Within the context of a story understood to be fiction:
Smiting and wrath are actions. They don’t require emotions exactly. Break the rules, get punished. Fork around on a ladder, find out how fast the ground moves. Not because the ladder is angry, but because you forked up.
Being “upset” could simply be people writing about their own understanding of God. Remember it was all written by people. And not like they were copying words as God literally dictated them. But through “revelation”. They were “given” “understanding”. As in the ideas kind of miraculously kind of popped onto their heads. So it’s all limited to what they could comprehend.
Within the context of a story understood to be fiction:
Smiting and wrath are actions. They don’t require emotions exactly. Break the rules, get punished. Fork around on a ladder, find out how fast the ground moves. Not because the ladder is angry, but because you forked up.
Being “upset” could simply be people writing about their own understanding of God. Remember it was all written by people. And not like they were copying words as God literally dictated them. But through “revelation”. They were “given” “understanding”. As in the ideas kind of miraculously kind of popped onto their heads. So it’s all limited to what they could comprehend.