From: george murphy <gmurphy@raex.com>
One (but not the only) problem with this approach is that the same
fundamental physical processes are involved in actions that result in good
as well as evil. If God acts by persuasion, or co-operation, or
concurrence, or whatever, in fusion reactions in the sun that provide solar
energy so that we can live, in seems very difficult to argue that God isn't
involved in the same way in the fusion reactions in a an H-bomb detonated
over a city.
Precisely so. In both cases the divine "involvement" is constrained by the
essential restriction of non-coercion of creaturely action. (Essential here
means as a consequence of the fundamental nature of God, the world, and
their relationship.)
Howard
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