The Tension of God's Involvement/Intervention within Theistic Evolution

[Vinnie]

@Miekhie

I have no problem with God as prime mover. However the view that that God is upholding the creation at every instant meaning that God is somehow responsible for the goodness and wickedness that happened. I think the view that God is able to passively upholding the creation with all the natural laws fits more with the wickedness that happened. The flood was the example of this where God had to intervene periodically whenever His creation had gone astray away for His original plan for creation.

I made a new thread a few days ago outlining more specifically what it means for God to be the prime mover.

Primary and Secondary Causes, God through (not vs) Nature, and Gaps are scraps. (Aristotle and Aquinas and Cosmological arguments)

Vinnie, I appreciate the time you took to answer my questions and I’m grateful for your explanation between linear and hierarchical causes. Change regarding Potentiality and actuality reminds me a lot of my physics class, discussing potential and kinetic energy. It gives me a more robust understanding of the Prime Mover argument. In my case, I’m only trying to understand the relationship to God and His natural world. If your argument is sound, then I would agree that there would be an overfl…

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