God in the chaos: entropy-like forces in everyday life
"And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire."-Luke 3:9
One of my themes is that just because the causality of things can be understood and explained, does not mean that God is still not ultimately responsible for them just the same. I found an example while checking the book of Habakuk to see if it said what I thought, before writing the short note inspired by it, infra, earlier. In Habakuk God talks about how the remnants of all the different nations conquered by the nation that will conquer Israel, will eye the great horde of spoils the conqueror amassed, and feel thirst for vengeance, and come to destroy the conqueror. In Ch. 2 - "Woe to him that increaseth what is not his!" (v.6) and "Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein." (v.8). God explains how he will bring something to pass, and this time it is along lines of causality cognizable by us people, with acts having their ordinary forseeable consequences - nonetheless all things are in the hands of God from the very start, just the same.
It is no diminution of God to have you understand his means.
posted by amichael @ 18:16
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