Oh my, but I too, have felt that guiding hand in my life. So I have no doubt whatever that God can act within the physical realm of created nature (of which I am a part) if He so wills it. In short, He has "tweaked" me, more than a few times. On at least one occasion, He may have saved my life.
Newton called his God Pantocrator (which means "ruler of all that there is") "the Lord of Life with His creatures." He presumably is not in the world of His Creation, but ineffably interfaces with it, at Will, via what Newton called the sensorium Dei. This sensorium suggests to my mind a sort of universal field that mediates divine Presence.
But then again, God doesn't need anything like a field to facilitate His acts. Or so it seems to me. Yet perhaps Newton, being a scientist, simply needed to think and speak in such terms.
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He was and was here in the flesh. Nevertheless, this world is not His permanent residence.
"but ineffably interfaces with it, at Will, via what Newton called the sensorium Dei. This sensorium suggests to my mind a sort of universal field that mediates divine Presence. But then again, God doesn't need anything like a field to facilitate His acts. Or so it seems to me. Yet perhaps Newton, being a scientist, simply needed to think and speak in such terms."
No function is possible w/o some underlying physics to provide for it's realization. That's something Newton understood.