Re: [asa] God as Cause

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Hamilton" <williamehamiltonjr@yahoo.com>
To: <wdwllace@sympatico.ca>; <gmurphy@raex.com>
Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: [asa] God as Cause

--- Dave Wallace <wdwllace@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Have you written specifically as to why God's action should be expected
> to be hidden? If so could you provide references. I agree with you but
> I'm curious why you think so.
>
I'm pretty sure George has written on this, and I await his response.
However,
I have my own thooughts which may or may not be in tune with George. It
seems
to me that God has the choice of coercing the kind of behavior he wants from
men, or of allowing men to have free will. For men's will to be completely
free
God cannot "tip his hand" by intervening in an obvious way, so instead he
deals
only with those who seek him, and only in ways that allow skeptics to deny
that
God is involved.

Does God deal only with those who seek him?

"I was ready to be sought out by those who did not ask,
to be found by those who did not seek me.
I said, 'Here I am, her I am,' to a nation that did not call on my name.
I held out my hands all day long to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not good,
following their own devices."

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

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Received on Wed Jan 17 19:09:08 2007