RE: Sovereignty and its consequences

Pim van Meurs (entheta@eskimo.com)
Fri, 25 Dec 1998 17:06:37 -0800

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From: Howard J. Van Till[SMTP:110661.1365@com

"In contrast to the perspective that Terry represented well, I think that
God withholds micromanagement-style control so that the contingencies in
what takes place in the Creation are fully authentic--so authentic that
they are unpredictable and unknowable even to God. "

Hence my remarks about quantum uncertainty. By creating the Heisenberg uncertainty God has made sure that the actions of His Creation are unpredictable and unknowable. My only reservation here is that if God is the source of the uncertainty then how can we consider Him all powerful or all knowlegable ?
Does this mean that we have to drop this notion ? Or can it be reconciled ?
This is why I mentioned that IF God were a quantum effect, such as perhaps the quantum fluctuation which might have caused the Big Bang then the uncertainty was inherent to God rather than something he could not achieve or abandoned.