tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9661811.post6713706288936854121..comments2024-02-18T12:18:45.788-05:00Comments on Sun and Shield: Does anything ever happen by chance? Nancey Murphy 2Martin LaBarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14629053725732957599noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9661811.post-21236733897758604582006-10-07T07:45:00.000-04:002006-10-07T07:45:00.000-04:00OK. I see your point. I guess we can't know how Go...OK. I see your point. I guess we can't know how God acts, which is one of the consequences of not being omniscient. He could act in our time, our outside of it, and still meet Murphy's conditions. Thanks.Martin LaBarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14629053725732957599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9661811.post-86782110084826689172006-10-06T23:56:00.000-04:002006-10-06T23:56:00.000-04:00Ah, but if God's actions are the unfolding of God'...Ah, but if God's actions are the unfolding of God's plan (via laws), how is that not still the result of a person' actions?<br /><br />Also, an omniscient God (particularly an atemporal one) can respond to prayers by awareness beforehand (or atemporally) of the prayer, thus working the response into the providential plan.<br /><br />The third argument just seems to me to be a denial of God's sovereignty in any remotely biblical sense. If God doesn't have the ability to be sovereign over evil, why worship and serve him? Why be sure he will win in the end? It's God's secure control over all things that makes out trust in him secure. This doesn't mean God is responsible for all evil in the same way the perpetrators of evil are, but it does mean that if God had truly wanted the plan of providence to include different things then God could have made it so.Jeremy Piercehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03441308872350317672noreply@blogger.com