In the Psalter, we are told that God alone
does wonders:
Blessed be the Lord God,
God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things. (Psa 72:18 | 1985 JPS Tanakh)
Notwithstanding, this does not be absolutized as if the person of God
alone does wonders. Indeed, God is said to work wonders through various agents.
Note Deut 34:10-12 where we learn that Yahweh did wondrous things through the agency of Moses:
And there arose not a
prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, In
all the signs and the wonders, which the Lord sent him to do in the land of
Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land, And in all that
mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all
Israel.
However, if one were to absolutise Psa 72:18, this would result in a contradiction
as Yahweh alone is said to do miraculous things. In one sense, it is true:
Yahweh is the efficient cause, but that does not mean that he uses agents as instrumental
causes of his actions. This should caution those who absolutise Isa 44:24 in a
like-manner (on this verse, see Is
Isaiah 44:24 in conflict with Latter-day Saint Theology?)
