If you were God, what would you do differently?

I’d set it up so humans evolved with knees that bent backwards instead of forward, just to see what would replace chairs.

With my perception of the 1 infinite creator I wouldn’t do anything. I’d let you, humanity, and all things living in this universe exist and that’s it. Grow to be creative to fix yourselves.

I could not even entertain the idea that I could do a better job, I have no idea what that job entails, I don’t know the end game or the best way to get there and if I did I’d presume I’d do exactly how it has been done.
From what I’ve gathered from the Bible, and this is my personal understanding and I can’t speak for anyone elses interpretation, the story of Job gives insight. Satan challenged God and said “The only reason Job is faithful is because you protect him, remove the hedge and he will curse your name”.
God has it in his power to just destroy Satan on the spot but this would mean God rules by power, not by right. So God levels the playing field, so that both have equal influence, equal chance, God could not lose a dirrect challenge so the only way for God to be proven rightful sovereign is in a fair fight. The deciding factor being the choice of humans, the choice to love or hate. Every choice we make reflects what choice we are making, every choice is either made in the spirit of love or hate and that is why we have choice and that is why there is suffering.
Without suffering there would be no choice because we would not even know what hate is.

Let me tell you another story, and this you will not find in the Bible.
God had two sons, Yin and Yang. One is responsible for all relationships and the other is responsible for all destructions, basically one brings in the shopping and the other takes out the trash. Neither is good or evil, they both have a role in the universe that without either of them the universe could not even exist.
When they work together they are perfect, even equal to God, but seperate they are only half perfect each. Because neither is perfect, either can make mistakes, (like Satan made a mistake by challenging God yet because Satan is so vital to the very existence of the universe he could not just be destroyed but his challenge had to be answered in a fair match up otherwise it would be known that God only rules because he is too powerful, not because he deserves such loyalty).
It is not fair to see destruction as evil and creation as good, because both can make mistakes and both can do the right thing. An example is cancer, it grows, this is a case of a mistake by creation, but as a cancer goes into remission, this is destruction doing the right thing. There are many examples of both creation and destruction doing both right and wrong, and that is because they are only half perfect each.

The problem here is that we like to imagine God like we are. We imagine a holy, enlightened being that is full of love. Now this enlightened being FIGHTS (e.g. with Satan) and has severe ego problems so that he/she/it needs WORSHIP FROM US to feel good ? I’m not trying to attack believers, I just want to show how inconsistent our picture of god is.
And because we like to help others we think that God also likes to help others. That might be right, but when we try to help others we act like: Go away, let me do it, you can’t do it, I will do it and you watch how it works. When God tries to help someone it’s like: Here is the way, but you have to go it yourself.
A mother does not constantly watch over her children. She just gives them love and all things they need to learn. Then she lets them go… to play and experience for themselves, to gain their own experience.

If I were god, i’ll take a good lengthy nap for sure.

@trek79, I know that there are many metaphors in the bible(and you know, too), but many (other) people don’t recognize them (That’s why I said what I said above). What makes it even harder is that sometimes the story has only a metaphorical meaning and sometimes it’s meant literally. But I also think that some people messed around with the bible over time, and added or manipulated the content. That said, I only know small parts of the bible.