RE: [asa] God as Cause

God sustains the creation---the universe is not self-existing but derives its existence from the self-existing God. The mystery is that there may be a continuum of "interference" or "interaction" of the Creator with His creation, from the minimum required to sustain the creation to some sort of maximal interaction. However, humans can never discern or know the nature of this interaction.

An asteroid striking the earth is not a hypothetical event but a realistic possibility. Therefore, this possible occurrence is no different from any and all other events that happen at every instant of existence of the creation. Therefore, there may be only a single, discrete form of interaction of God with creation and not a continuous one. This is a mystery that would be neither able to be conceived nor fathomed by the human mind. Perhaps revealed truth may shed some light on this question.

Our theoretical models of Nature may invoke secondary causes but the actually reality may be governed only by first causes.

Moorad

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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu on behalf of George Murphy
Sent: Thu 1/4/2007 9:13 PM
To: Gregory Arago; Jim Armstrong; asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: [asa] God as Cause

It would not be wrong to say "God caused/causes cosmological evolution to occur" but that would be open to an essentially deist understanding. I.e., God sets the process moving & then lets a whole chain of events take place without further divine involvement. The doctrine of concurrence, however, says that God is continually cooperating with natural processes in everything that takes place in the world.
 
Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

        ----- Original Message -----
        From: Gregory Arago <mailto:gregoryarago@yahoo.ca>
        To: Jim Armstrong <mailto:jarmstro@qwest.net> ; asa@calvin.edu
        Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 6:56 PM
        Subject: Re: [asa] God as Cause
        
        
        Would it be properly expressed to say that God caused/causes cosmological evolution to occur? Or, that the effects of cosmological evolution were/are caused by God?
         
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