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https://twitter.com/rightscholar/status/1747451730533535803I don't think most people spend lots of time (not even universalists!) worrying/being sad because the Devil does not love God. People are concerned about loved ones in hell. The question is really about what happens in that case. Importantly, compassion isn't simply sadness.
https://twitter.com/JordanW41069857/status/1702412085781582315Here's what it seems to me that Jordan is saying, in the rest of the thread: it is proper to say Jesus is created from nothing, because not only His nature but His Person is created from nothing, and we can, by union with Christ, become uncreated in the same way that Jesus was.
https://twitter.com/thomaesplendor/status/1670252370083606529I noted that Aquinas insists that "predestination most certainly and infallibly takes effect; yet it does not impose any necessity." I ended by noting that, while Aquinas says this is true, much of the debate involves trying to determine how this is true.
https://twitter.com/EOrthodoxy/status/1670062981072273413In the end, it seems to me Stump is correct. God has allowed damnation precisely because He wants free creatures to be in free union with Him. God knew the consequences of allowing this, and assumed the cost upon Himself.
https://twitter.com/JoshuaLWatson/status/16689973400430428222. As Aquinas notes in the Summa: "The effect of divine providence is not only that things should happen ...but that they should happen either by necessity or by contingency."
https://twitter.com/SteveSkojec/status/1650202639882407937The Church is not a crutch for avoiding having to think through things by yourself, nor do the sacraments or other means 'ensure' that we will not be scandalized or commit sin.