One of the less comprehensible claims made by Christians, both ancient and contemporary, is that the god of judeans is "bad" and "punishing," while the god of Christians is good.
If we look at the text, we find that the Judean god was punishing when those who could be presumed to have accepted the contract with him violated that contract. The "punishment" was not random, nor was it capricious.
In contrast, if we look at both Greco-Roman gods and the Christian construct of God, we find something different: Greco-Roman gods behaved with more-than-human capriciousness, not limiting behaviour to human jealousies, but going as far as inciting wars.
God as a Christian construct goes further than that: giving his only son to be killed (John 3:16), he engages in act that the Judean god prohibited Abraham from committing.
How is it possible to claim that a God who intervenes in and rejects human sacrifice is "bad" and "punishing" while calling "good" a later construct of that same god, predicated on the same texts, who performs the same act that he had previously repudiated?
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