Benevolent Creator God?

[LadyForCamus]

@vulcanlogician that seems a reasonable position as well. cheers

@LadyForCamus to answer how can you differentiate between your own mind in action and a god acting upon you: Speaking of my inner self,
If a situation outside of myself happens, I look for a cause. I look for natural causes within reason, and if I can't find one, look for unnatural ones within reason.

A few follow-up questions, if you would be so kind to oblige:

1. How do you rule out all possible natural causes, including potential natural causes that you aren’t aware of yet? And, what is the difference between an unnatural cause “within reason” versus an unreasonable unnatural cause? How do you make that distinction?

2. Is there a reason you don’t stop at “I don’t know the cause at this time,” when you have an experience you can’t think of a natural explanation for? I hope that doesn’t come across as condescending, btw. I don’t mean it as such. I have had several experiences in my life that I similarly have no natural explanation for, and back when I was far less skeptical about that sort of thing I attributed the cause to some force or “spirit.” Twenty years later, I’ve realized that I don’t actually have any evidence of such a thing as “the supernatural” (or even a clear definition of it for that matter), so I say, “I don’t know what that was and I probably never will.” It is annoying as fuck, not having an explanation, don’t get me wrong. But I know I can’t make a rational inference without supporting evidence, and being rational is very important to me.

Both of those reasons are tainted by my biases and knowledge limits.

Yours and everyone else’s, atheist and theist alike. I appreciate your awareness and willingness to admit it.