Not wishing to encourage your inner megalomaniac ... it's a question on just one point.
You are God and there are dead people who believe in you and people who don't.
You welcome the believers into heaven and you send the non-believers into eternal damnation and torture? (Even if they were otherwise honest and kind people.)
Here's what I would do:
Let the believers into heaven for as long as they want to be there.
Unmake the non-believers. They don't exist anymore - which is what they expected anyway. Make of them the nothing which was before they were born. No eternal damnation, no billions of souls wailing forever in fire and brimstone, no extra points/workload for Satan who must be sick of all that by now; the ungodly simply cease to exist.
If I was god, what would I do?
I would give a big, open 'Goodbye speech' in which I undeniably stated that I, as god, was retiring from all 'divine duties', that no further prayers were going to be listened to, that heaven and hell were shutting down and when you die you will be dead, that the definition of morallity is 'make life more satisfying and enjoyable for your fellow inhabitants of Earth' and the definition of imorality is 'acting in a way that causes harm or distress to your fellow inhabitants of Earth' (ie the 'two commandments' to replace the ten) ... and then, speech over, I'd sod off and never appear or do anything - other than keep reminding people I'd retired, by sending regular 'enjoying my retirement' postcards.
That's a good one. Love it.
I'm thinking, as I look around, that this must have already happened...maybe in The Apocrypha? Would explain A Lot!
I think I'd likely chastise the believers for their extremes (where they may have existed), and tell the non-believers that I can understand their skepticism. I'd also feel that, with all the suffering I'd allowed into the world, I had some very basic explaining to do.
But ultimately, I'd want to welcome all my children home, whether they felt I'd abandoned them or not. That kind of omnipotent love should be unconditional. And any intelligent God should be able to understand the reasoning's of the non-believers.
I think, in the end, I might be a little more put off with the believers for pushing and judging and belittling others, when that is the last thing they are supposed to do.
This is only the orthodox Christian view of god,heaven and hell.Ther e are so many other views.
According to gnostic belief,this is his kingdom,here on earth,right now,this is the "Whoppee" as Alan Watts calls it,(a Zen Bhuddist). There is no afterlife and so no heaven and hell in this view,living non believers just don't believe and believers do,we are already here, it is all happening right now.
I will be acknowledging an almighty failure. What you do with the failed tirants?
That makes sense. Now, what would you do with all the murderers, abusers, torturers, and child molesters? Do they come with us or would you have a special place for them? What about the criminals that have mental/brain disorders? What about the criminals who were abused as children? What about soldiers in wartime and politicians?
Decisions, decisions...what do we do with all of them? Maybe Satan won't get that break after all.
I find it impossible to answer or even think about questions that have an impossible or contradictory premise. It is equivalent to asking: if "2+2 was 5 what would 3+3 be?"
But I think it would be interesting for an almighty, eternal, all-knowing god to try and figure out how to commit suicide to end the immense boredom such a being must surely endure.
Drink a beer, sigh dramatically, hit the reset button, and hope I get it right this time.
Maybe skip all the slavery, Dark Ages, and bigotry, and hatred.
Maybe skip the whole 5 Finger Death Punch phaze.
Those guys are Nickleback for guys who are too "metal" and have too many barbed wire and tribal dragon tattoos to admit they like Nickleback.
And disco. Can we skip that, too?
Hey! I like Disco...it is Excellent to clean house by!
Don’t skip disco. We gotta dance. And all the polyester is gone.
Keep funk. Keep George Clinton and P-Funk. Skip the polyester and cocaine.
I would leave everything the fuck alone. No one gets their prayers answered. Heaven? Pffft.They all can be unmade. If I'm God, no way am I elevating these people to my plane of existence.
Why not surprise them and turn them into believers and send them to heaven. After all he is the great and powerful man behind the curtain.
Free will 'n all that?
If I were god, I wouldn't take attendance. The good people get heaven, the bad people get hell regardless of if they believed in me or not. Why would I care about that? After all, I'm god. I'd reflect on my failure, fix things if I could, and quit.
At first I thought this was a ridiculous question. However, the thought experiment gave me some insight on how religious people think. The idea that, if there were a god, that god would care if people believed in them or not and consequently how that impacts believers behavior implied in your post. Organized religion is irrational.
If I was God, I would give par of my (infinite) godly time to everyone, to carefully debrief their lives, what was right and what was wrong, what is there to be improved, and if they have reached perfection - allow them to pass beyond and join the team of God-like spirits, if they haven't reached that level yet or do not want to pass at this moment - would allow them to go back to Earth for another run (life) or rest a bit before this.
My vision does not provide the existence of hell.
Don't make humans in the first place. they made the first fuck up and have been doing so ever since and the rest of nature would do so much better and doesn't give a shit about religion. I could just kick back and watch and not have to do anything.