User blog comment:Twilight Despair 5/Character Flaws/@comment-3481504-20150211032220/@comment-11331875-20150218020219

It would be unbiased to say that God is all-powerful and all-knowing if the show had actually said he was. To my knowledge, however, that's never actually been said. Has it been implied that God is unimaginably powerful? Oh yes. Has it been implied that he knows a great deal more about what's going on than an entity who's effectively "gone" should? Oh yes. But it was never stated that he is all-powerful, that he is all-knowing, blah, blah, blah, and therefore, it shouldn't be included.

You can't say that God is all-powerful/all-knowing because he created the universe or because he is the metafictional self-insert for Eric Kripke/the writers; the latter should not apply to in-universe matters (because the Supernatural character of God is a metaphor for the writers, the Supernatural character of God is not actually masquerading as Eric Kripke as we speak and able to twist the Supernatural universe however he pleases), and the former because -- while you can point to him being the creator of Destiny, Destiny does not actually exist in Supernatural. That was the point of Season 5. That was why Lucifer vs. Michael didn't happen. That was why Balthazar said Castiel "ripped up the script," why the Host stopped speaking to Atropos. Because Destiny is a construct the angels made for themselves because they needed order. There was never any Destiny. God doesn't control anything; he lets everyone choose their own paths and he sees where they go with it. Therefore, God can't know everything. Therefore, God can't be all-knowing. I'm not going to make an argument that he's not all-powerful -- because there's no evidence one way or the other. God has never been stated as such, and he hasn't shown up and flexed his powers enough for us to be able to say, "Oh, yeah, definitely" without any doubt.

An example of bias would be, "God is amazingly, incalculably, humoungously powerful. He is more powerful than anything else to ever exist, with only Death possibly being comparable to his own infinite power. God knows absolutely everything and anything, every thought everyone's ever had, and all possible futures." Here's an example of canon fact: "Castiel's claim that God is the only entity capable of stopping the Apocalypse implies that God is incredibly powerful. God is thought to have an extensive knowledge of the workings of the universe, as Joshua told Sam and Dean that God already knew 'everything you want to tell him.'" Spot the difference?