If I had no faith and I were reading the Bible as narrative what would I make of the character, Yahweh? He creates man and woman in his likness and hangs out with them. It's almost like he was lonely and there wasn't anyone like him, so he created beings that were like him so that he could be not so alone. I get this sense over and over again. I've gotten it recently in my reading of Exodus. It's almost like, Yeah, this Exodus thing is good. This could work. They've been lost for so long, but they could become my people again. It could work this time. I've missed having friends since Adam and Eve... and since Cain killed Abel. After that, whoa, it got real bad. I figured I'd start over with Noah. Noah was cool; we could've been friends, but then his kids were such screw-ups. And then we were back to how things were before the flood. There were some good times with Abraham, and his kid Isaac was cool. And Jacob ...