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What you will cite as evidence, by way of authority, not argument is that (a) the universe and its creations are vast, (b) if God is aware of all these things, surely he's involved in them at a detailed level, but that's the end of your analysis. I don't see that logically compelled. In fact, because God has so much to manage, most great managers delegate but allow things to develop without constant micromanagers. So it seems to me, God may receive reports and observations but only intervenes if something won't correct itself.
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I find it hard to think this isn't the case. It is my best explanation for genocide, rape, racism, etc. God cares deeply but has created a plan that requires most of his childrens' affairs to be handled by his children while he tries to whisper to them helpful guidance that would be invaluable if they could only drown out the secondary noise and listen.
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Is God constrained by time and space inasmuch as there are innumerable things going on simultaneously that prevents Him from personally monitoring and dealing with each item as they happen?
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I agree to an extent. I think he COULD get involved in each item if he wanted to, but I think he chooses not to.
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And here we are right back to same discussion from earlier this week. When one becomes a GA/apostle/prophet, is one's free agency abdicated? I think not.
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And it strikes me as implausible to think he's involved in the detailed minutiae of my life, and yet not in his own church's. That is a logical argument. Quote:
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It seems people when contemplating God state, well he's not constrained by time and space as we are, thus he must not be constrained at all? Is that the only possibility? It may be the correct one, but I doubt it's logically the only one but because I am not aware of the possibilities, it becomes a fruitless exercise for me to assume one is preferable to another, just because one justifies a theological position. Please tell how and to what extent God traverses the universe/multiverse. If you don't know, then you don't if there are any limitations on what he can and cannot do.
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You have statements designed to console people that God is aware, what God desires to change and to affect, He can and will. That is the primary purpose of most of those declarations.
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LOL! I was thinking the very same thing. Particularly when Tex said, "I don't find it likely, but handicapping God's involvement in each detail of the universe is an extremely difficult task." I see a direct parallel between what he says there and finding it extremely difficult to determine what words he says to a prophet and what words a prophet says on his own.
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