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Just because something seems righteous, and sensible does not prove its divine provenance. The problem is we have seen technology allows us to do ever more. Perhaps there are limits to the powers of beings lesser than God, but said limits are unknown so far. Without that even if we gave all the miracles of the old testament, that does not guarantee their divine provenance, that is that they do not come from a being lesser than God but still capable of these.We may agree with the morality of such a hypothetical being, but divine providence cannot be claimed without sufficient proof, and short of proof originating from the eternal body of truth itself, no action no matter how incredible suffices as proof of true divinity.
In the past it was hard to conceive of such beings, but with today's fiction it is not.
That said, I'm not too fond of the notion that God is good as a property in itself. That would be not that different from saying things are good simply because they're good(aka things are good because god says so and god is good seems circular). My take is God's moral nature emerges from the properties of omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, and perfect intellect.
Truth can have moral consequences, because all facts are based on the underlying truth, any conclusion derived from falsehood must cede way to the path of truth, which comes to light when the true facts become known. The idea that the entire body of truth, the infinite body of knowledge, would never bear weight on morality one way or the other seems dubious.
As for physical manifestations of God, it depends on whether God is fractal like in nature, and a true fragment reflects the full nature of the whole.
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