Ya that's a pattern I'm seeing too. Yes God does act supernaturally in the stories but it seems he gives plenty of choices. Like, it's actually fascinating. God will be narrating how these curses will be brought upon someone and then there's a sudden transformation that person undergoes such that the deterministic future God lays out changes fundamentally towards a blessing. It goes to show that while God technically has the power to do whatever he pleases he doesn't just weild such power hedonistically. It's extremely admirable and it makes a lot of sense. If you're at the top of the dominance and power hierarchy and if you aim to be excellent and to keep your position, you have to be just and you have to be discerning and responsible with that kind of power.

I'm thinking about what if God kept changing the nature and structure of the universe through supernaturally altering physics each day such that there was no underlying pattern or logic whatsoever. That's just unfair and perhaps cruel. In this context, the question of why God would allow all sorts of things becomes pretty clear. Like God isn't the genie in the bottle, he has to be negotiated with and he's contractual. Because if he wasn't then things that no one wants to get out of hand could get out of hand quickly. So the characterization of God in the Bible is pretty amazing to say the least.