Children of Eden and life as a story

One of the parts of the musical Children of Eden that intrigued me the most was the very anthropomorphic character of the Father. Within the story he is not some perfect deity with perfect knowledge; in fact, in the second act, Noah seems to teach God a thing or two about love and family. Rather than being theologically accurate, the play is more of a cosmic drama with familial relations as the theme.

But as I watched the show, I tried interpreting this as an interesting view of the Garden of Eden story--trying to pull a fairly orthodox LDS interpretation out of the play. And I realized that for most of the first act, I could see the Father's actions as legitimately godly. The key was in interpreting him as playing a role in his interactions with humanity. Rather than making the story boring by giving perfect, obviously morally correct commands, he increased the conflict and tension by seeming to be selfishly motivated and perhaps even mistaken.

To accept such commandments requires a leap of faith, and when this is combined with possibly imperfect human messengers, we have a pretty interesting story. To me this sheds a bit of light on topics like the black priesthood ban, polygamy, and most of the Old Testament. What happens if we see God as purposefully appearing enigmatic and perhaps immoral in order to require faith in Him?