@Zealist It is absolutely absurd. Life is absurd. Stranger than fiction. And all individual lives are different - perception is reality.

Omnipotent omniscient I'm not so sure. See you're going to hate me for this, but I have a more progressive sort of take on it all. God could be anything. Anyone. A guy with access to simulation technology. Seems more realistic with the way things are headed. Maybe aliens, which god could even be alalien. Who knows. Again maybe they designed and intergreted that bible in to early history and society to give all people moving forward even just the simple possibility of belief that god exists. But maybe not necessarily to be stuck on this one book forever. If you think about it, it's already outdated, seemingly irrelevant to our times.