(February 3, 2018 at 4:16 pm)Brian37 Wrote: It conflicts with the idea of an "all powerful" God.
Especially one with a premade plan in place for the Universe, such that nothing happens that the god didn't intend for to happen. So given the book was written in a certain specific way, all the concomitant consequences of that choice must also be part of that plan and lie squarely at the feet of the god who allegedly made that choice.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'