Evening Glory, your vision of God as nothing but a force doesn't do it for me. I need something like the story in the original post - God as a fun entity playing a game, or even the traditional view of God as given by Christianity - God the Father.

Clearly God is beyond our comprehension, so why be amazed with how others view God? God has so many facets, that just about everyone's view has some degree of legitimacy.

If you look behind the deceptions, the lies made the last thousand years or perhaps the two last thousands years, you will see that my view of God is exactly what our ancestors believed, and even knew to be true.