Paul II spells this out “Man’s genuine moral autonomy in no way means the rejection but rather the acceptance of the moral law, of God’s command: ‘The Lord God gave this comand to the man …’ (Gen 2:16). Human freedom and God’s law meet and are called to intersect, in the sense of man’s free obedience to God and of God’s completely gratuitous benevolence towards man” (Veritatis splendor, 41). Although on occasions temptation can make it difficult to make decisions, man is always in a position to opt
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