As i read the Bible, i have a hard time buying the narrative that God is all knowing. He just gets way too angry. [Spirituality & Religion]

It's a work of fiction.
The author remains uncredited.

He doesn't seem very forgiving this all forgiving God.

This sort of stuff is why groups like the Cathars concluded the god of the old testament was the Demierge and that the god of the new testament ie Jesus is a seperate entity entirely because the two are not really reconcilable. You have one who is a mass murdering lunatic and one that is kind of the first hippie (in Judeo Christian belief) in many ways.

"Free will" seems to be the go-to answer to every challenge to Christian belief and doctrine, but it can only go so far as an answer. Is free will really free if God knows every action ahead of time? Is it really free will if our fate is predestined?

He has every right to have high standards of behavior. We should be loving, but we aren't.

This won't be a satisfying answer, but my interpretation is that these accounts are ways of explaining the tide of history, the rises and declines of a society. Whenever Israel was attacked or their society was on the wane, it had to be explained as a failing of the people to properly obey God, especially the sin of worshiping false gods. Enemies attacked because God allowed it to happen due to the wickedness of the people. This was how the ancient Israelites rationalized the misfortunes that befell them.

I think otherwise we're becoming too bogged down in the mechanics of omniscience.

It's also an interesting contrast with how God is portrayed in the NT.

Emotions and intellect are two separate things. But knowing for sure what will happen and having a reasonably good guess are also separate.

Then why read it?

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The bible is full of contradictions like that.

I really think the first person to think up the old testament God was a narcissistic psychopath. All the symptoms are there. They were just so narcissistic they elevated their mental illness to a God.
Probably terrorized their immediate family members into worship on threat of death or sexual abuse. Thus the first converts.
Also he was supposedly an edomite war God. So if this started in the military no wonder it found a foothold were death and rape are war tactics.

{@pikachu ] god has shown wrath in the old testament towards the egyptians with his plagues

You just described the other profound narcissist d trump. Worship and obey ME and ME only or be severely punished

God is a twat.

It's simply the interpretation of a prophet. You see, the Jews had a lot of shit dealt to them and they worried even more shit would come. Apocalyptic text should always be talked about in context with the times