
Do You Believe in Miracles? (And Can Such Belief Be Reasonable?) | Prof. W. Matthews Grant
The Thomistic Institute
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What Is a Secondary Cause?
The idea that in creating the world, god is some somehow a putting some sort of wall or force selld around it such that he could not do anything within the world outside order of natural causes. I i'm not sure there's a whole lot that can be said for for the ideai. And i think there's a passage from saint thomas that seds to it that it's worth a reading at link. Why? It's almost like there's a giant horse field around the system of natural causes, such that god, if he was going to create such a world, couldn't really do anythi to to apart from what they were producing.
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