, coming TOTALLY from God’s decision and surpassing ALL power of human intellect and will.
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John 15:16; You did not chose Me, but I chose you.

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Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma by Ludwig Ott;

The three Divine or Theological Virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity are infused with Sanctifying grace. (De fide.)
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There is a supernatural intervention of God in the faculties of the soul, which precedes the free act of the will, (De fide).

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Our ability to will good and to do good and our cooperation with God’s graces is the creation/ product of God’s Internal Supernatural Graces and His Supernatural Intervention in the faculties of our souls.
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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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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.
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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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God bless

 

[EndTimes]

Our Free Will is never negated…

Affected say by Tempations not Negated via our Free Will (e.g, Satan / Eve and Adam) … Yes

Negated? Never …

We always retain our Free Will - even as to Reverse past actions OF our will …

 

[PetraG]

God does not create Heaven as an incentive. Rather, due to the nature of consequences people change their behavior, just like an incentive.

We tend to think of Heaven as a limited place outside of our known universe. If we stop and consider it, though, Heaven, as the dwelling of God, must be the greater limitless place or state and our known universe is the limited bounded state. The material universe we know must be more like a little playpen in the greater reality of all existence as it is known by God. Just as God has always existed, Heaven has always existed, for to be in Heaven is to be in the undimmed presence of God. It is our little limited existence that is the bounded place, the place that can be marked out with walls around its perimeter. The gates of Heaven have to be the gates leading out of the bounded place where we are, not gates that are in walls that surround the unbounded and unlimited Glory of God. What walls could ever surround God, after all? It is impossible!

 

[PetraG]

I never said objective sin wasn’t sin. I said culpability is always a factor on a case by case basis.
All of the sections about repentance and humility, and identifying and correcting sinful behavior is intact.

There is sin where there is no culpability? How is an offense a sin when there is no culpability and therefore no guilt? How is there absolution when there is no offense? To absolve a sin is very different than to excuse a harmful act that was committed by an innocent actor.

As for Adam, gullibility was not deliberate.

I think a plain reading of Genesis says otherwise.

But the fact is God is very forgiving and Jesus was especially. This let’s you know sin and the law remains an act of love to protect us from our selves. Not a punitive gauntlet to weed out unworthy because we are all rank unworthy. If it was the latter forgiveness and mercy would not be so freely given for those who ask for forgiveness via contrition and repentance.

I just have this sense that you are placing limits on the mercy of God by trying to mitigate the ownership of the decision to act in a way that pleases desire at the expense of knowingly offending the divine will. No, the offense was deliberate. There is mercy and forgiveness and a willingness to reconcile in spite of that!

 

[Latin]

Make no mistake Adam sinned but that is not the end of the analysis.

ANALYSE OF ADAM’S SIN

Catholic Encyclopedia : Evil
“But we cannot say without denying the Divine omnipotence, that another equally perfect universe could not be created in which evil would have no place.”
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310 But why did God not create a world so perfect that no evil could exist in it?
With infinite wisdom and goodness God freely willed to create a world in a state of journeying towards its ultimate perfection, 314 through the dramas of evil and sin .
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As we see above, in this world God had to create the dramas of evil and sin and this is what He created at His cause of the fall of Adam.
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In The Mystery of Predestination by John Salza explains;

Page 113; “God, however, willed to permit Adam to reject His grace and to sin.” – His wisdom He so ordered the events of his sin, which He Designed, Decreed and Ordered form all eternity, reasons described in CCC 310; 311; 314; 324; etc.

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Life without suffering would produce spoiled brats, not joyful saints.

Our struggle and tribulation while journeying towards our ultimate perfection through the dramas of evil and sin is the cost which in-prints the virtue/ nobility into our souls – the cost of our road to nobility and perfection.

In this world man has to learn by experience and contrast, and to develop by the overcoming of obstacles (Lactantius, “De ira Dei”, xiii, xv in “P.L.”, VII, 115-24. St. Augustine “De ordine”, I, vii, n. 18 in “P.L.”, XXXII, 986).

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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.

He directs all, even evil and sin itself, to the final end for which the universe was created.

Evil, therefore, ministers to God’s design (St. Gregory the Great, op. cit., VI, xxxii in “P.L.”,
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303 The sacred books powerfully affirm God’s absolute sovereignty over the course of events.
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God’s will is the cause of all things, every event that happen or will happen in the universe.
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Nothing that is outside of God’s creating, sustaining, and governing will.
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History is not just what He sees will be, but is what He causes to be , especially in every aspect of the redemptive process.
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God bless

 

[Maximus1]

There is sin where there is no culpability. In reality, diminished Culpability would likely be the more common circumstance. You typed," you think otherwise," with respect to Adam. Are you in fact talking about Actus Reus. His action being deliberate. An issue seperate from his sinful state of mind? Mens Rea!
Saint Augustine in the context of sin is thought to be the originator of the idea of mens rea. You have to have the merging of actus reus and mens rea, to have a crime. ( Have you ever wondered why our criminal justice system punishes crime and categorizes it based upon the
" badness" or " sinfulness" of our mental state? There is no reason for the " secular state" to concern itself with degrees of sinfulness is there? ) Saint Augustine’s long ago sermon where he raised it actually the foundation of the criminal justice system??
Why should secular law care about such a thing? Perhaps the influence of the retributive justice model is pervasive. So what is restorative justice?

 

[EndTimes]

Even children can and do know what Sin is.