buttercat1791 on Nostr: This sounds to me like it's getting at the Thomistic nature/supernature distinction. ...

This sounds to me like it's getting at the Thomistic nature/supernature distinction. In the natural order, we are created good, and thus we are able to do some natural goods. However, due to Original Sin, we cannot attain any supernatural good, because we are separated from the grace of God.

By Baptism (which gives the gift of faith) we are brought back into that grace, and thus with God's help we can attain to supernatural goods, specifically friendship with God.

That love or charity that St. Paul speaks of is another divine gift given at Baptism, and it allows us to act with right motivations.