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I contend that these roles are inalienable and unexchangeable. This means that it is as impossible for God not to play the role that properly belongs to God and to play the role that properly belongs to creatures as it is for creatures not to play the role that properly belongs to them and to play the role that properly belongs to God. Just as it belongs to creatures to be patient of God's alone playing God's role -- the name for such patience at the human level, where it can only be a matter offree of free and responsible self-understanding, being "faith" (fides), which is to say, "trust" (fiducia) and "loyalty" (fidelitas) -- so it belongs to God to be patient of creatures' alone playing the role that properly belongs to them -- the name for such divine patience toward human beings, and, specifically, sinful human beings, being "grace" (favor).

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