Seeing God in the events of history
Taken from The Living God
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Which God Are We Talking About? 1
Seeing God in the events of history
Universities are wonderful places for having arguments yet staying friends afterwards. A colleague and I were swapping views on God. He liked the idea of God he found in the writings of the seventeenth-century scientist and philosopher Isaac Newton. I wasn’t so sure. We spent a happy half hour exploring the issues while we waited for a visiting lecturer to arrive – his train was late. My friend took the view that God made the world and then left it to its own devices – like a clockmaker constructing and winding up a watch and then letting it go on its own, an idea we’ll explore further in Chapter 4. ‘But your God doesn’t do anything!’ I protested. ‘That’s the way I like it!’ he replied...