‘I think that God set the Universe up to run according to Law; people may interfere...Sometimes they’re just in the way...’
a perfect encapsulation of the deist philosophy; the creator creates, and then moves on to somewhere else....
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I don’t think it’s possible for God to ‘move on’.
He’s in and through everything; everything IS God, nearer than hands and feet, closer than breathing, etc.
We live and have our being IN Him.
Our failures lie simply in not recognizing this, and by not recognizing it, abusing it.