Theodorus VanderGroe on God as the supreme, independent cause of all things

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He particularly, as the original and supreme cause, completely governs and directs His creature in harmony with His will, so that both in body and soul, the creature will function in dependence upon God, in and through God, and according to the will of God. According to His counsel and sovereign will, He is the sole operator in the creature, since there is not even the least power in the creature to resist this will of God.

Both reason and the Holy Scriptures reveal very clearly that there is such divine cooperation in all creatures that move and are active. Even reason affirms that if God were not to cooperate in His creatures, they in their motions and activities would then be independent from God. The notion of such independence is utterly absurd and absolutely impossible, for no one is independent and no one functions independently. Only God is independent, for He is not superseded by anyone. ...

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