[quote=@Bishop] Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but the way I see it He has already decided how everyone lives and dies. If something good happens to you or anyone, it has already been decided from the start of everything. I see it as a big plan and if something is to happen that He has put within the plan, then it will happen. He is all powerful after all so time is irrelevant to Him so he knows how everything goes and how everything will end up. Now, if he was really kind he wouldn't do small acts of "good luck" to give us a smile, no, he would do something major for everyone good of heart to help them in their life. But the fact that "luck" also smiles on evil people definitely shows that he views all humans the same, no matter if they are good or evil. SO you can't really say that he is "kind" in your definition of kindness. I believe that the plan is already set and whatever is to be done or is in store for you , will be done. As I mentioned in an earlier post, praying to God is just foolish as you are asking Him to change His great plan. But praying and everything else was taken into consideration when he made His plan so I guess it matters somehow if He even decided to calculate how much you pray to Him in making His great plan. But the truth is, from what we see, here on Earth he views and treats all humans the same, not giving special quirks or winks to anyone. [/quote] That's predestination and only a small minority hold that belief. It's not about small good things happening to everyone, because fortune and misfortune smiles on good and evil alike (and this is talked about on the Bible). So the question becomes: How do you tell? Well, it's pretty tough to know what is a direct intervention—however, according to the Bible, God is ultimately the source of all good things, so it's ultimately from him one way or another. There's no easy way to tell if he directly changed the situation in your favor, but probability sometimes helps. This paragraph relies on the assumption of predestination, so I don't have much else to respond with other than that's not what Christian theology typically states. Some extreme Calvinist will lean that way, but I have the same problem with that belief that you do.