God loves each creature as a child, and that love overshadows each creature throughout all [[time]] and [[eternity]]. Providence functions with regard to the total and deals with the function of any creature as such function is related to the total. Providential intervention with regard to any being is indicative of the importance of the function of that being as concerns the [[evolution]]ary growth of some total; such total may be the total [[race]], the total nation, the total planet, or even a higher total. It is the importance of the function of the creature that occasions providential intervention, not the importance of the creature as a person. | God loves each creature as a child, and that love overshadows each creature throughout all [[time]] and [[eternity]]. Providence functions with regard to the total and deals with the function of any creature as such function is related to the total. Providential intervention with regard to any being is indicative of the importance of the function of that being as concerns the [[evolution]]ary growth of some total; such total may be the total [[race]], the total nation, the total planet, or even a higher total. It is the importance of the function of the creature that occasions providential intervention, not the importance of the creature as a person. |