Your concept of God clearly operates on a time scale. 7-day creation, et al. Do you dispute this?
In my hopelessly limited concept, God affects the finite, temporal, causal universe. There's a difference.
The Bible was not written from within a modern world view, neither is it a science text. To use it for such, makes as much sense as using Feynman's Red Books to learn about the meaning of life.
You’re welcome, and I will try and answer this again in greater detail later, but for now, I wanted to ask you that if a deity was so interested in conveying to its creation the ‘reality’ of its existence, why would it do so using media that is not merely corruptible, but of a highly suspect nature, forcing the believer to rely on human testimony, instead of direct revelation?
In other words, if Moses (or Arjuna, or whoever) could talk to the divinity, then why not all the rest of humanity? Also, it’s an important thing to note that when Moses went up to collect the tablets, his people, after supposedly having witnessed all the extra-ordinary ‘miracles’ and other occurrences, decided to lose faith in this particular deity, and began making their own. Doesn’t this strike you as odd? That first-person witnesses to ‘miracles’ would do this? En masse? Another point of suspicion is the people themselves demanding they want a middleman-prophet, instead of direct reception. Isn’t this rather convenient for the scripture writers to attach?