Now your are insulting my intelligence, you want me to believe that god never instructed people to be executed for disobeying god's law? Let me refresh your memory. First, the flood, god kills every thing except 8 people and some animals. What about Sodom and Gomorrah? And then lot's wife. Now what about these verses Ex. 21: 17 Ex 32: 27-29 and there are a lot more. So I think the Israelites knew god pretty well.
I am ?
"First, the flood, god kills every thing except 8 people and some animals".
Now we know this not to be a historic fact don't we
So why should the rest of it be ?
The true knowledge about God is not found in the old testament.
The truth about God is is displayed in Jesus Christ.