The reason the people of the old testament didn't know much of the character and actions of God then was because at that time God was not yet living in any of them to truly reveal to them who he truly is.
THE NATURE AND THE CHARACTER OF GOD DEFINE
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The reason you have not find that solution to that problem yet because you have not stay in that problem enough to figure out the solution from the problem.
Every invention and creation come from the act of the doing in the problem itself.