This chapter is titled 'God's Roles as Creator and Sustainer Are Less Different Than We Have Thought'. Chapter 13 is here. In this chapter, the author argues that Christians should avoid two extreme viewpoints. The first point is that Christians should not think like a deist. A deist is one who thinks that God exists but is not really involved in running the affairs of the world. Rather God left the world to run on the mechanism that has been 'wounded' into its system; so that it's the gravitational force, the law of motion etc that pull the universe along. The author argues that when the Scripture speaks of God as the creator in six days, he is talking about God's intimate involvement in the creation process. The other extreme is to insist that God is a micro-manager for the affairs even today. This is not so because creation process has ceased; in the sense that creation process is not going to be an everlasting process. Creation process has a beginning and an end. There is a teleological purpose of God for the created order. Well, the author argues that God is more of a sustainer after the first six days of creation.
The author's point is well taken. There is not so much of a controversy in this regard among the Bible believing Christians!
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