No @Jen7,
we are not an accident of man’s whim, we are God’s design from all eternity, our birth day, our future date when we will die, our life here on earth, includes every event/ act we will perform,
all God’s design.
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Free Will
explains;
“God is the author of
all causes and effects, 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;
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, “Apol.”, 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.
God preserves the universe in being;
He acts in and with every creature in each and all its activities.
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 nation.
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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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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CCC 308 For God is at work in you,
both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
Far from diminishing the creature’s dignity, this truth
enhances it.
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CCC 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. They then fully become
“God’s fellow workers” and co-workers for his kingdom.
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As we see above, God is the
CREATOR, CAUSER/ DETERMINER of our
Free will, and
we all freely will what God wills us to will and we all freely do what God wills and CAUSES us to do.
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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 dogma).
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God bless