By acting like a barbaric, petulant child. Gotcha.

Well you have to think, they wouldnt have listened any other way.

Wholesale slaughter makes much more sense than direct aural/visual communication. I think you're the one that needs to think this through.

Even Moses wasnt holy enough to be able to see more than God's coat. Why would he be able to show himself to everyone without causing mass mayhem and destruction?

Because he's allegedly omnipotent. I feel like this is becoming an old Abbot and Costello routine. First base!

Exactly! If he is omnipotent, he can just make us all think, "Yes, he exists! And he loves us! Exalt!" or something to that effect.

But didn't he 'supposedly' give us free will ?

But "times were different" then, so he absolutely had to intervene. No free will for the first born of Egypt. No free will for the worshippers of other religions and gods. No free will for the wives and daughters of the same who were raped.

LOL, we are sort of going after the low-hanging fruit with Christianity. It really doesn't hold up to any sort of scrutiny. It's almost not fair.

Oh, and before people start saying that we're deviating from deity existence in general and going into religions again, I'm just trying to prove that whatever the deity in question is not really benevolent.