User blog comment:SouthWriter/No Supernatural Intervention/@comment-1777104-20110214020005

The challenge is reading the story and not letting God "get in the way." There are those that exist, good guys and bad, that just never experience God's open presence. Starting with the assumption that creation happened the way the Bible says it did, but without God or Satan revealing themselves, I could have taken it to a post-apacolyptic world a lot harder to work with. Instead, I let the flood happen with Noah figuring it out on his own. After that, the only real change in things was to have Hagar give birth to Isaac instead of Sarah. The story of the fall of Jerusalem, and even the healing of Hezakiah will be a point I will have to move around. I have already stated that Senacarib takes Jerusalem, thus shortening Judah's time as a nation. No miracles, of course, means no Jesus - and that's hard. But then, the whole idea of no one knowing salvation is even an option is hard. No conjecture is contemplated by the 'believers' in the time line - they just assume the creator made everything because it makes logical sense. The more they find out about things on earth, the more they are convinced that God exists. No telling where this would lead, I suppose. I let another editor posture a renaissance 400 years earlier (less superstition, etc. ?) giving science a head start. I haven't figured out what to do even about the discovery of America! No religious angles, but all ideas are welcome.