{"id":466,"date":"2010-06-03T15:53:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T14:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/?p=466"},"modified":"2010-06-03T15:53:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T14:53:42","slug":"permanence-of-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/permanence-of-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Permanence of Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In discussing what grace is, Aquinas raises an objection that it cannot be a habit, because it is easily lost: &#8220;if grace is something in the soul, it seems that it must be a habit&#8230; but it is not a habit, for a habit is a quality that is not easily altered, as the Philosopher says in the <em>Categories<\/em>, while grace is removed with the greatest ease, since it is lost by one act of mortal sin. Therefore grace is not something in the soul&#8221; (De Veritate, q. 27, a. 1, obj 9).<\/p>\n<p>In response, Aquinas denies the premise of the objection, that grace is easily lost. &#8220;Although grace is lost through a single act of mortal sin, grace is not easily lost; for it is not easy for the person who has grace to do such an act, on account of his contrary inclination, as Aristotle says in <em>Ethics<\/em> V, that it is difficult for the just man to do unjust deeds.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In discussing what grace is, Aquinas raises an objection that it cannot be a habit, because it is easily lost: &#8220;if grace is something in the soul, it seems that it must be a habit&#8230; but it is not a habit, for a habit is a quality that is not easily altered, as the Philosopher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fundamental-option","category-sin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathsoflove.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}