Some Things God Makes, Other Things God Orders
Augustine’s careful distinction in how he ascribes actions to God remains helpful still today
“Heresies are allowed to exist,” Augustine of Hippo once pointed out, “because divine providence brings—even from these sins—[a good] result. It is providence which both makes and orders the light, but providence does no more than merely order the darkness” (Enarrationes in Psalmos, 9:20).
Notice this careful distinction: God makes and orders what is go…
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