DAVID: He created us. Why shouldn't He be interested in seeing how we handle problems? Interested not purposeful.

dhw; Thank you for putting my case for me. If he created us in order to set us problems, and now watches us with interest, it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that he actually created us so that he would have something interesting to watch.

No, I'm not. Your approach is much too humanizing for me. He didn't feel the need to create something interesting. He simply had a specific goal, the creation of humans.