No one does.You don't know. Got it.What does thought look like? What does potential look like?So if god isn't invisible, what does it look like and where is it?Why doesn't your invisible friend just drown us all again?Well at least you have " Some of the Why we need to be saved" understood; were messed up. God has built his case for Why we need him for sure. Left to ourselves, we would eventually destroy ourselves, because now we have the power to do it. The salvation of God is already a done deal, but only God can decide when it begins in earnest. But all humans will be with God in eternity , there is no such thing as " A lost human soul." That is a Christian myth.
For some reason, that I don't understand, God wanted us to be weak first; to be overcome by evil first; to experience sin and confusion first, and THEN be saved from it. I don't understand the pathology of God, but he wanted humans to be lost, only to then be found later.
I really can't figure it all out, its beyond me. But God is NOT leaving the salvation of mankind, up to mankind itself , God has taken that matter into his hands, and his only. He is not going to allow us to screw that up.
I think he promised not to do it that way again, but he has other options that can kill us all; like leaving us to govern ourselves, we'd be doomed for sure. God is not invisible , he just hides himself from humans.
The question you have to ask yourself is why would nature have a preference for us to exist and evolve and progress in consciousness?