an event in which God is in such a relationship with Israel. Such events occur when they presently take place—it is true of the very “being” of an event that, to be an event, it has to take place in the present tense, it has to be presently occurring to be an event at all. God therefore has to create what is necessary for such a historical relationship with humankind to take place. To say that God creates time and space is to say that he creates the possibility of presently occurring events2—events
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