Does God care for all humanity generally, or for each individual particularly?

The answer

St. Clement says, “His providence is in private, in public, and everywhere.”⁵⁴³ And the scholar Origen says, “And God takes care, not, as Celsus supposes, merely of the whole, but beyond the whole, in a special degree of every rational being. Nor will Providence ever abandon the whole.”⁵⁴⁴

Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty

Notes

⁵⁴³ St. Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies 7.2 (ANF 2:524).

⁵⁴⁴ Origen, Against Celsus 4.99 (ANF 4:541).

Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty, Catechism of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Volume 1, Books 1–3. First English Edition, 2023. Published by St. George Coptic Orthodox Church, Sporting, Alexandria, and Queen St. Mary & Prince Tadros Coptic Orthodox Church, South Brunswick, NJ. Copyright © 2023. Translation and Editing: Youth of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, Arabian Gulf, and Egypt.