Does God Love Some People More Than Others?
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2016
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Mike’s answer to this question may make you think differently about God’s love. He helps to reorient our perspective—explaining that it is not about how much God loves us, but about our capacity to receive his love. If the most valuable thing in the world is limited only by our desire for it, why not take as much of it as we can get?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascension Presents. |
| 0:07.2 | So there's this question that often I get asked a lot and that question is this, does |
| 0:11.9 | God love some people more than others? |
| 0:15.5 | Does God love some people more than others? |
| 0:17.0 | And the answer is pretty straight forward. |
| 0:19.1 | Yes. |
| 0:20.1 | Yeah, he does. |
| 0:22.2 | And no, actually it's a trick question. |
| 0:25.2 | So psych, sacca. |
| 0:27.4 | No, actually, so God does not love more, some people more than others in this sense. |
| 0:32.0 | God's love is equal for all. |
| 0:34.4 | God loves all people with what you call equal intensity. |
| 0:37.1 | This is what St. Thomas Aquinas would say. |
| 0:39.4 | God loves all people with equal intensity. |
| 0:41.9 | So it's basically with his affective love. |
| 0:43.9 | His affection for every person is, because since God is perfect, since God is one, since |
| 0:48.3 | God is love, he cannot love more or less. |
| 0:51.7 | He just is love. |
| 0:53.4 | So his affection at love, for all people, is equal in intensity. |
| 0:59.1 | Reflect on the fact that God is the only what they call necessary being. |
| 1:06.0 | God's the only necessary being. |
| 1:08.6 | That everything else that exists is what they call contingent being, which means it did |
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