If God Ever Stopped Intervening In Nature....

The Roman Catholic church teaches that God is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient.That God's providence provides for us. So yes God does act in and control each life.In his book "Thoughts in Solitude" Thomas Merton writes at page 45 when discussing the spiritual life;"It is the silence of our whole being in compunction and adoration before God in the habitual realization that He is everything and we are nothing, that He is the Center to which all things tend, and to Whom all our actions must be directed. That our life and strength proceed from Him, that both in life and in death we depend entirely on Him, that the whole course of our life is foreknown by Him and falls into the plan of His wise and merciful Providence;..."

That is an interesting point. Could it be that we can reject God's will by the use of our free will?

Would like to read that book. Have you ever read Merton?

Not if that is the way, in his love, he created mortals. Giving them the free will to accept him or to reject him.Of course the consequences are quite devastating, but, humanity seems unwilling to accept God. Hubris.

So it is logical that we can reject his will and live with the consequences.

God controls our life, but we have the free will to reject God, and then our providence is very different from the eternal salvation, God grants through his son Jesus, who gave his human life for the forgiveness of our sins.Basically the choices of each human is to accept God and his love for us or to reject God. The decision to accept or reject has consequences in the afterlife.This is obviously my belief and not a theological expert opinion. If you believe in the God I believe in, then these statements are not as radical as many of you may take them to be

I am not saying "reality" is what controls our decisions. I am saying that God through creation, that is continuing, provides us with the gifts necessary to fulfill his will and providence. Reality is not God, nor does reality, in my belief, control our decisions.The "misleading theological jargon" is fundamental to my faith.