He understands the sole activity of God is to create and sustain the world. '...the whole of the universe reveals God to people and God's activity is present, sustaining every part of the universe, since God causes the whole universe to exist.'
Wiles, then, is suggesting a more fundamental account of God's immanence (presence in the world). God does not just randomly intervene but sustains the world. Every law of nature, etc, reveals God to us as God is within sustaining it, and so causing it to exist. This is a deist approach.
However, Wiles himself rejected this criticism, saying that miracles need to be understood symbolically in a more spiritual way. Argues that what matters, even for resurrection, that just as we read the idea of Jesus sitting on the right hand of God symbolically, so we should think of miracles.
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