text: No, Man is like God.  For God created man in His image and likeness (Gen 1:26-27).  But unlike God, man is not complete; we do not have eternal life... yet.  God is still in the process of creating us in his image and likeness, and offers us eternal life so that we can be like him and with him, enjoying life forever.\n\nYour analogy of a movie is an interesting one.  Though God can be thought of as a Producer, writer and director -- in that he makes all things possible, has a plan and oversees its fulfillment; and people are like actors, having free will -- the analogy breaks down from there.  Life, and God's plan, is not like a script for actors to follow.  It's more like a production schedule, where there are certain things that must happen at certain times, and God makes sure they happen regardless of the will of the people involved.\n\nAs for the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil that God planted in the midst of the Garden of Eden -- This reveals an aspect of God that few people realize -- God does NOT know all things.  He does not know what beings with free will will do in each situation.  But he wants and needs to know that; so, he tests us to find out.  The tree was a test.  Adam, and all his family by his action, failed the test!\n\nGod tested Abraham in the sacrifice of his son Isaac; he tested the Israelites in the wilderness, to find out if they would obey him or not.  God even allowed Satan to tempt Christ, to test him.  And God tests Christians today; all for the same reason -- to find out if we will obey him forever.\n\nBut notice, God had planted TWO trees in the midst of the Garden, and it was only the one he commanded the man not to eat.  The other, he actually WANTS us to eat of the fruit.