Hi Demi,

Thanks for sharing that. It is really well reasoned and explained. It sounds like a version of Deism to me, where God creates everything and then lets it all happen. But you say he does intervene sometimes. When, then, and why? Why hasn't he intervened to help a good-hearted person who is sick through no fault of their own? To extrapolate, why does he let things like the Nazi holocaust happen, or hurricanes and floods that kill thousands; why does he let babies be born into poverty and hunger, and die of starvation in a matter of days? If a God is there to intervene, it seems an utter mystery as to why he makes the choices he does. There is no one responsible, no moral lesson to learn, if a tornado kills a family. And if God let millions of people die in concentration camps, it's a very costly lesson for humanity, couldn't the lesson have been learned without so much loss of life? Why does someone have to die or suffer so that someone else can learn how to take responsibility for their actions?

Just being devil's advocate, so to speak.