"It has become patently obvious to me that you have totally misunderstood my argument despite the numerous occasions I have tried to clarify it for you.'" Your previous comment summed up, or so you told us, what you really wanted to say. Trouble is, it isn't what you said in your first comment. So guess why we might have misunderstood.

"Throughout the exchange you have never said whether you accept the Church's teaching re: the sins against Hope, viz: despair and presumption." Throughout the exchange I have never denied it. I just objected to the way you used Aquinas.  And by the way, I object because I am sufficiently catechised in Aquinas.