I present God as a 'tough-love God for good reason. If He were ever-loving,caring and protective, we would never learn to face challenges and develop properly. After all, we have a piece of His brain to work with. We can open up the subject of the problem of evil on this site, and dig deeper, if you wish.-Interesting, a panentheistic god with somewhat personal attributes? -I wish I could read the tea leaves this well. again tongue in cheek