ends they prefer to it. As the universal saving will of God and the particularity of Christ pose a question about the accessibility of salvation, so the universal saving will and the freedom of the creature pose a question about the extreme case of conflict between the two. Here Christians have resisted definitive decision as to whether (or to what extent) the freedom of the creature could thwart the fulfillment of the divine desire in anything or whether God necessarily bends the creature’s freedom
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