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And then when they all believe, you change the rules because you accidentally spawned to many people.

God: "I can only save some of you!"

People: "How many?"

God: "Twelve.."

People: "Twelve?!? But there are many more of us"

God: "Times 12..."

People: "144?!? But there are still many more!"

God:"... thousand."

People "Oh lord, I'm one of those 144000, right?"

God: "Of course you are my dear".

Other people:"...but you already saved more than 144000 before we were even born?"

God:" yeah well, just believe me OK?"

I mean, the trolley obviously can't fit under the bridge, so this seems like a mass murder/suicide scenario.

What if they accept that I'm the creator of the situation but I still don't save them as I promised?

No no no, doesn't stop there.

Then you created a business, run by your most....devout... followers, they'll manage the business.

You pay them to collect money for you, and um, teach them the ways and make sure they bring their families and friends in.

You tell them they are all horrible people who will suffer in eternity unless they worship you and thank you that they were born.

Then your managers, they meet with all your followers and ~~shake them down~~ tell them how important it is to fund the business.

It's a very complex thing really being the creator of the universe and having to have people start a business to fund..um...worshiping you....

When a creator does it, the word is "ineffable". Just like how when I'm rich, I'll become eccentric.

For this to be more accurate you need to take the "God" out of the image entirely.

Of course that is not something I could judge by myself. You will have to ask the people in the situation and see what they will answer of their own free will.

Substitute the trolley for a tornado, the tracks for homes, the deity killing randomly with said tornado, and the survivors thanking deity for their survival (and their neighbors’ deaths).

Not a good analogy? Of course it isn’t. God doesn’t exist, and if he does, he’s perfectly happy killing you and destroying your family for no reason whatsoever, and your neighbors will thank him for doing so.

Evil is a dumb term. The word they are looking for is "responsible".

And then here comes Cormac McCarthy (RIP) to shit all over your idea of some benevolent god, to give you a real sense of how chaotically brutal the reality of life actually is, to question autonomy and the very notion of free-will, and to maybe, as a side-effect of literature, to make you think twice about everything you've assumed about the world.

Gonna miss that guy.

I don't know why the Nobel asswipes didn't give him the recognition he deserved.

My guess is that his work was too "American" for their tastes.

In this situation, I could see it being done in order to announce that you have the power to alter reality on a whim, and really need people to get with the program.

So I would say it would depend on your other intentions, as if you have the creative power that is chested, you could easily bring someone back to life and place them in another scenario until they actually understand what you're trying to tell them.

I don't have enough information to ascertain whether or not the omnipotent being is evil or just a prankster.

You're not mysterious! You're just a jerk!

I feel like that would make me some edgy child, messing around with legos or playdough.

I mean, if evil always shoots itself in the foot, this guy's off to a good start. Why would you get them to agree to blame you for putting them there, and then free them? Chaotic stupid.

ITT: A collectively poor understanding of Christian theology