It has been said: "God gave us all minds and intellects to enable us to make this crucial decision. It is the most important decision in the life of a human being. Upon it depends his future. Consequently, each and every one of us must examine dispassionately the evidence presented and choose what appears to be right until further evidence arises."
An atheist may argue the origin of mind and intellect but the reamainder still holds.

No, it doesn't, because most of the readers of this thread are smart enough to not let you define the terms that are used here. Your fiction isn't the basis of this conversation.

Guest, Tug, said So Mthe GM, being driven out of Chaldea, being enslaved in Egypt and Babylon, and wandering in the desert because of their infidelity don't count, then?

Nope. It's a story. Suffering isn't the long suit of old testament players, it doesn't verify the belief system represented in the story that has been modified by so many others that it has (I suspect) little resemblance to the original.

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