Is God Altruistic? Is God Happy?

[Belacqua]

Right. As I said at the beginning, this is a problem for people who take the Old Testament literally. 

"What is written about god" includes a hell of a lot more than the Bible. It's important not to filter out the stuff that doesn't meet your preconceptions.

Yep, but thru a theological filter. 

For the christian god exists people isn't the OT considered the word of god? Why shouldn't it be taken literal, unless god has a communication problem.

Still capricious. Your dodge attempt didn't work.

You could read what St. Augustine had to say about why the OT shouldn't be taken literally. Most theologians interpret the Bible with a 4-level hermeneutical system, with a literal reading being the lowest. 

We should also keep in mind that when theologians talk about a "literal" reading, it may be different than the way we usually use the term.

This is from Wikipedia:

Alternatively, the term [literal] can refer to the historical-grammatical method, a hermeneutic technique that strives to uncover the meaning of the text by taking into account not just the grammatical words, but also the syntactical aspects, the cultural and historical background, and the literary genre. It emphasizes the referential aspect of the words in the text without denying the relevance of literary aspects, genre, or figures of speech within the text (e.g., parable, allegory, simile, or metaphor).[3] It does not necessarily lead to complete agreement upon one single interpretation of any given passage. This Christian fundamentalist and evangelical hermeneutical approach to scripture is used extensively by fundamentalist Christians,[4] in contrast to the historical-critical method of mainstream Judaism or Mainline Protestantism. Those who relate biblical literalism to the historical-grammatical method use the word "letterism" to cover interpreting the Bible according to the dictionary definition of literalism.[5]

So for example, in this sense, a literal reading would identify if a given section is a parable, and interpret it in that way.