Rokartian States wrote:
Wouldn't it have been easier for God to make humans infallible at the moment of creation? Why does he have to punish us for his mistake? If God is omnipotent and omniscient, then he must not care enough to prevent such things from occuring. If God is omniscient and omnibenevolent, then he must not have the power to prevent our sins from occurring. If God is omnibenevolent and omnipotent, then he must not have had the foresight to know to make us infallible. If God is not omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent, then is he really a god?
Actually I tend to think of him more like a player on a game like Black and White. On that game, the player could control a lot of things as its "god," but not all. There were many times it couldn't do something, or was too late, or even botched something outright.
It doesn't match the Abrahamic views of god, but the game's Being is still way more powerful than the little humans under his watch.
I think whoever wrote that has got a pretty good idea, and (except for the Creature part and game-y stuff like picking people up in your hand) it seems to be much more in line with observable reality than the omni-everything model.