@NevinClimenhaga@majestyofreason I donโt think itโs reasonable to [help] promote views one believes are dangerously false without also providing a rigorous Summa-style rebuttal that confronts them head-on.
@CounterApologis@sed13949@elementgermani2@JHartfordF Remove the condition and the necessity disappears. God could have not willed to create this world (or not created at all).
- Aquinas addresses this in Article 3, question 19, First Part of the Summa.
@CounterApologis@sed13949@elementgermani2@JHartfordF In the case of Godโs free acts relating to things outside the divine essence, only CONDITIONAL necessity applies, not absolute necessity.
If God eternally wills to create X, then it's necessary that He wills it (because his will is immutable). The necessity depends on the "if."