Page |122 of dependence upon God for what one is, pedagogical correction, just punishment However, long one exists.“ A human for sin, the necessary testing of one’s being therefore depends upon God for faith, or simply a beneficial form of more than the fact of his or her birth: he sympathy with God’s own suffering on or she remains dependent upon God in the cross. For both the general reasons the same way ever after. God’s creation just mentioned—because of its holism of the world in general is simply not and temporal inclusiveness--belief in temporally indexed; it is no more closely God as the creator of the world associated with the beginning of things encourages love, gratitude, and trust than with what comes later. A toward God, and toward the world that preoccupation with temporal origins God brings about, as constant Christian therefore commonly drops out of dispositions, basic Christian attitudes of Christian accounts of creation: the world wide-ranging applicability, whatever is just as dependent upon God for its might be going on in one’s life. existence whether tt h as a beginning or Social Connectedness and Invisibility always exists.”” Belief in God’s creation of the world for these reasons blurs into The same all-inclusive causal belief in God’s supportive maintenance dependence upon God at all times is of it at every point in time. what ensures individuals are never left . ops on their own, never abandoned to their Also enabling belief in God as ae a , own devices. Christian theologians creator to form a general backdrop to all 4 . 5, ; : (especially in the Protestant tradition) one’s experience—to be relevant on . . . usually develop the psychological every occasion as a universally marae 3 4 : . . implications of this in terms of avoiding applicable worldview--is the fact that ; ; . . either anxious or arrogant self- God is thought to be responsible as xiv . . . concern.” According to this theology, creator for the whole of what happens in , : ; on