The life of a young man, named Truman Burbank, is broadcast live, in its entirety, twenty-four hours a day, from before his birth into young adulthood. It is, overall, a genuinely funny and disturbing movie. God and human beings are engaged in mutual relationship. God is just and respects the sacred value of human life. Hence, he can be talked down from total destruction for the sake of ten innocent souls.
Human freedom is likewise sacred.
We are told that Abraham remained standing before God. We have a right to expect our human needs to be met. We have the capacity to forgive and to be forgiven. We are not pre-destined robots or victims of determined causes or simpletons duped by the wily fates. Children of God who can expect to be loved.