The difficulty is that in order for God to exercise full providence over the world, he needs to know as creator how the decisions and actions of creatures with libertarian freedom will go.
The preconditions needed to encourage us to trade are provided not by providence but by government – government and the security it brings.
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So what God needs, for the purposes of providence, is not just knowledge about what will happen, but also knowledge about what could happen and what would happen in certain circumstances.
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The need to open our doors to providence.
As for the human soul's fate after death, Mendelssohn appeals to divine goodness and providence, which perhaps explains why, following the publication of the Phaedo, he finds himself needing to revisit the proofs for God's existence.
At some point doesn't God need to step into our spacetime to make himself known in some manner -- say through prayer, providence, or miracles?
