"Howard J. Van Till" wrote:
> 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.)
Do I understand you to say that God does not only not intervene
to stop volcanoes, H-bombs &c but that God cannot, "as a consequence of
the fundamental nature of God, the world, and their relationship", keep
from doing whatever it is God does (persuade, cooperate &c) with natural
processes to enable them to bring about their consequences?
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
"The Science-Theology Interface"
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