Has anyone any idea why Yahweh should have so cocked up after the Crossing of the Red Sea?  I mean, when they, "the Chosen People" remember, got across, why did he tell them to turn left?; so that now, there they are, stuck with that little bit of coastal strip ~ which they have indeed made bloom like a rose & such; OK.  But, if he had used his omnipotence to look ahead a bit, wouldn't he have said to himself?, "They are my Chosen.  And what will the market for milk·&·honey be in C20-21, eh?"! And then wouldn't he have told them to turn right?; ~~ and then who would have been sitting on all those luvly oil-wells now, eh?

Now, why did he do that, do you think? I mean, Chosen-Schmosen!