God's will and logical twist

[MarcoPG]

God’s will is that every human being will be saved.
What God wants ineluctably happen.

So, why do some go to Hell?
It would be illogic to throw free-will out of God’s will for us.

I personally place our free-will in God’s will from all Eternity. However God does not force anybody. But then, is it not correct that everything that God wants willl happen?

What is wrong with this reasoning?

 

[Ad_Orientem]

St. Thomas (S.T. I, q.19, art. 6) explains it in this way:

[E]verything, in so far as it is good, is willed by God. A thing taken in its primary sense, and absolutely considered, may be good or evil, and yet when some additional circumstances are taken into account, by a consequent consideration may be changed into the contrary. Thus that a man should live is good; and that a man should be killed is evil, absolutely considered. But if in a particular case we add that a man is a murderer or dangerous to society, to kill him is a good; that he live is an evil. Hence it may be said of a just judge, that antecedently he wills all men to live; but consequently wills the murderer to be hanged. In the same way God antecedently wills all men to be saved, but consequently wills some to be damned, as His justice exacts. Nor do we will simply, what we will antecedently, but rather we will it in a qualified manner; for the will is directed to things as they are in themselves, and in themselves they exist under particular qualifications. Hence we will a thing simply inasmuch as we will it when all particular circumstances are considered; and this is what is meant by willing consequently. Thus it may be said that a just judge wills simply the hanging of a murderer, but in a qualified manner he would will him to live, to wit, inasmuch as he is a man. Such a qualified will may be called a willingness rather than an absolute will. Thus it is clear that whatever God simply wills takes place; although what He wills antecedently may not take place.

 

[MarcoPG]

So it is a good summary to say God’s will wants us to use our will, and this is part of God’s will.

 

[Ad_Orientem]

Hmm. Not sure about that. I’m not a theologian, but I think the expression “God wills x” is used in different senses, as S. Thomas has illustrated. To find a contradiction between him willing this and that is perhaps to make the expression mean the same thing everywhere it is used, which clearly it does not.

 

[MarcoPG]

Surely summarizing is the contrary of development, and explanations of meaning are already development. For example you could take so many citations, that seem to contain contradicitons.
That’s why it is God’s will in a nutshell, but the nutshell is to be opened…