...do they though? i would agree that the few abrahamics that have wrestled with god so to speak do come up with their own personal metaphysic which isn't what is taught normatively in order to reconcile these contradictions (not just in terms of god's nature and his actions in the bible, but even the problem of the historicity of the bible and it's relationship to other pantheons). pardon my very cynical elitism, but most people are very impulsive and just believe in the shit their parents taught them without question. this even applies to most atheists; many lose their faith because their parents just sucked at teaching them. if it was truly authentic, real grappling with the telos of existence, they wouldn't adopt socially popular ideologies so blindly. me personally, though, i gave up this abrahamic stuff after the compartmentalization started adding up to a point that it wasn't making any coherent sense. the last straw for me was the nephilim and how most early church fathers in every existing denomination believed in that, until augustine and john chrysostom realized how dumb it was. if it's the case christianity is some kind of preservation of what the apostles taught, how could something that massive in cosmological scope be lost?  when they dogmatism fell, so did the entire faith.
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