"In the name of God and this suffering population, whose cries reach to the heavens more tumultuous each day, I beg you, I beseech you, I order you, in the name of God, cease the repression," he said in his final sermon.
If God ceased his constant creation, all things would immediately cease to exist.
But when that is the case, it would seem that God thereby ceases to be a being who is either an appropriate object of religious attitudes, or a ground for believing that fundamental human hopes are not in vain.
God never ceases reaching out to the world in love and thus our call is never done as long as the world has not heard of God's love for all.
Grounds argues that according to Hartshorne God would cease to be if the world ceased to exist.
"God has ceased to be British, and Providence no longer smiles," she wrote, undeniably, though to someone of my generation and background it also seemed that she underestimated the strength of an identity that had taken nearly three centuries to accumulate: Coronation Street as well the British Museum, Penguin Books, free orange juice, the Queen Mary, Big Ben, the Beano as well as the Somme.
And, clearly, it is not logically possible for God to cease to be absolutely perfect.
4 As they heard this welcome and altogether unexpected good news, the captive women hailed Alexander as a god and ceased from their wailing.
Although he also declared that Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world, as an aside he argued that only nations that turned away from the Judeo-Christian god have ceased to exist.
