I need a clarification. I don't want this taken wrong but it is one of the
things that bothered me and I don't understand how what you say is true. You
wrote:
> God has not created a Cosmos that is autonomous.
Is the planet Mars which circles the sun, do so in an autonomous fashion?
Are you, as an independent moral agent, responsible for your own sin,
autonomous?
Or does God push the planet around and force you to sin?
In the case of the planet, God set up the rules, maintains the rules, and lets
the planet operate, so to speak, autonomously as long as it follows the laws.
Due to chaotic perturbations in the orbit, it is impossible to say where Mars
will be 20 million years from now. It may be on this side of the sun or the
other side at that time. This would imply a certain level of autonomy in the
universe.
glenn
Foundation,Fall and Flood
http://members.gnn.com/GRMorton/dmd.htm