I'm sure you will get a massive flaming for the post but I think you probably have a point. I don't want to offend anyone with strong religious beliefs but if we just look at things objectively as you seem to have done it makes an interesting hypothesis.
Whether the people in the Bible were actually schizophrenics by clinical definition or not cannot be discerned but there are a lot of indications of at least transient psychosis and this applies to many religious traditions.
I sometimes jokingly tell people I have met Jesus and Satan and it was both times in a psychiatric hospital.
If any of the "prophets" or religious holy men who talked with God or saw angels were around today they would most likely be medicated long before they got to found a religion.
Also reading some of the extracts in your post made me think of something I heard somewhere -
"Forget Satan - God is by far the most evil character in the Bible."
So very true. Got is not fond of killing people in horrendous ways but he also expects them to follow a codes and rules which he breaks all the time. He also exhibits very human traits like anger, jealousy, vengeance etc.
He does sound more like a literal angry (human) king than an actual deity.
We are apparently made in his image.
Hence the 'flaws' we have to overcome to be worthy of his presence.
You know, despite him never overcoming them.
.... Does that mean we are an experiment to see if he can be a better person?
Lol. So true. We must become better than him in order to be worthy to join him. It's insane logic.
@corina I don't know, maybe... It's tough to read someone who is eradict to see what their true motives are.
Your absolutely right about being flamed for a post like this. But I think it's necessary to look at it from all angles. It makes more sense to paint the characters with mental defects than to throw away all logic for the sake of pure interpretation. I didn't want to keep dragging the blog, but if you read on Revelations--holy guacamole that book hits the zenith of schizoidism.
And I havent heard "Forget Satan - God is by far the most evil character in the Bible"before. I'm going to look it up! But yes totally agree, and I think the Abrahamic trials is a perfect example of God's kind of evilness.
I think it was either on the Simpsons or Family Guy don't remember for sure.