I have just read the book "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy.
Fantastic book. It made me feel cold and hard, but I couldn't put it down.

I have several questions about it:

There seems to have been a large aspect of God. Can someone clarify? for instance when they came across that old starving man, the father told him that the boy could be a God.

How long was that man who saved the boy following them for, why didn't he help them? what did you stand for?