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The glaringly human version of the Creator of the universe--as described by the various authors of the Bible's sixty-six books--is chock full of mortal traits. Wrathful anger, brutality, scorn, vengeance, cruelty, jealousy, and deceit are only a quick short list of mundane and unmistakably human behaviors we all know so well from our own lives. The dozens of Scriptural authors who collectively sculpted the conceptual identity of God, did so with much vanity. Their attempts at configuring the nature and character of God--Yahway-- were so self-conscious, yet they can't be faulted. These prophets, scribes, and scholars were trying to draw a map of existence as they could understand it themselves. Their own references were only human, as they had no other knowledge base. Religous doctrine must attribute every word of Scripture--"every jot and tittle"--to divine inspiration composed directly from God. These core beliefs of origin, like so many concepts in the Bible, are pu...