Okay, Dianavan, you are quite correct that AS the creator of the game I described I am not all-powerful within the context of the game, which is what makes the game interesting for me. But...I exist outside of the context of the game I made...and from my point of view it IS just a game. I could choose not even to play the game or to turn it off, thus ending it! That's up to me. If I want to see the game play itself out then I will not turn it off. Therefore, although I am potentially all-powerful in regards to the game, that doesn't mean that I let the fact that I am all-powerful get in the way of the game, assuming I am content to let the game play itself out.

To be all-powerful does not necessarily mean that you use that power to interfere in the free will of beings less powerful. In fact, if you love those beings, you don't do that at all, you let them work out their own destiny.

This is true of good parents in regards to their children also...in a general sense (excepting that a good parent will intervene to protect a child if it is truly necessary).

To be all-powerful is not to feel emotionally threatened by allowing others to exercise their own power in their own fashion.

Thus God is really quite democratic in nature. (In my opinion.) God is not afraid. Those who are afraid will always use what power they have to restrict the activities of other potentially free beings.

People would do well to follow this example and stop trying to trample on other people's sovereignty in order to feel "safe". Real power is self-mastery, not mastery of others. He who is really all-powerful will not in the least attempt to control others.