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Aaargh! I wrote a good response and my computer froze up trying to get it online.He does say it though.
Oh I’m not opposed to the idea of final consequence or rewards at the end of life, or even the potential for intervention. But let’s face it intervention is not what we get. God has dropped the kids off at summer camp, and until he returns at the end you are on your own sink or swim.
Your idea of God doesn't seem to me to include the fact of his omnipotence. He is absolutely First Cause, "in whom we live and breathe and have our being". One way this is put is to say that he is the essence of reality, though to some that might suggest pantheism. As such, he is therefore intimately involved in everything.
To me the same concept informs all naturalism; it is not of itself merely natural —it is all miracle, being made and upheld by God. 'Intervention', to me, is a fiction, unless all one means is the same as what they mean by 'miracle': just unusual, by apparently sudden cause instead of by the usual chain of causation.
Either way, to say there is no intervention, is a subjective analysis of what happens.
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