Plotting God From the Bible

In the beginning, the elohim created skies and earth.

Welcome.  I wish you joy and safety today.

Here is a plot that can be extrapolated from the Bible.  God as the main character in the Bible story is my starting point.  

Next time, I will review the story of God as Israel's god.  For now, I want to explain God as if he, and in the Bible God is an extraterrestrial, magical Male, were a character in a novel.

Once upon a before time, there was a god who lived in the sky with an inexact population of other sky dwellers generically dubbed the heavenly host.  His name was Elohim which meant El and the other gods. 

For no particular reason, God-Elohim called forth light, presumably so he could see, and even though there were yet no actual sources of heat like stars, the light worked.  So Elohim began shaping land and sea so that they could nourish life. 

In the end of the creation week, God-Elohim created men and women.  He declared that the entire creation was all good, and then he took a Sabbath rest. 

In another once upon a before time, God-Yahweh began his creation in a desert devoid of life until water came up from the ground.  Using this same ground, Yahweh created a man named Mankind, which in Hebrew is Adam.  He planted a garden and put Adam there to live. 

Yahweh made animals for Adam, but they were not great companions, so Yahweh made a woman out of the Adam’s rib.  Her name was Eve.

God’s children, Adam and Eve, were disobedient children.  Their children became worse.  God decided to wipe out most of humanity because of the violence and wickedness or wickedness that was violence in the world.

Since men in general were disobedient, God decided to make a nation all to Himself who would be obedient and follow his laws.  He would uplift his nation among all the other nations as a shining example of obedience.

So God chose a man named Abraham to spawn his own country.  The children of Abraham become slaves in Egypt, so God recruited Moses and Aaron to persuade the Pharaoh to set his own slaves free.  God threw in a few plagues to help Pharaoh make up his mind. 

After his nation was set free, God gave Moses his ten commandments on a mountaintop so it would be clear to his people what God wanted them to obey.  

His people, including Moses, continued to disobey him so God confused them for forty years in such a way they wandered in a wilderness between Egypt and Palestine, also called Canaan. 

Once they reached Canaan, God made the sun stop in the sky so his nation could win a battle.  When everyone obeyed him, God let his army win battles.  If one person disobeyed him, God let his army lose battles.  

Since it is impossible for everyone to obey God, he allowed some of his nation’s enemies to live in the land alongside them.  That way, he could send his nation’s enemies to plunder and kill as a punishment for disobedience. 

To be continued…  Blessings…