Every bunny dies , some just so that an owl may live, did St Thomas Aquinas actually argue that everyone would benefit from everything?
Or did he just argue that an omnicient God would always make the right choice?
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Thomas Aquinas believed that the only being that has to contend with morality and choices based on morality are human beings. So yes, that bunnyrabbit died so that owl could live. It is all part of his divine plan.
God does not choose in the sense that you or I choose, because he has always known everything. He knows and has always known about that bunnyrabbit and every bunnyrabbit since forever, since God was not created and has always been and will always be. He knows when you have a lustful thought, and when you properly suppress it and beg forgiveness for it, and he known that you will be punished or pardoned for it, and has always known it.
You, Thomas Aquinas says, have free will. You have the POWER not to sin, but still God knows and has always known that you will or will not sin. Aquinas argues somewhat speciously that you still somehow the free will to act differently even though God knows you will not. That is where Aquinas starts getting rather silly, in my opinion.
I don;lt see how anyone can have free will if God knows the future. Not limited by the Bible, which I do not consider to be the word of God, I have decided that not even God can know the future.