Because God interacts with the changing universe, God is changeable (that is to say, God is affected by the actions that take place in the universe) over the course of time.Some also call this "theocosmocentrism" to emphasize that God has always been related to some world or another. God contains the universe but is not identical with it ( panentheism, not pantheism or pandeism).To say it another way, God has a will in everything, but not everything that occurs is God's will. God cannot totally control any series of events or any individual, but God influences the creaturely exercise of this universal free will by offering possibilities. Self-determination characterizes everything in the universe, not just human beings. The universe is characterized by process and change carried out by the agents of free will.All experience (male, female, atomic, and botanical) is important and contributes to the ongoing and interrelated process of reality. These events have both a physical and mental aspect. Reality is not made up of material substances that endure through time, but serially-ordered events, which are experiential in nature. "Persuasion" in the causal sense means that God does not exert unilateral control. Process theologians interpret the classical doctrine of omnipotence as involving force, and suggest instead a forbearance in divine power. The divine has a power of persuasion rather than coercion.
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