Good point. I've always looked at the millions of innocents over the years and centuries, Christians and otherwise, who beseeched God to save them from one horror or another, and died anyway. For that matter, we've all known good and decent people, including loved ones in some cases, who died or were horribly harmed but "could have been saved" if only God intervened. There's WAY too much of that for me to believe that God is both loving AND personally involved in everything that happens here on Earth. One or the other, perhaps, but not both.

Not a popular viewpoint here, but it's not something I can't shake.

Good point. I've always looked at the millions of innocents over the years and centuries, Christians and otherwise, who beseeched God to save them from one horror or another, and died anyway. For that matter, we've all known good and decent people, including loved ones in some cases, who died or were horribly harmed but "could have been saved" if only God intervened. There's WAY too much of that for me to believe that God is both loving AND personally involved in everything that happens here on Earth. One or the other, perhaps, but not both.

Not a popular viewpoint here, but it's not something I can shake.