THEO 24842 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: John Cassian, John Scotus Eriugena, The Need
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Right answer: there is internal grace but it"s internal grace that still allows control of the person. Sometimes goodwill comes from god, sometimes from man. Idea that every desire of mankind is evil is false bc mankind retained knowledge of not only evil but good. First goodness is from god but doesn"t mean goodness can"t come from man. Humanity is that we are all branches from the same tree, all derived from the 2 first humans. If the biblical god is good, then he must want all humans to be saved and he can"t predestine some to be saved and some not. So humans can only damn themselves through their own free choices. For him, god has to be completely removed for even any sense of evil in creation. God created man with a free will and that free will remained after sin. The way god chose to expose himself implies that god wants us to use our.
