One thing, one of the primary things, we should be desiring is in the first petition of the Lord’s Prayer, “Hallowed be thy name!” – I want you to be renowned. (If I owned a Lamborghini, I would be jealous for its brand. )
Dale…Thanks…love of among all God’s children, close and extended and way extended family is I think one of God’s bottom lines. I frequently change the verses around in the Lord’s Prayer: thy kingdom come, thy will be done, hallowed be thy name.
I think that genetic mutations are more in line with indirect rather than special creation. I don’t think God created specific mutations for specific purposes. Rather those mutation occurred through a God given set of natural laws and processes. Again, who knows for sure but I don’t think God is bothered about our curiosity to know Him.
And the import of Psalm 8:4 is even greater, not only because of the vastness of the size of the universe, but also because of the vastness of its antiquity.
Note that in the first three petitions, God is subject, not the petitioner, and are irrespective of the individual (but they do reflect the petitioner’s heart’s desires).
Klax
(The only thing that matters is faith expressed in love.)
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The only intervention we’ve seen by God for a while now is through other people. As to what people wouldn’t have done for good without belief in Him is hard to quantify. Not so for ill.
Their timing and placing, including the sequence of their timing and placing, is not merely ‘through other people.’ It is through events and the meaning infused by their timing and placings, not just the people, that we see God’s providential intervention.
(The timing of the bank error, including its mailing and Maggie’s getting it, its placing, was part of God’s providence. And it has nothing to do with cold reading.)
Klax
(The only thing that matters is faith expressed in love.)
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Jesse Washington was lynched - a bit of an understatement - in God’s providence by the good Christian folk of Waco. The small sea urchin on my desk by God’s providence that I picked up by God’s providence on a Norfolk beach by God’s providence whilst staying by God’s providence in my sister-in-law’s caravan by God’s providence…