Sorry my FRiend, I cannot agree with your characterization for it paints God as petulent, ultimately. I would call your attention to the incident when Joshua crossed the Jordan ‘dried up’; there is evidence that the Jordan dries up periodically due to landslides up river which dam up the flow for a time before breaking through again to follow the riverbed. I personally believe God notified Joshua where to camp across from Jericho because God was aware that the landslide was imminent and the flow would be interrupted.
So true!
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "FOR THIS VERY PURPOSE I RAISED YOU UP, TO DEMONSTRATE MY POWER IN YOU, AND THAT MY NAME MIGHT BE PROCLAIMED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH." So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?"
On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it?
Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use?
What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?
And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles.
Romans 9:17:23
You'll note Paul never answers the question, "Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?" He just says, "Suck it up, God gets to do what he wants." God apparently picks some people and hardens them towards him, resulting in their doing evil acts, and then shows the chosen few how lucky they are by destroying the wicked, who never really had a choice ("who resists His will?")! Of course, he could just have made everyone be good in the first place, but then he couldn't demonstrate his "patience" before napalming his chosen bad people into ashes.
Damned people: Sucks to be you!
No.
I don’t see God as being petulant at all.
Nor do I see landslides as causing the Jordan to dry up.
Nor do I think Pharoah drowned in a few inches of water in the “Reed” Sea.
Besides, that period’s chariots have been found at both sides of the Red Sea in the most likely spot for the miraculous crossing.