Is God Amenable to Negotiation in the Old Testament?

God's decision to allow human victory from time to time is actually a manifestation of something approximating humility or at least mercy but humility. The straighter the game you play the more likely you are to win and so maybe part of the reason that God lets Abraham bargain and and even Jacob is because they've started to play very straight games, he says. "I don't think I can go beyond the question actually because it's so complicated that I don'tthink I can formulate it any better than you already did"