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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "So I have a question. So according to this theoretical framework, like, you have humans and you have other life, as in planted animals...."
A student argues that plants and animals might be closer to God than humans because they obey divine natural law blindly and humans cannot escape physics or biology.
Jiang rejects the idea that harmonizing wills makes a person into God; the aim is likeness or closeness to God, not self-deification.
Jiang says Dante's framework does not seek divinization through power; it distinguishes the absolute will that stays connected to God from the contingent will that acts within worldly choice, and it aims to harmonize them so a person moves closer to God.
"So I have a question. So according to this theoretical framework, like, you have humans and you have other life, as in planted animals...."
"Yeah. I understand that. I understand that. Yes. Keep on going. Yes. Well, if you align all contingent wills and create absolute will, you..."
"No, no, no. You're not trying to become God. You're trying to be, you're trying to be close to the God. Do you understand?..."
"No, that's not what Dante would say. Some other people would say that, but not, but not Dante. Okay. All right. So the idea..."
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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