The curious reader will further ask, "why does an all powerful and all benevolent god need Abraham to beseech him? Why does the god need to "go down there" to find out what's happening?
Have we not just learned that the god is both NOT all knowing and NOT all benevolent?
And, kinda, just, NOT terribly Godly?
This is your opinion of what a God should be according to the book of Rhea.
Is it not that
everyone makes their opinion of what a god should be according to their own viewpoint?
Otherwise there would be no arguments, even among Jews.
You like to poke logical holes in biblical stories as if that proves something.
I find myself unable to ignore logical holes.
Perhaps you find them easy to ignore, as if they prove nothing?
Jews have done that for thousands of years before you were a twinkle in your parents eyes.
Are you as disdainful of them doing it as you are of me?
You have an idea of what God is and since it doesn't fit your idea ipso facto there is no God.
Yes, that’s what “belief” is, you are correct.
If the story does not compute, I am unable to muster up a belief.
If someone tells a sloppy, contradictory, unhealthy story, I will be unable to believe that it is true.
A god, of course, would know this.
and if you wish to believe that it's OK with me.
Is it, though?
You don’t actually seem okay with it.