The omniscience of god?

That was what I thought when I read that bit recently. It is even strange when you look back a few plagues to say Exodus 9:

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Exd 9:4 {NIV} But the Lord will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and that of Egypt, so that no animal belonging to the Israelites will die.' "

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So YHWH can tell who owns what cow - but not whether a person is an Israelite or not? It doesn't make sense.Unless, of course, it was a retrodicted explanation for pre-existing somewhat mysterious traditions The early god of the bible often seems to be less than omnipresent. He seems to have a finite presence in clouds or tabernacles or the like and limited knowledge but with ultimate wisdom (further back than Cain and Abel...Adam hid from God). It is the later works that move him from a superman to a amorphous all knowing super big brother.

Or maybe the fact that people believe YHWH's existence and live their lives and adopt social policies based on the writings of the bronze aged people and beyond who worshipped him. As opposed to the others who don't pose as much of a social concern.Or, yeah, maybe its because he's worried that YHWH is really real. Believe whichever you like - I'm sure your biases will err you towards the latter.But if there was a large group of people that said we shouldn't mass produce insulin because it went against Thor's will or that glasses were an abomination and should be banned because Wotan's one-eyed nature proves it. Then you would definitely see a lot more activity in debunking Thor and Wotan. You seem to be of the opinion that whenever god isn't omni-present or omniscient this is god seeding clues about his future incarnation as man. Do you have any evidence that this was gods plan all along or is it just apologetics designed to patch up unusual or confusing character inconsistencies in a book?