This Question will Assume That There is a God
Why did your god create the universe??
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Could a consciousness evolve within the cosmos? I don't know. Could it be omnipotent? Absolutely not. Maybe it could whisper to us though....and maybe those whispers could have influenced evolution, by giving better listeners an edge. Probably not though 
BTW, that type of a "God" may not of been able to conceive of a God until a species existed (that it could sense) that conceived of any such consciousness as being a deity in the first place. In that sense, perhaps man created God by giving identity to a cosmic, collective consciousness (and maybe we all share, or are a part of, that consciousness). Maybe not.
I've never been introduced to any other notion of omnipotence than that of an all-powerful being that can move mountains and split waters.
Recently I was randomly interrupted with a notion of some type of evolved cosmic consciousness that we all are sort of unique individual "incarnations" of, and to which we collective contribute in the form of experience. So I asked, what is the "purpose" of our life if that is at all possible? Well, assuming the being has been able to express its preferences to influence what came, we must assume we are a result of such preference, so something we must do--and allow it to experience--is preferred. In contrast to the past casual harmony of the universe, we humans bring irrationality, and beauty through our irrationality. We bring continuity of stories, motifs, and themes. No longer is this consciousness filled with blots of patterned color from the systematic game of the universe, but from deep strokes of contrasting arrays of light that lead into more strokes carried through our generations. We paint the canvas of life, through our pain and our love, with amazing complexity that grows exponentially. Perhaps our sole purpose is to merely craft interesting and beautiful stories that the consciousness will experience. We are to bring color to a casual world, and art to blots. We have been whispered to, and pushed, until we have become beings capable of delivering all shades and strokes to a drab world. And no matter who we are, or what we do, we are all still part of that story and contributing in our own beautiful way (presuming of course the consciousness is in any way connected to other living life and has an influence of it).
And in that sense, what if such a cosmic consciousness is revolting from the universe? A rejection of the game and its simple pattern dots, as well as its casual harmony. What if that which humans refer to as God is merely a evolved consciousness that is leading its own battle against order and a creation & existence beyond its control? This God may merely be cultivating and exploiting existence itself, and life, for its own edification.
But then again, I think its rather more likely I'm losing my mind. So the cult will have to wait till next year.
Aristotelian etc. philosophy talks about potentiality and actuality, physics talks about quantum potential, and us men folks have special meaning for potency that our dearest friends and companions appreciate, at least occasionally, when we surpass our physical boundaries and unite in border zones. 
Your second paragraph is very beautiful. I have a friend, a theoretical physicist, who had many years ago a long lasting special experience. During that experience he had interesting discussion with what he calls "Lonely God". If God has no other gods to communicate with, I imagine that it can compensate by having very rich inner life and imagination...
And how does telling each other beautiful stories turn into competition of what stories to believe and what not? Do we need to really believe any stories in order to enjoy them, and to learn what they can teach? We hear our first beautiful stories from our parents, and when we unite out potentials into border zones and become parents and put our children to sleep, we tell them beautiful stories.
We like horror stories, but perhaps we like happy endings and never ending stories even better. Also science is a story, or many stories of explanations with strong predictive power which we call theories. And what stories do we tell with those explanations and their predictive power? What I would like to see is less horror stories and more stories of extending love between parent and child to all our relations. So that science would not be only search for theory of all, but also become a story of people, a way of life.
I did not undersand anything ............
It sounds like you feel it is very important that all people taught religion neeed to understand everything about their religion and should be able to explain everything about their religion if they are asked.
What's wrong with that?
Eternity with no one to shoot the shit with?
Why do we blither and natter at each other the way we do here on DU and in this forum specifically?
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
If you assume that God is a great mind then God will want to discuss ideas. Some humans are such obstinate beasts that they would happily argue with God until He cried u(U?)ncle. <flicks eyes at mirror> By no means do I assume we are alone in the universe and I suspect that any other race of sophonts is going to have some individuals just as pig headed and prone to disagreement as our own race does, God would want it that way and what God wants God gets.
You can get epistemological and all that jive but at our current level of understanding of the universe my explanation makes about as much sense any any other.
On the other hand maybe He just wanted to hear Jeff Beck cover Amazing Grace.
