| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - s, and Spinoza] It soon became apparent that, since the universe was an entirely law-governed, self-contained, and self-sustaining machine, that an active, living, creating, and redeeming God of the Old and New Testament would either have to be redefined (by being subsumed into nature via pantheism), relieved of the power to control or sustain His creation (thereupon standing outside of nature as
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