When I work or act to build a house, like the action of doing that is an action that's proper to human nature and human power, right?

It's a work that I can do as a human or any human could potentially do, right?

So when I do that, I mean, I'm the one that's acting to build, right?

I'm fully present, so to speak, in the action of building this house.

And when I build the house, the house in some way probably reflects, you know, something about me.

Like I put some of my interests and my character and eccentricity into the house that I built, right?

So to make the analogy to God or in the world, like like the house is the effect of the work the work

is the energy that i use the action that i did to build the house i as a person am distinct from the

action of building the house even though i'm fully present in the act of building the house

and i build a building a house. And I build a,

building a house is something proper to human nature.

So the nature that I have as the person J is manifested,

you could say,

through the action of building the house.

But neither the house nor the action define my nature or my person.

They just kind of show it or demonstrate it or reflect it, so to speak.

So in the same way, God is fully present in the action of creating the world. It's a demonstration

of divine power to act to create. And the action of creating is different, distinct, from the action

of God's eternal glory or the manifestation

of his eternal love or his divine foreknowledge. There are all different things. God is fully

present in every one of his acts, but his acts are not absolutely, strictly speaking, all

identical. And so the world is a created effect that the action of creating the world caused.

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