and more importantly to Moses and David and Paul and, of course, to Jesus himself in their times. It would be plausible but nonetheless rash to suppose that the character of God’s activity now is the same as it has always been, though this is an assumption made by deism. It is one of the important areas of conflict between deism and Christian theism, as we shall see in the next chapter. But it would be unwise to conclude that, because God does not act miraculously now, he can never have done so.
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