Theological Theses · §1918 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Most Roman doctors now reject predetermination: it destroys freedom and makes God the author of sin

The great majority of the Roman Church's teachers, however, now reject this view. They argue that an influence premoving and predetermining human wills to each of their acts completely destroys the freedom of human choice.

They add that it would make God the author of sin, since on that view he predetermines people even to intrinsically evil acts and lays on them a kind of necessity to do wrong.

Latin

XXVI. Sed multo major pars Doctorum Ecclesiae Romanae sententiam istam hodie rejicit, & pertendit influxum illum praemoventem & praedeterminantem voluntates hominum ad singulos ipsorum actus, humani arbitrii libertatem prorsus evertere; ac praeterea inde sequi Deum esse peccati authorem, ut qui, ex ista sententia, homines praedeterminet etiam ad actus intrinsece malos, & quandam male agendi necessitatem iis imponat.

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