Peter noted:
"Let's just stick to the few principles we know from revelation (combined
with science):
(1) God is sovereign, omnipotent, all-knowing, all-loving;
(2) God is constantly active as Creator and as Provider;
(3) God abstains from interfering with some decisions by free-will
creatures;
(4) God created stochastic laws, abstaining from micromanaging
everything;
(5) God is the agent responsible for all other "natural" processes";
(6) God sometimes does miracles outside the realm of "natural" events;
(7) God takes the consequences of sin upon himself on the cross of
Christ;
(8) God sometimes hurts those he loves for loving purposes;
(9) God provides to those accepting Christ a future of unspeakable
blessing;
The problem with the above list is, of course, that not all Christians
will agree with all 9 principles.
Just picking on #1, you have four attributes listed. The first and the
last might be agreeable to all -- the second and the third are not. At
the very least they are problematical and can (and are) debated.
John Burgeson (Burgy)
http://www.burgy.50megs.com
(science/theology, quantum mechanics, baseball, ethics,
humor, cars, God's intervention into natural causation, etc.)
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