X2M.215 — Occasionalism: Builder of God’s City
The city rises not by human ingenuity but by divine causality. To confess occasionalism is to affirm that God alone is the immediate cause of all things.¹ This track unfolds the paradox: though Adam and Eve sought autonomy through knowledge of good and evil, the true city is constructed not by autonomous perception but by the immediacy of God’s presence. The “frame carpenter” of Proverbs 8 is no delegate but the Master Himself, who frames our reference points and continually recreates us in His likeness.²
The fall distorted vision, substituting the law of nature for the immediacy of divine agency.³ Human consciousness, once oriented to the uncreated light, became bound to perception — frozen particles rather than waves of living communion. Yet the gospel insists that God renews creation moment by moment, updating the firmware of human consciousness through His Word and Spirit. Continuous creation becomes the architecture of the City of God, its foundation not in law or perception but in Christ who makes all things new.
Narratively, this is David betrayed in Ziph, yet seeing light flash forth from darkness. It is Paul counting all things loss that he might gain Christ. It is the pilgrim city rising in the wilderness as God Himself dwells with His people. Worship becomes the blueprint: Psalm 66, with its cadence of praise through fire and water into wide-open place, becomes the scaffolding of God’s building project.⁴
The soundscape of Occasionalism layers construction and collapse, distortion and renewal, until divine causality breaks through. This is no human monument but the City whose builder and maker is God (Heb. 11:10). The occasion itself — every moment of hearing, every pulse of sound — is seized by the One who alone can build.
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¹ Jonathan Edwards, continuous creation and occasionalism: God as sole causal factor in the universe .
² Proverbs 8:30; cf. C.Z. Rogers, “The Meaning and Significance of אָמוֹן in Prov 8, 30.”
³ Genesis 3:9, 22–24; Isa. 46:8–10.
⁴ Psalm 66 (paraphrased in notes), Micah 2:1–13, Heb. 11:10.
