QotD

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"According to Gilson, Duns Scotus says of God that He is free "to set up any moral code He pleases so long as it deals with rules of human conduct whose relations to His own essance are not necessary ones." This is against those who assume that all moral relationships with God are necessary ones, excluding sponteneity; that to serve God is not to be free but finally ans irrevocably bound. A moral code does not suppress choice, but educates and forms liberty. But for some, morality is opposed not only to evil choice (sin), but to any choice at all, any personal act of the will, any initiative, and obedience is therefore compulsusion, but a matter of love. For them God is not love but power, obedience is not freedom but submission and inertia."
~~Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander.