Exactly. I may not be a scientific/analytical type myself, but I can see how someone like that could do things that would seem horrendous out of a very real and passionate love for his creation. I can see it being difficult, even painful, but him doing it anyway. This kind of God is much easier to deal with, for me at least, than the abstraction that hides behind words like "omnipotent" and "omniscient."

It's always been my view that we (by which I mean intelligent beings throughout the universe) are intended to develop to the point where we can succeed the Creator and make our own universes. Suppose there's a level even above that? Suppose Gods evolve too?