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Originally Posted by armourbearer  I've never had reason to doubt that extraordinary providence may dispense with means and still produce a result which is in accord with the nature of second causes. This is in fact what occurs in all the miracles recorded in Scripture. The blind man was not healed by ordinary means, but his new found ability was undoubtedly that which is called the power of sight. |
Rev. Winzer,
First: that is not what the confession says. It says that God may work
"against" second causes. That means that they are not "in accord with the nature of second causes."
Second: Scripture records incidents that back up the Confession's formulation in 6.3 - the sun moving backward, the dead rising, etc. These are not the result of, or in accord with second causes, but "
without, above, and against" them.
I fail to see how pointing out a grammatical inconsistency does any violence to the Confession. A strained reading does, however.