As a worldbuilding/fiction device, it’s a hell of a lot better - genuine-looking limitations are always more convincing than “completely fantastical bullshit that just can’t do any damn thing that you’d expect, for increasingly suspicious reasons”, or that keeps switching capabilities after what the story/case needs. They’re major alarm bells for not only being made up, but poorly.
It isn’t the shtick for the major monotheistic religions, though. That wouldn’t be very omnipotent or omniscient.
Seeing is not the same as understanding.
Maybe humans like suffering and dying. They all seem to do it, so they must like it.
I like this idea of an all powerful toddler god
The “toddler god” idea has a flaw; he’d have tantrums.
Like flooding the entire earth?
As a worldbuilding/fiction device, it’s a hell of a lot better - genuine-looking limitations are always more convincing than “completely fantastical bullshit that just can’t do any damn thing that you’d expect, for increasingly suspicious reasons”, or that keeps switching capabilities after what the story/case needs. They’re major alarm bells for not only being made up, but poorly.
It isn’t the shtick for the major monotheistic religions, though. That wouldn’t be very omnipotent or omniscient.