This was a good article. But it presents a problem for me. As you know, I don't believe in a God that goes around picking winners and losers, working miracles at some times and not at others. Yet people experience certain moments as miraculous, just the same. Is there no place for the miraculous in my system? Well, of you are so inclined, you can be process-oriented and believe in miracles of the sort defined above. I maintain that God doesn't have omnipotence as classically conceived. But to say God is all-powerful is not to say God is powerless. God's power is to EMPOWER. God gives both a goal (initial ideal aim) and the power to complete that goal. But control of power is in the hands of the other. There is a long line of events that must be put in place and must choose correctly to bring about a particular goal. Sometimes God tries but cannot bring about the best possible event, because the things of the world do not respond fully to God's influence. Further, the original goal is conditioned by the past choices of the world. God can't create an initial aim completely divorced from the past.
Simply put God ALWAYS tries to bring about the result. But the world doesn't always do its part. I address this in more detail in my unpublished book on the Holy Spirit. I may put that up online soon.
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