If God is all-powerful, how can one ever "play God"?

For whatever reason, we are given free-will. We have been given the power to be co-creators (or co-destroyers). That doesn't mean there isn't a higher power and a whole lot in the universe that is bigger than us. But apparently God is secure enough to allow or delegate (like any accomplished manager?) some things to us.

God did do this. After the flood he he promised he'd never ever do that sort of thing again... at least until the apocalypse. Of course God is perfect so he can't do anything wrong. But saying he can't do anything wrong limits God in some way so we can't say that... oh it makes my brain ache. That's a rather cynical question. There are wonderful things in this world. The beauty of nature in contrast with the horrors of it just sets the contrast and makes my heart ache when I contemplate it. I see the depths of human depravity contrasted with human goodness and it makes it all worth it. We have to struggle or accomplishments mean nothing. Life has worth because it ends. Life is meaningless if it is eternal.

One can only play God in certain things, such as making a decision to put something to death. It is a statement that I am making a judgment to condemn something that I have the power to condemn.

You said it yourself. It's playing God. You know you arent that powerful, but you're pretending you are in a certain set of circumstances. You arent taking God's power in your own hands. That's impossible. You're "playing" God.

That you are making life-and-death decisions for another.

Who will live? Who will die? That is "playing God."

(Personally, for me, playing God is giving life to that which has no life; far more important and powerful)

Well, animals are much like a personal belonging and the owner has the authority to put an ill or aged animal to sleep if they wish.

If she comes at you with that euthanasia needle...I'd worry.

The same way in which one can play Beethoven, but not BE Beethoven......and yes, it would be impossible. But you know that already, yet form your questions in such a manner as to attempt to ridicule and mock.........correct?

it's a figure of speech. the "playing" here would refer to "pretending to be". it's not a theological statement, it's an idiom.