Re: Classification scheme for ID debate
Robert L. Miller (rlmiller@garlic.com)
Mon, 6 Oct 1997 22:58:09 -0700> Bob Miller says:
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>>I suggest "special intervention" to distingush it from His normal immanence.
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> use "special intervention" for both types of theism -- for what (in my
>post) I call "miraculous" and "smoothly blending"?
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> and by "His normal immanence", do you mean the "sustaining" action?
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>Craig
Well, we do have to be careful about words. I take immanence to be in the
sense of Col 1:17. It seems to me that the scriptures are trying to convey
the idea that God (Jesus) is in charge of the world both physically and
spiritually. But like the scriptures I would be vague about precisely how
that is carried out. How is God's immanence related to the Heisenberg
uncertainty principle?
I take "special intervention" to be raising Lazurus from the dead, but most
of God's answers to prayer accomplished by the agency of His immanence.
Bob Miller