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<blockquote data-quote="hedrick" data-source="post: 74359919" data-attributes="member: 239032"><p>I don't think our tradition envisions God as controlling what goes on at a detailed level. He has goals, and he will accomplish them in the long run, but that doesn't mean that he plans everything that happens. This isn't so much a rejection of omnipotence as skepticism about the concept of God on which the concept of omnipotence is implicitly based: God as an agent just like humans except bigger and better.</p><p></p><p>Remember that God's way of dealing with sin wasn't what you'd expect from a typical omnipotent ruler: It was the cross.</p><p></p><p>Of course mainline churches such as mine (PCUSA) and the ELCA have a mix of theologies. I think my response speaks for distinctively PCUSA theologians, but there are plenty of more traditional people in our churches. Indeed a substantial number of our pastors hold fairly traditional Calvinist theology.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hedrick, post: 74359919, member: 239032"] I don't think our tradition envisions God as controlling what goes on at a detailed level. He has goals, and he will accomplish them in the long run, but that doesn't mean that he plans everything that happens. This isn't so much a rejection of omnipotence as skepticism about the concept of God on which the concept of omnipotence is implicitly based: God as an agent just like humans except bigger and better. Remember that God's way of dealing with sin wasn't what you'd expect from a typical omnipotent ruler: It was the cross. Of course mainline churches such as mine (PCUSA) and the ELCA have a mix of theologies. I think my response speaks for distinctively PCUSA theologians, but there are plenty of more traditional people in our churches. Indeed a substantial number of our pastors hold fairly traditional Calvinist theology. [/QUOTE]
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