"God allowed [Elisha's] young man to see the powers of his realm that interpenetrated and upheld all the visible normal reality around him." (p79 Hearing God, Willard)
"In him [Christ] all things hold together" Col 1:17
"[He is] sustaining all things by his word" Heb 1:3
"God accomodates himself to our fallenness." Greg Boyd - paraphrase
All of reality is held in place and empowered by God. All natural law is God's law, the word with which he continuously speaks the universe into being and by which he holds it in existence. But-the key is that he uses the reality thus created and sustained as a cradle and crucible of love. He gives all sentient beings the freedom to choose for or against him WHILE HE SUSTAINS THEM. He holds himself so faithfully to his word that the natural laws work as if he didn't exist, and those he holds together by the word of his power can choose as they will, even to his detriment.
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