God Yahweh Allah was a volcano.

[thesummerqueen]

Hannah,

There's absolutely nothing wrong with asking questions about anything. I don't know how old you are, but I bet anyone my age remembers the cartoon and books for "The Magic Schoolbus" in which Ms Frizzle always said "If you keep asking questions, you'll keep getting answers."

The problem comes from getting defensive when we point out that many, if not all, of your questions and hypotheses have been put forward and been debated. There's no shame in not knowing - there are only so many hours in the day to use for research and reading - but that's where having people disagree with you can help. They might have information you haven't happened to find yet. Not any one of us has all the answers, but a few of us have a good head start in a few different directions.

I haven't finished re-reading everything, but it also seems to me that you left off a crucial factor in figuring out your "mysteries" - Biblical language. Hebrew does not translate quite as neatly to English or to Greek, and that may affect how your reading goes. It already takes scholarship to properly read English translations of the Bible to ascertain what the literature was meant to represent. Now compound that with the fact that in Hebrew, it is more likely to say something along the lines of "He is like a lion," which can mean (in English) that he is courageous, or he is strong, or he is a warrior. You see what I mean.

Depending on the translation I got, I could interpret burning bush to be a bush on fire, or because of my gardening bias I could say it might have been a species of plant Moses had never encountered before whose leaves turned into the color of flames. Our maple in the front yard of my house turns into a huge orange ball in the autumn, so vivid it almost glows in the sunlight.

You like your idea, and that's great, but unless you have real evidence for it to combat the evidence that's already been presented, you're going to be hard-pressed to change people's minds. There's no conspiracy in history or science to suppress ideas (except perhaps in religion). Good ideas bear up under scrutiny, and bad ones get chucked onto the wayside, or get refined into something better.