God asks 'Do the waters hide themselves when the deep freezes, or do the waters have life when they harden?' These cryptic questions suggest that the transformation of water into ice raises questions about the nature of the water and its hidden character. The question whether waters 'hide themselves' and whether frozen water has 'life' suggests philosophical depth to divine action in natural phenomena. The questions suggest that divine action in nature involves mysteries and paradoxes not fully comprehensible to human reason. The accumulation of questions about natural phenomena increasingly establishes that even ordinary natural processes involve depths of mystery and divine action beyond human comprehension. If rain falling and water freezing involve such mystery, how much more mysterious must be divine action in relation to human suffering and moral order?

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