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Adam and Eve= Beatific vision of God?

Took me awhile on this from the Summa, first part, ques 94:
"I answer that, The first man did not see God through His Essence if we
consider the ordinary state of that life; unless, perhaps, it be said that he
saw God in a vision, when "God cast a deep sleep upon Adam" (Genesis
2:21). The reason is because, since in the Divine Essence is beatitude
itself, the intellect of a man who sees the Divine Essence has the same
relation to God as a man has to beatitude. Now it is clear that man cannot
willingly be turned away from beatitude, since naturally and necessarily
he desires it, and shuns unhappiness. Wherefore no one who sees the
Essence of God can willingly turn away from God, which means to sin.
Hence all who see God through His Essence are so firmly established in
the love of God, that for eternity they can never sin. Therefore, as Adam
did sin, it is clear that he did not see God through His Essence.
Nevertheless he knew God with a more perfect knowledge than we do
now. Thus in a sense his knowledge was midway between our knowledge
in the present state, and the knowledge we shall have in heaven, when we
see God through His Essence."
ANGELS BEFORE THE FALL?
Regarding the Beatific Vision no Angel could have had it before The Fall,
simply because they were tested [Q.39.a.] and sinned. Follow this
through:
SCRIPTURE:
2 Pet 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned.
Job 4:18 [A]nd in his angels he found wickedness.
Jude 1:6 And the angels who kept not their principality but forsook their
own habitation.

4TH LATERAN COUNCIL (1215):


"Firmly we believe and we confess simply that the true God is....creator of
all visible and invisible things, of the spiritual and of the corporal...For the
devil and other demons were created by God good in nature, but they
themselves through themselves have become wicked."

--Denzinger - The Sources of Catholic Dogma (#428) [New Edition #800]

COUNCIL OF BRAGA II (561)


"If anyone says that the devil was not first a good angel made by God...let
him be anathema."
--Denzinger - The Sources of Catholic Dogma (#237, 7) [New Edition #457]
As to why the Angels could not have the Beatific Vision from the start:
NEW CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA (1967) / AQUINAS - SUMMA THEOLOGICA
"The beatific vision brings sinlessness [as we saw above the Angels
sinned] as one of its effects, for since the final happiness consists in an
intellectual vision of Him who is infinite truth and beauty, and the will then
reposes through that act in the possession of infinite goodness,it is
psychologically impossible for the will to turn from its adequate object to
a created good preferred to the uncreated good now possessed (ST 1a2ae,
4.4)."
--NEW CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA (1967) Vol. 2. pg. 192 d. "Beatific Vision"
Point 1) The choice an angel makes is irrevocable:CCC 393; Saint John of
Damascus De Fide orth.
Point 2) It follows that if the "good angels" ever sinned their evil choice is
still with them in their will.
Point 3) We know that the good angels are with God in heaven and have
the beatific vision.
"[T]heir angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in
heaven." Mt 18:10 ; Rev 7:11; Heb 12:22
Point 4) But nothing unclean can enter heaven: Rev 21:27 ; Is 52:1
Questions: How then could "good angels" with their irrevocable choices for
evil be: 1) in heaven and considered among the "good" and "holy" ? 2) how
will they ever be in heaven if nothing unclean can enter there and their

wills can never change?


Conclusion: When the angels were tested and made a choice for good or
evil that choice is forever with them, a holy angel will always remain holy
and cannot choose sin , add to that fact that they have the beatific vision
and are thereby confirmed in good, as has been proven already. It also
follows that a demon cannot choose good.
The CCC proclaims "It is the irrevocable character of their choice, and not a defect
in the infinite divine mercy, that makes the angels' sin unforgivable. There is no
repentance for the angels after their fall, just as there is no repentance for
men after death."

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