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God 's View Of God

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From the beginning to the end of time God has been, is, and will be actively involved with His creation. It is part of God’s nature to have care and compassion for what He has made. Specifically, for the purpose of this paper we will look at God’s guidance in the interactions of His prized creation: man. “The Lord looks from heaven; He sees all the sons of men; from His dwelling place He looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, He who fashions the hearts of them all, He who understands all their works” (Ps. 33:13-15).

God, by His power, created the world and everything in it. According to deists that is the end of the story. The classical comparison of God with the clockmaker says, “God wound up the clock of the world once and for all at the beginning, so that it now proceeds as world history without the need for His further involvement.” As far as Deists are concerned, God is no longer plays an active role in guiding His creation. Towns further clarifies the Deist’s view point, “He has imparted to His creatures certain properties, placed them under His invariable laws, and left them to work out their destiny by their own powers.” This is not the view of God we learn from the Bible.

The Bible declares God’s involvement in creation (Gen. 1:1; Ps. 102:25; Rom. 1:20; Col. 1:16; Heb. 11:3), but he does not stop there. In the first chapters of Genesis, God gives commands to take care of the land, then He institutes sacrifices to make atonement for sin, the whole time

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