Chapter Plodding (No. 6): The Reluctant Evangelist

We are in chapter five of Coekin's book, The Reluctant Evangelist. I really loved this chapter because Coekin spends a few moments working through a doctrine of God that is often neglected: the doctrine of divine simplicity. We also get a heightened sense of God's sovereignty. Here are a few key takeaways from this chapter:
"God's centre is everywhere but his circumference is nowhere" (55)
All of God's being is "personally present in His simplicity". (55)
God is His attributes. He does not divide Himself.
"Nothing and nowhere in the universe exists except by God's personal presence to sustain and govern it." (55)
Since God is everywhere "our most private gossip, hidden jealousy, secret lusts, and forgotten cruelty- all of these are said, thought and done permanently in his presence." (56)
"The distance between us and maggots is smaller than the difference between God and us." (57)
God "previously arranged for this particular giant fish [the fish that swallowed Jonah] to take this particular gulp of water in this particular spot in the sea at this particular moment in history." (59)

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