Blameless in Abaddon by Morrow James 1947-

Author:Morrow, James, 1947- [Morrow, James, 1947-]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: God
Publisher: New York : Harcourt Brace & Co.
Published: 1996-05-19T04:00:00+00:00

read my biography, Mr. Candle. 'Where were you when I laid the Earth's foundations?' God asked me, rhetorically. 'Have you descended to the springs of the sea or walked in the unfathomable deep? Have you visited the storehouse of the snow or seen the arsenal where hail is kept?' Many years later, I realized He wasn't just trying to humble me. He was reminding me that the universe exists. For reasons known only to Himself, a finite set of law-abiding realities occupies time and space. Most of these realities are harmless, beautiful even, but a few of them—storms, gravity, plate tectonics, microorganisms, Behemoth, Leviathan— can have undesirable side effects. This doesn't mean He intended such results, nor does it mean He never suspended His own rules. Occasionally, as the school bus started to hurtle over the cliff, the pre-coma God would yank it back. Sometimes He would shrink the tumor or cancel the cyclone. But whenever He did so, He inevitably absorbed a piece of the cosmos back into Himself—and if He'd kept at it, intervention after intervention, the differentiated universe would have disappeared altogether, leaving Him alone again, back on square one."

"Okay, okay, but what's the answer to the ontological defense?" asked Martin.

"The answer?" I he answer.

Job sighed profoundly. He coughed up a wad of mucus interlaced with blood and spat it onto the heap. "I don't know of any," he said at last. "Do you?" he asked Augustine.

"There isn't one."

A sharp pain tore through Martin's torso. He felt as if a wild horse had just kicked him in the tits. "No answer?" he rasped, glowering at Augustine and rising from the picnic cooler. 'Wo answer? You mean I traveled two hundred miles up a stinking river, got bitten by ten dozen monster mosquitoes, and listened to your stupid harangues against the Pelagians and whatnot just so I could be told there's no answer: '!"

"You're surprised, aren't you?" said Augustine. "You're

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