Providence in our time
Hello,
I saw in several of your articles here that you claim that in our time there is no or almost no experimental providence, and indeed, according to all our tests, we see a world that operates with general causality and it is not appropriate to introduce divine providence into it [unless we say that the laws do not operate when we do not see, which is completely improbable, and you also proved from the GEM that there are no changes in nature even when we do not see]. And to the question of why it is not said that providence operates through human choices, you answered that an influence on human choice is also a change in nature.
But this is a correct claim only if we assume that providence intervenes to determine man’s choice, but if providence only exerts its power to sway the free man’s choice to be as it wishes, there is no change in nature here, and this allows us to accept that it was done [this still does not reconcile the Torah’s purposes that are not dependent on man, but it does put God, blessed be He, in His world].
I didn’t understand. Any such influence is an intervention in nature even if it only biases the choice and does not determine it. And I have already written several times that sporadic interventions are possible and cannot be ruled out. I don’t think there is anything to be gained here.
Just as you accept that there is a free will [of man] that is beyond the causality of nature, so I assume you have no problem accepting that there is an influence that is beyond the lawfulness of nature as long as it does not go against it [we would be nullifying it, which is a miracle], and since the actual choice is made following external reasons that attract the voter to choose them [such as advertisements that enter the subconscious, and other stimuli of various kinds], so too God, who is free, can give stronger weight to a certain side [for example: increasing the desire for lust in man] and can influence him to choose what he desires, and without interfering with the laws of nature, and without seeing anything unusual or miraculous.
I have a problem. Any influence beyond legality is against legality. There is no influence that is beyond and not against it. Without the influence, X would have happened, and the influence caused Y to happen. Otherwise, there is no influence.
It could of course be a hidden miracle, but there is no intervention that is not a miracle.
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