If he was in total control, then we wouldn't have free will. We would not be thinking individuals at all, we'd be robots. In that case, there would be no need for us to engage in ANY inquiry or to have any beliefs. It wouldn't matter.

I do think of God as omnipresent, but I do not think of God as intervening in human affairs in a selective or prejudicial manner. It's human beings who intervene in a selective and prejudicial manner, in my opinion, because we DO have free will.

I think everyone is capable of receiving some divine inspiration. The spiritual writings that are really impressive are those which contain a great deal of it, and those which spread love, not fear. Those which unite, rather than dividing.