User blog comment:Kaestal/The Darkness' Soul Consumption Victims/@comment-26992577-20160125003019/@comment-26992577-20160125012437

That might have been unintentional side effect. Remember, she virtually did not know what a cheeseburger was shorty after she was freed.

God wrote the SPN books before Sam and Dean even "experienced it's content". He first wrote it and Sam and Dean got through the actual event. Maybe it was always God's intention to cancel the fight between Michael and Lucifer, but even if they were able to slightly alter their predicted path, it doesn't really sound like free will to me. All of the events around Sam and Dean could have been intended by God.

You made a point about hell, but God also allowed it that demons can break out of hell to bring havoc upon earth. He could have also completely isolated hell, but he didn't. Seems he want's demons to have also free will as well as the ability to reach out to the mortal plane.

Amara needed God's attention, she even tried to reach out to him via prayer but he just ignored. He certainly heard her but hey - let's better wait until she reached her full power. Those people in the church would have been still alive if he decided to show up.