Hell is Real. People Really Go There. Why Modern Man Can’t Understand This…

[Latin]

You’ve never seen anyone choose something they know is bad for them and will cause them serious problems? Lots of people follow a path of self destruction.

Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma by Ludwig Ott.

Fallen man cannot redeem himself. (De fide.) – It is God’s responsibility to save ALL OF US.

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THE WAY GOD SAVES HIS ELECT TO HEAVEN

CCCS 1990-1991; “… 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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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.”

De gratia Christi 25, 26: "For not only has God given us our ability and helps it, but He even works [brings about] willing and acting in us; not that we do not will or that we do not act, but that without His help we neither will anything good nor do it"
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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).

2022; The divine initiative in the work of grace precedes, prepares, and elicits the free response of man. Grace responds to the deepest yearnings of human freedom, calls freedom to cooperate with it, and perfects freedom. – No one rejects God’s call to eternal life in Heaven.

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Without the special help of God the justified cannot persevere to the end in justification. (De fide.) – It is God’s responsibility TO KEEP US SAVED by his Gift of Perseverance.
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The salvation of every predestined to Heaven is eternally protected by God’s gift of Perseverance, this is an INFALLIBLE PROTECTION of the salvation of every predestined to Heaven. – This is an infallible teachings of the Trent and formal teachings of the Catholic Church.

Without God’s gift of Perseverance everyone would die in mortal sin, (THERE IS NO SALVATION WITHOUT IT) while the receivers of His gift of Perseverance NO ONE can die in mortal sin because this is an INFALLIBLE PROTECTION of every predestined to Heaven.
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God bless

 

[Latin]

Because heaven is about God, not self.
People are selfish, and choose their own wants and desires over God every day.

This is simply untrue.
We can see this every day. People sin all the time, and each one is an example of choosing selfish desires over God.

Please see my above post.

God bless

 

[Latin]

The Catholic Church teaches and it is an INFALLIBLE TEACHING of the Trent and a formal teachings of the Catholic Church, those who are predestined to Heaven CAN NOT LOSE THEIR SALVATION.
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I know The Council of Trent, Sixth Session Canons ON JUSTIFICATION.

CANON XV.-If any one saith, that a man, who is born again and justified, is bound of faith to believe that he is assuredly in the number of the predestinate; let him be anathema.
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The above canon is not referring to the members of the predestined to Heaven because their salvation is eternally and infallibly protected by God’s gift of Perseverance.

According to Catholic Theology, if even one of them would reject God’s graces would end up in hell and God would lose His omniscience, so their salvation as safe as God’s omniscience.

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Trent, Sixth Session Canons ON JUSTIFICATION, Canon XV referring to another predestination, called: Predestination to Grace or Predestination to Initial salvation, both means the same theory of predestination.
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The Church Fathers did not teach this predestination and I believe the Church closed the door on this predestination because it is a positive predestination, God chosen the members but the destination of this predestination is hell.

According to the theory of this predestination, God predestined the members to become parts of the Church for a limited time, then they rejects God’s grace and they all end up in hell.

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Without the special help of God the justified cannot persevere to the end in justification. (De fide.) – It is God’s responsibility TO KEEP US SAVED by his Gift of Perseverance.

At their baptism none of them receives God’s Gift of Perseverance which gift of grace could keep them saved, as the results they are all of them on the one way road to hell.

I never believed the existence of this theory of predestination.
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Without God’s gift of Perseverance everyone would die in mortal sin, THERE IS NO SALVATION WITHOUT THIS GIFT OF GRACE, while the receivers of His gift of Perseverance NO ONE can die in mortal sin because this is an INFALLIBLE PROTECTION of every receiver.

This is one of the proof among many that God is responsible for our salvation.
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God bless

 

[Latin]

The Catholic Church teaches and it is an INFALLIBLE TEACHING of the Trent and a formal teachings of the Catholic Church, those who are predestined to Heaven CAN NOT LOSE THEIR SALVATION.
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I know The Council of Trent, Sixth Session Canons ON JUSTIFICATION.

CANON XV.-If any one saith, that a man, who is born again and justified, is bound of faith to believe that he is assuredly in the number of the predestinate; let him be anathema.
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The above canon is not referring to the members of the predestined to Heaven because their salvation is eternally and infallibly protected by God’s gift of Perseverance.
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According to Catholic Theology, if even one of them would reject God’s graces would end up in hell and God would lose His omniscience, so their salvation as safe as God’s omniscience.

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Trent, Sixth Session Canons ON JUSTIFICATION, Canon XV referring to another predestination, called: Predestination to Grace or Predestination to Initial salvation, both means the same theory of predestination.

The Church Fathers did not teach this predestination and I believe the Church closed the door on this predestination because it is a positive predestination, God chosen the members but the destination of this predestination is hell.
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According to the theory of this predestination, God predestined the members to become part of the Church for a limited time, then they rejects God’s grace and they all end up in hell.

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Without the special help of God the justified cannot persevere to the end in justification. (De fide.) – It is God’s responsibility TO KEEP US SAVED by his Gift of Perseverance.
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At their baptism none of them receives God’s Gift of Perseverance which gift of grace could keep them saved, as the results they are all of them on the one way road to hell.

I never believed the existence of this theory of predestination.
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Without God’s gift of Perseverance everyone would die in mortal sin, THERE IS NO SALVATION WITHOUT THIS GIFT OF GRACE, while the receivers of His gift of Perseverance NO ONE can die in mortal sin because this is an INFALLIBLE PROTECTION of every receiver.

This is one of the proof among many other proof that God is responsible for our salvation.
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God bless

 

[Latin]

I answer the above question with absolute certainty, based on Catholic Theology.

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If the theory: Predestination to Grace or Predestination to Initial salvation, is reality, those who are predestined only to grace/ initial salvation, they justified and absolutely sure they lose salvation and they all end up in hell.

If the theory: Predestination to Grace or Predestination to Initial salvation, is only theory and it is not reality, God justifies only those who are predestined to Heaven and they can never lose their salvation.

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In fact Catholic Theology proves, Predestination to Grace or Predestination to Initial salvation, is only a theory and CAN NOT BE a reality.
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THE PROOF IS:

If a Predestined to Grace/ Predestined to Initial salvation would die while he is still in the state of grace would end up in Heaven and God would instantly lose His omniscience.

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The Catholic dogma
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA The predestination of the elect.

(1) Consequently, the whole future membership of heaven, down to its minutest details, with all the different measures of grace and the various degrees of happiness, has been irrevocably fixed from all eternity. Nor could it be otherwise. For if it were possible that a predestined individual should after all be cast into hell or that one not predestined should in the end reach heaven, then God would have been mistaken in his foreknowledge of future events; He would no longer be omniscient.

(2) The second quality of predestination, the definiteness of the number of the elect, follows naturally from the first. For if the eternal counsel of God regarding the predestined is unchangeable, then the number of the predestined must likewise be unchangeable and definite, subject neither to additions nor to cancellations. Anything indefinite in the number would eo ipso imply a lack of certitude in God’s knowledge and would destroy His omniscience. Furthermore, the very nature of omniscience demands that not only the abstract number of the elect, but also the individuals with their names.

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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According to the above proof, God justifies only those who are predestined to Heaven and no one else and they can NEVER LOSE THEIR SALVATION and they all end up in heaven.
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God bless

 

[Inquiry]

Your citations correctly show that without God man cannot be redeemed and saved and that He will never give up on anyone. You have not shown that His help cannot be rejected. Indeed 2022, the part you cite as saying there is no ability to reject Grace, actually says it “elicits the free response of man”, not denies it. Other parts of the Catechism also make it clear that people can reject communion with God and that doing so is Hell.

Look, I would prefer that no one was in Hell, and I am open to the possibility that no one has yet gone there, but it is definitely possible for us to end up there. As comforting as it would be, we are not constrained such that we can never reject God. We have to come to Him of our own free choice. He’ll help us, but He won’t abduct us unwillingly.

 

[IanM]

Michael Voris at the top of his game in this very recent Vortex. Well worth your time!

 

[englands123]

It doesn’t matter if Hell is real or not. We should love our Lord because we do. As a child loves their dad.

If anyone loves God because of Hell , then I would suggest going to see a priest for guidance because this isn’t what God wants.

 

[Inquiry]

Let me preface by saying that I know what you mean and it is good advice.

That said, since Hell is the deliberate self exclusion from God, the first thing I thought when I read your post was: If anyone loves God because they don’t want to be apart from him they should see a priest for guidance.

 

[steve-b]

Vico:

Contrast the idea with the event of one-third of the angels choosing not to serve , even in the state of grace and posessing their superior intelligence.

What I was taught is that the angels were not in a state of grace before their fall. Nor were they in a state of sin. God did not reveal Himself to them in the Beatific Vision until they had voluntarily chosen to serve Him. Thus their free will was not forced. But once an angelic decision is made, it is permanent.

Sounds like Aquinas.

2 Q’s & an observation​

1. isn’t being without sin before the fall, being in a state of grace?

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1. how could God (Pure spirit) NOT reveal Himself visually, to the Angels (pure spirit), and supernatural, when He created THEM, UNTIL they voluntarily chose to serve Him?

Since

Free will only matters when we have a choice to make, AND we know up front, that the choice we make have consequences good or bad, depending on the choice we make or don’t make.

Observation

Angels were always in the presence of God. If they didn’t see God, then by definition, they needed faith. After all, the definition of faith

faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

I don’t recall, angels having, nor needing, faith because they saw everything

 

[Vico]

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1. isn’t being without sin before the fall, being in a state of grace?
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2. how could God (Pure spirit) NOT reveal Himself visually, to the Angels (pure spirit), and supernatural, when He created THEM, UNTIL they voluntarily chose to serve Him?
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   I don’t recall, angels having, nor needing, faith.

The angels are non-corporeal (immaterial) created pure spirits. They were not created with the Beatific Vision, defined in the Catholic Encyclopedia:

“The immediate knowledge of God which the angelic spirits and the souls of the just enjoy in Heaven.”

Pace, E. (1907). Beatific Vision. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02364a.htm

Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma (by Ludwig Ott), p. 118, that:

The angels were subjected to a moral testing. (Sent. Certa. as regards the fallen angels, Sent. communis as regards the good.)

They were first in a state of pilgrimage (in statu viae), in which they, through their free co-operation, with grace were required to merit (in statu termini) the Beatific Vision of God.

Answers are in the Catechism of the Catholic Church on this:

1815 The gift of faith remains in one who has not sinned against it. …

302 Creation has its own goodness and proper perfection, but it did not spring forth complete from the hands of the Creator. The universe was created “in a state of journeying” ( in statu viae ) toward an ultimate perfection yet to be attained, to which God has destined it. We call “divine providence” the dispositions by which God guides his creation toward this perfection:

By his providence God protects and governs all things which he has made, “reaching mightily from one end of the earth to the other, and ordering all things well”. For “all are open and laid bare to his eyes”, even those things which are yet to come into existence through the free action of creatures.161

311 Angels and men, as intelligent and free creatures, have to journey toward their ultimate destinies by their free choice and preferential love. They can therefore go astray. Indeed, they have sinned. …

392 Scripture speaks of a sin of these angels. 269 This “fall” consists in the free choice of these created spirits, who radically and irrevocably rejected God and his reign. …

1028 Because of his transcendence, God cannot be seen as he is, unless he himself opens up his mystery to man’s immediate contemplation and gives him the capacity for it. The Church calls this contemplation of God in his heavenly glory “the beatific vision”: …

 

[JimG]

I’m not a theologian, but the way it was explaine to me is this:
The Beatific Vision consists essentially in one’s idea of God being replaced by the actuality of God. We perceive God “face to face” metaphorically. Since God is infinite good, and the human and the angelic will are designed to be attracted to the good, being in the presence of God in His essence means that our will, and angel’s will, would inevitably be drawn to and united to Him. To be able to choose God freely, he must remain in some way hidden from us. Both angels and man, had to freely choose God over themselves before being admitted to the Beatfic Vision.

 

[steve-b]

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1. isn’t being without sin before the fall, being in a state of grace?
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2. how could God (Pure spirit) NOT reveal Himself visually, to the Angels (pure spirit), and supernatural, when He created THEM, UNTIL they voluntarily chose to serve Him?
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   I don’t recall, angels having, nor needing, faith.

Vico:

The angels are non-corporeal (immaterial) created pure spirits. They were not created with the Beatific Vision, defined in the Catholic Encyclopedia:

“The immediate knowledge of God which the angelic spirits and the souls of the just enjoy in Heaven.”

Pace, E. (1907). Beatific Vision. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02364a.htm

Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma (by Ludwig Ott) that:

The angels were subjected to a moral testing. (Sent. Certa. as regards the fallen angels, Sent. communis as regards the good.)

They were first in a state of pilgrimage (in statu viae), in which they, through their free co-operation, with grace were required to merit (in statu termini) the Beatific Vision of God.

Answers are in the Catechism of the Catholic Church on this:

1815 The gift of faith remains in one who has not sinned against it. …

302 Creation has its own goodness and proper perfection, but it did not spring forth complete from the hands of the Creator. The universe was created “in a state of journeying” ( in statu viae ) toward an ultimate perfection yet to be attained, to which God has destined it. We call “divine providence” the dispositions by which God guides his creation toward this perfection:

By his providence God protects and governs all things which he has made, “reaching mightily from one end of the earth to the other, and ordering all things well”. For “all are open and laid bare to his eyes”, even those things which are yet to come into existence through the free action of creatures.161

311 Angels and men, as intelligent and free creatures, have to journey toward their ultimate destinies by their free choice and preferential love. They can therefore go astray. Indeed, they have sinned. …

392 Scripture speaks of a sin of these angels. 269 This “fall” consists in the free choice of these created spirits, who radically and irrevocably rejected God and his reign. …

1028 Because of his transcendence, God cannot be seen as he is, unless he himself opens up his mystery to man’s immediate contemplation and gives him the capacity for it. The Church calls this contemplation of God in his heavenly glory “the beatific vision”: …

Yet I looked in the source you recommended

I don’t see where the issue of angels not seeing God is addressed http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01476d.htm

Nor in theological theory How Could Lucifer, an Archangel, Have Rebelled against God? | Catholic Answers

 

[Vico]

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Yet I looked in the source you recommended

I don’t see where the issue of angels not seeing God is addressed http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01476d.htm

Nor in theological theory How Could Lucifer, an Archangel, Have Rebelled against God? | Catholic Answers

Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, p. 118. note that those in statu viae do not have the Beatific Vision.

The angels were subjected to a moral testing. (Sent. Certa. as regards the fallen angels, Sent. communis as regards the good.)

They were first in a state of pilgrimage ( in statu viae ), in which they, through their free co-operation, with grace were required to merit ( in statu termini ) the Beatific Vision of God.

Additionally, p. 117:

God set a supernatural final end for the angels, the immediate vision of God, and endowed them with sanctifying grace in order that they might achieve this end. (Sent. certa.)

From Denzinger, Sources of Catholic Dogma:

ST. PIUS V 1566-1572 Errors of Michael du Bay (BAII) *
[Condemned in the Bull “Ex omnibus afflictionibus,” Oct. 1, 1567]
1001 1. Neither the merits of an angel nor of the first man still in the state of integrity are called grace.
1003 3. Felicity would be the reward, and not grace both for the good angels and for the first man, if he had persevered in that state even to the end of his life.
SourceURL:Denzinger - English translation, older numbering Denzinger - English translation, older numbering

 

[Latin]

Either you are saying that God wills our bad acts or that when we commit a bad act, we are using our free will to do so.

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.”

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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In THE PROBLEM OF EVIL Peter Kreeft explains;
“Who’s to say suffering is all bad? Life without it would produce spoiled brats, not joyful saints.”

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;

God is the sole ruler of the world. His will governs all things. He loves all men, desires the salvation of all, and His providence extends to all nations.

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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As we see above: His wisdom He so Designed/ Planned, Decreed/ Orders from all eternity EVERY event within the universe, He directs all, even evil and sin itself to the final end for which the universe was created.

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Like the Military trains (training like hell) their elite soldiers, God trains us by experience and contrast overcome through the obstacles of the dramas of evil and sin , to be well informed joyful saints.
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Yes, our training (like hell on earth) contains both our bad acts and our good acts, Designed/ Planned, Decreed by God from all eternity for each of us to perform.

God’s will is the cause of all things, every event that happen or will happen in the universe.

Nothing that is outside of God’s creating, sustaining, and governing will.

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

 

[IsaiahSpirit]

In the spirit of Bishop Robert Barron’s ‘Seeds of The Word,’ whereby we find things that point to our Beloved Redeemer Jesus Christ and Salvation,
the idea of ‘event horizons,’ for black holes in astrophysics can be used.
They also are speaking of and ‘event horizon’ whereby, by all possible radio or infrared imaging, there is space beyond what we can see.
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In the course of our life, seeking virtue, according to knowledge governs our behavior. We are responsible for how we treat others in thought, word, and action. Thought, because ideas shape words and actions.
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Since The Lord God is Almighty, both just and merciful - any time someone gets close to the event horizon of permanent separation from God, whereby, they in their own free, that person can be rescued by God from something in word or deed that shapes their inner being; but all of there free will in providential experience - whereby God knows every single mitigating factor - but either decides by The Merits of Jesus Christ in God’s Grace to heed the promptings of God, or in effect become selfish forever.
But once someone decides and carries out passing the event horizon, they absorb the inner spirits & disharmony of evil ways.
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Outward and inward sense of piety doesn’t necessarily mean salvation.
Someone could be a very hard working pious person, but be doing it for vanity. We don’t know anyone’s heart, but according to knowledge of Christ for example, and stewardship example in word and action to glorify His Name, and His objective ways for His Purposes in one’s setting, sometimes gives clues to possible wolves in sheep’s clothing who do it for prestige.
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Jesus called those like this, white washed tombs full of all manner of corruption. They worship, pray, give tithes & offerings, and alms to the poor. And we can’t forget, not all who say Lord, Lord will inherit The Kingdom of God, for He said that the will claim casting out devils, healing, and doing mighty deeds in His Name; but He will say depart from Me you workers of inequity, I never knew you. Someone could have pride of life, thinking their own private philosophy or agenda for worldly affairs in humanity; by The Teachings of The Church; seem so wonderful but still end up in damnation by free act of the will because of poor stewardship by what they should have known by all The Grace God gives what to do.
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Peace.

 

[Latin]

You have not shown that His help cannot be rejected.

I’m sorry about it, I show it now as follows:
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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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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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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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God’s call to eternal life is supernatural, coming TOTALLY from God’s decision and surpassing ALL power of human intellect and will. – CCCS 1996-1998;

There is a supernatural intervention of God in the faculties of the soul, which precedes the free act of the will, (De fide).

CCC 308 The truth that God is at work in all the actions of his creatures is inseparable from faith in God the Creator.
God is the first cause who operates in and through secondary causes:
"For God is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.“171
Far from diminishing the creature’s dignity, this truth enhances it.

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St. Thomas teaches that God effects everything, the willing and the achievement. S. Th.II/II 4, 4 ad 3:

St. Thomas also teaches that all movements of will and choice must be traced to the divine will: and not to any other cause, because Gad alone is the cause of our willing and choosing. CG, 3.91.
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Aquinas said, "God changes the will without forcing it . But he can change the will from the fact that he himself operates in the will as he does in nature,” De Veritatis 22:9. 31. ST I-II:112:3. 32. Gaudium et Spes 22; "being …
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De gratia Christi 25, 26: "For not only has God given us our ability and helps it, but He even works [brings about] willing and acting in us; not that we do not will or that we do not act, but that without His help we neither will anything good nor do it"
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De gratia et libero arbitrio 16, 32: "It is certain that we will when we will; but He brings it about that we will good … . It is certain that we act when we act, but He brings it about that we act, providing most effective powers to the will."
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God bless

 

[Annie]

So why chose the good? Why not sin? Why bother with God?

If we can’t help but sin, if God causes all our acts, then what is the point of all this?

 

[Latin]

THE ANSWER OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

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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In THE PROBLEM OF EVIL Peter Kreeft explains;
“Who’s to say suffering is all bad? Life without it would produce spoiled brats, not joyful saints.”

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 Divine Providence explains the ultimate perfection, to which God has destined the human race.
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This, the beneficent purpose of an all-seeing Providence, is wholly gratuitous, entirely unmerited (Romans 3:24; 9:11-2).
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It extends to all men (Romans 2:10; 1 Timothy 2:4), even to the reprobate Jews (Romans 11:26 sq.); and by it all God’s dealings with man are regulated (Ephesians 1:11).
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It extends to every individual, adapting itself to the needs of each (St. John Chrysostom, Hom. xxviii in Matt, n. 3 in; P.G., LVII, 354).
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All things are created and governed with a view to man, to the development of his life and his intelligence, and to the satisfaction of his needs (Aristides, i, v, vi, xv, xvi.
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His wisdom He so orders all events within the universe that the end for which it was created may be realized.
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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
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That end is that all creatures should manifest the glory of God, and in particular that man should glorify Him, recognizing in nature the work of His hand, serving Him in obedience and love, and thereby attaining to the full development of his nature and to eternal happiness in God.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12510a.htm

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307 God thus enables men to be intelligent and free, causes in order to complete the work of creation, … Though often unconscious collaborators with God’s will, they can also enter deliberately into the divine plan by their actions…
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311 For almighty God, . . . because he is supremely good, would never allow any evil whatsoever to exist in his works if he were not so all-powerful and good as to cause good to emerge from evil itself.177
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324 Faith gives us the certainty that God would not permit an evil if he did not cause a good to come from that very evil, by ways that we shall fully know only in eternal life.
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301 With creation, God does not abandon his creatures to themselves.
He not only gives them being and existence, but also, and at every moment, upholds and sustains them in being, enables them to act and brings them to their final end. Recognizing this utter dependence with respect to the Creator is a source of wisdom and freedom, of joy and confidence.
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God bless

 

[Annie]

Can you explain the answer to my question in your own words instead of a series of quotes? I don’t think those quotes are answering my question.