LessonsCompulsion and Choice: Voluntary Acts, Creation and AcquisitionQuiz

One person prays; another knowingly neglects prayer. The first action is obedience, the second a culpable omission. Both events occur within divine creation, yet their religious evaluations are different.

Divine will concerns what occurs; divine command concerns what is required; and approval concerns what is pleasing. The occurrence of a sin does not make that sin approved or permitted.

Without these distinctions, one might infer that anything that happens must be lawful or praiseworthy. Occurrence and moral permissibility are not the same.

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Choice in obedience and disobedience

Compulsion and Choice: Voluntary Acts, Creation and Acquisition

One person prays; another knowingly neglects prayer. The first action is obedience, the second a culpable omission. Both events occur within divine creation, yet their religious evaluations are different.

Divine will concerns what occurs; divine command concerns what is required; and approval concerns what is pleasing. The occurrence of a sin does not make that sin approved or permitted.

Without these distinctions, one might infer that anything that happens must be lawful or praiseworthy. Occurrence and moral permissibility are not the same.