God Never Interferes - and Here's Why

In a truly loving universe, God will never interfere with our free will and decisions, dreadful though both may be on occasions.

That statement may be mere extrapolation of the facts and anecdotal implications, but on the Tenability Scale, it has to rank at least as high as a "9." That, allowing that one grants the overwhelming likelihood that we do, for sure, live in a genuinely loving universe.

Please don't wrestle too deeply with the Loving Universe concept, either, as it's pretty solid. The experiential evidence to support it is compelling.

Just ask any heart-invested Christian, anywhere in the world. What they'll strive to explain to you, in a variety of phrases, is that the secular world view is blind to its own humanity - and in particular, blind to the bounty of "confetti miracles" (in so many words) Earth's inhabitants encounter almost daily. Miracles needn't always be earth-shaking, either, to qualify as the real deal. I speak from experience.

Where every single Christian I know will take heated issue here, though, is on the God-never-interferes part.

But I don't see any other conclusion possible.

For example, there's nothing loving about any God turning a curious, if terrified and exhausted fleeing woman into a pillar of salt, for starters (as one Scriptural reference). And since when does harmless disobedience deserve such a harsh reprisal?

If the Book of Genesis story of Lot's wife is to have any meaning or merit, real or imagined, then her death had to result from some source other than God's wrath.

Explosive Impact Event of some sort, maybe?

God's wrath, as a concept, flies in the face of unconditional love - which is an absolute requirement in a loving universe, designed and ushered into existence by an incredibly smart, caring Creative Force ("God," loosely speaking). Rather, wrath is an overt expression of vengeance and even rage, neither of which are loving qualities and, in fact, are quite the reverse. And if God loves you more than me, then He's playing favorites - which can get scary. When might such a God turn on you, then, might you suppose - and under what frivolous circumstances?