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Hugh Rice explains why trust in God don't need to be visible as an odd or irrational trust, yet could be a typical extension of our usual methods of pondering. He means that we should always think about God in an summary manner, and he bargains a delightful account of the connection among God and goodness.
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But, if that is the way you acquire the belief that it is raining, I have not informed you of the fact. I imagine, then, that we will have come close enough to saying that God can inform, 10 For a detailed and penetrating discussion see Nicholas Wolterstorff, Divine Discourse: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim that God Speaks (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995). 78 if we can say that it is possible for him to create beliefs in people without relying on their making inferences. And there does not seem to be any problem of principle here.
We may think that mere obedience is a good thing in so far as it manifests trust that the person commanding knows best. But the good involved in that case is the good of trust, not the good of obedience. And it is not what is envisaged in the present account. That account does not envisage our trusting God to know what is best, and our obeying him because we think that his command is given on the basis of that knowledge of what is best. On the contrary: the account envisages that he may have no such reason; so, in so far as we are not deceived, our obedience will not be based on any such trust.
The first type of case is where people do things because of their knowledge of what is good. The second type of case is where what happens does so, indeed, because it is good that it should, but it is brought about because of the way the world was created. In both cases it might be thought that what happens is too indirectly connected with the goodness of it to constitute God's acting in the world. But it is easy enough to take care of this. We can say instead that we have a case of God's acting in the world whenever something happens in the world directly because it is good.