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WRONG! Turns out God wants you to behave outrageously, summons you at the worst times possible and sometimes even causes effects that will be very much of a burden on you, leading to losses from your reputation to your job or even your spouse! Oh, of course, this tends to solve itself, what with the [[Omniscient Morality Licence]], and [[Any Torment You Can Walk Away From]]. But the Almighty will NEVER make things easy on you. He WILL make you grow a beard all of a sudden. He WILL tell you cryptic stuff and tell you to [[Figure It Out Yourself]]. He will never tell you why or how setting fire to a box full of kittens on national TV will make anything better, but he will force you to do it anyways, your presidential campaign be damned! In short, you can expect any [[Physical God]] that chose you as their envoy to disrupt your life as much as they can (and they are omnipotent...) for the benefit of the audience.
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Evan Almighty]]''. The beard example comes from there and is particularly jarring, given that it had no practical purpose whatsoever. Then there are the
** ...which, of course, is a sequel to ''[[Bruce Almighty]]'', where the same God simply dumped all his powers into one guy just to show him how tough God had it.
== [[Literature]] ==
* Depending on your views of [[The Bible]], [[The Bible]] has stories very much like this - especially if you consider that many of the Christian values lots of cultures have now were novel - to say the least - to the people of that culture.
* [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in ''[[
== [[Live
* ''[[Joan of Arcadia]]''. The title character had to, among other things, destroy works of art and re-take a test she had aced.
* ''[[Journeyman]]'' hinted that the character's time jumps were for a purpose. They were seriously inconvenient, and he could disappear when driving down the road, end up without clothes in snow, etc.
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* God ''and'' the devil in [[God, the Devil and Bob]].
== Other Media ==
* Some theologians use this as a solution to the problem of theodicy. The existence of evil is something for us to overcome. Natural disasters and diseases and suffering are so that we can grow as people. It builds character.
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