Can unlimited power and wisdom be limited by stubbornness?

Knowing what ethical monotheists mean by "God" is a necessary condition for asking why they say that The One exists and whether anyone is in a position to know whether they are right or wrong.

Theism - belief in the existence of a god or gods, especially belief in one god as creator of the universe, intervening in it and sustaining a personal relation to his creatures.

• Polytheism - the belief in or worship of more than one god.
• Monotheism - the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.

Monotheism has been an arena of high theological development with the result that many of the dimensions of this view of God have been very precisely articulated, parsed and re-parsed. There is nothing that can limit what a completely non-contingent being can do and/or know.

Ethical monotheism incorporates all the dimensions of general monotheism and adds one important further characteristic, namely, that the divine is "without moral flaw." How could the sole source of all that is be simultaneously omnipotent omniscient, without moral flaw, and interested in us and the world be the way it is -- beset by host of all too familiar "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune"?

It is generally held that no more than one being can be "all powerful, all knowing and all good" -- thus, ethical monotheists tend to believe that all other worshippers are following after "false gods," at best, or are "idolaters," at worst. Even if there an be no more than one such being, however, it is not clear to everyone that there is one at all.