God Yahweh Allah was a volcano.

[Hannah]

Indomitable because of the feeling that this god is all-knowing, etc. Indomitable because once you've been brain washed into it it's very hard to get the damn thing out of your head. Of course, he was not all-present at first and that is why the Hebrews had to leave Egypt to worship him. The omnipresence came after they were forced to leave Mount Sinai. Somehow, probably through threats of death, the people were brain washed into believing the mountain of god would know if they did anything wrong and would be able to fire his fiery balls as far as would be necessary to exact punishment for wrong doings. People died in these harsh conditions and examples were made (god did it...be warned!). Of course, the priests were working on behalf of the honourable mountain of god so they acted as extra eyes and ears and executioners. I can imagine it would have been a fairly easy transition given the number of deaths of Hebrews in Exodus. Killing off a few thousand to instill fear and obedience would have been nothing in the grand scheme. The volcano terminology carries on throughout the Bible. Jesus's prophets didn't know yahweh's methods of wrath were volcanic but they repeated the OT stories to intill fear of yahweh.

No volcanos in Egypt. I know. I've been researching this for a few months now. This makes the case stronger not weaker. The lack of volcanos in Egypt strenthens the case for not only the Hebrews being in awe of one when they did finally stand close enough to one to see it firing out brimstone, etc, but it also strenthens the case for them having been in Egypt. These people, whoever they were, were volcano naive. There are people who believe they crossed into Saudi. It makes sense given the terrible conditions mentioned in the Bible. The Hebrews were crying all the time, starving and thirsty. Saudi is full of volcanos and has extreme weather/fault lines, etc. It may be that they just believed all volcanos were their god, hence 'Mount Horeb' and 'Mount Sinai'. They may have moved around a volcanic area.

I just cannot understand how anyone can read Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, etc, and not realise that these people walked towards a volcano, set up camp, gradually moved around the outer circumpherence areas of the volcano and sacrificed animals to this terrifying and majestic entity they were completely ignorant about....the highest hill for as far as the eye can see....the shepperd leading its flock.

It is entirely possible that this one little error did create three enormous religions because this volcano inspired all the terrifying verses that have put the fear of yahweh into so many hearts. There would have been nothing as frightening as a volcano to people who'd never seen one before. They would only have had to stay there for long enough to be terrified to the core and for the 'church' to be established. All that was required for the fear to continue to this day in the hearts and minds of millions was the removal of one word.....volcano.

'heaven' was the masse of clouds above the volcano, 'his chariots' were the ash clouds running down the volcano, 'fiery darts' were volcanic rocks, 'hell' was inside the volcano, 'angels' were flickering flames coming from lava vents, 'rivers of fire' was lava flow, the 'burning bush' that was not burning was a bush located near a burning volcanic gas leak or steam vent and the 'voice of god' was the rumblings inside the volcano.

The voice of god sounds very much like the Wizard from the Wizard of Oz doesn't it? Putting fear into the hearts of all who could hear him? The yellow brick road is also reminiscient of the lava rivers. Did the film makers work it out too?