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Here is where one of my unique perceptions about God comes into play. Having done text RP on MU*s for a couple years, I either got brain damage from monitor radiation or hit upon a really good idea of what the universe is.
Life, the Universe, and Everything, as Douglas Adams would put it, is just one gigundous RP MU*. Before you jump to conclusions about my sanity, hear this reasoning. When you singlehandedly create a fictitious world, through writing, or coding, or whatever, that creation really becomes your baby. You love absolutely and smite anyone who tried to tamper with it. I am sure the admin here can sympathize. Also, when you create such a work, you put a little bit of yourself into it. Everything in your world came from you and is merely an distorted fragment of yourself. In this way, you would sort of be omnipresent, a little piece of you would be in every nook and cranny of your universe. Because it all comes from you, in a way, you are omniscient about your world; you know everything there is to know; you wrote the rules. Well, you wrote the rules, so that makes you ominpotent doesn't it? You want something to happen, you get to write the rules in such a way as it has to happen sooner or later. Sometimes, to help express yourself, you make a character like you - "in your image" you might say. As the work continuous to grow, it begins to take a life of its own, as any author would tell you, the characters, in a way, take over and start writing their own stories. But, in a book, it is only in way. However, having created your world, you make it interactive, make it, say, a MU*, you still have all the power you had before, but you now allow real free will in the form of players. The characters really DO have a life of their own. So, in my mind. The universe is the 'fictional creation' of God. Our souls are the players, and we are, as Shakespeare said, but actors upon an immense stage, so big we don't even know it to be one.
Peace be with you,
G
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