As God indicated to Job, even though the world is God’s place and functions under his control, that does not mean that the cosmos is a reflection of God’s attributes (Job 38). The cosmos declares God’s glory, and his existence can be deduced in the observation of the world, but those truths do not indicate that his attributes are consistently worked out in what we call the “natural world.” Gravity is not just; rain falls on the righteous and unrighteous alike , even where no one lives (Job 38:25-27); the created world is not “fair.” If it were going to be consistently fair and just, there
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