The film holds a 74% "Fresh" rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes from 27 reviews. Roger Ebert gave the film 3.5 stars out of possible 4, praising the casting of Burns and Denver and noting that Oh God! struck the right tone by avoiding both pious religious platitudes and "cheap shots" about faith. It was regarded in many reviews as one of the best films of 1977, including Gene Siskel, who placed it on his top 10 list for the year. Oh, God! was a critical and commercial success. It ultimately grossed $51,061,196 domestically, making it the ninth highest-grossing film of 1977. The film was released on Octoin 198 theaters and earned $1.9 million on its opening weekend.
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Gelbart originally wanted Woody Allen to play Jerry Landers and Mel Brooks to play God but Allen declined because he was already making his own movie dealing with God, Stardust Memories.
At first, God fails to appear and the judge threatens to charge Jerry with contempt for "what you apparently thought was a clever stunt." Jerry argues that when everyone waited for a moment to see what would happen when he raised the mere possibility of God making a personal appearance in the courtroom, it proved that He at least deserves the benefit of the doubt. Jerry argues that if God's existence is a reasonable possibility, then He can materialize and sit in the witness chair if He so chooses. After being sued for slander by a charismatic preacher that God directed Jerry to call a "phony", Jerry decides to prove his story in a court of law.
To Jerry's relief after an agonizing wait, God, working as room service, delivers food to Jerry and answers the questions.
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Skeptical at first, Landers finds his life turned upside down as a group of theologians attempt to discredit him by challenging him to answer a series of questions written in Aramaic while locked in a hotel room alone to prove God is contacting him directly.
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The next day, after Jerry is stranded from a car breakdown, God appears as a taxi driver to take Jerry home, where they are met by a bunch of chanting "religious nuts." Before he disappears, God consoles Jerry that he has the "strength that comes from knowing." Jerry soon appears on television with Dinah Shore and describes the look God takes when he encounters him. Timidly at first, Landers tells his wife, children and a religion editor of the Los Angeles Times of his encounters with God and soon becomes a national icon of comedic fodder. After a few failed attempts in trying to set up an "interview," God tells Jerry that he has been selected to be His messenger to the modern world, much like a contemporary Moses. God appears as a kindly old man to Jerry Landers, an assistant supermarket manager.
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