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For First Cause (God) to accomplish the big picture, involves one, or a combination, of three things: 1) Intimate involvement and control of every detail 2) Detailed characterization of every first effect created 3) Flying by the seat of his pants, correcting things outside of his control.Ok let me try to be more clear, God does not care if I brush my teeth everyday, He is not causing me to do that. He would very much care if I was working on a cure for cancer and He wanted me to be successful because of the good it would do in the world, under those circumstances He might very well cause me to do some things that I would not have thought about doing myself. Simply God is involved in the BIG picture.
Number 3 is heresy. Number 2 is deism. Number 1 is Biblical.
Number 3 is illogical. Number 2 at least admits to cause and effect, but is illogical philosophically, and unBiblical. Number 1 is both logical and Biblical.
Number 3 claims God is not omnipotent, claiming that God is subject to the vagaries of chance, and it admits to the rule of chance, which is logically self-contradictory.
Number 2 ignores that to God, time is immaterial, and ignores several of the logically necessary attributes of God which demand that he is involved in every detail.
Number 1 is right.
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