God's Morals?

[Escipión]

A completely corrupt Generation.. Again if you had an opportunity to kill Hitler when he was young would you? Now imagine an entire planet of people like that, save one family.. what would you do then?

And also what makes you think any of the people who died in the flood are "innocent?" The only account of that event is in scripture and scripture tells us they were all corrupt (more like animals than people.)

well, if he was going to intervene in spite of all, he could have just turned them magically into righteous people instead of killing them through a flood.

He didn't even have to kill Hitler, he only had to make a couple of art teachers let him in that art academy where he wanted to study, or "touch his heart" and call him to serve as a pastor.

Defining God as good is a total falacy, because the very people who affirm that also believe that everything that God does, by definition, is good. Goodness is goodness in opposition to evil, so not everything can be good. Commanding the jewish people to slaughter and pillage a whole village and not leave anyone alive, children and old people included, can not be good if good is at the same time being gentle and loving as the Bible describes Jesus. The term good loses its meaning and becomes empty.

Did you know that a terrorist can also be good and solidary? Towards, of course, his own people. God may be good to you, but he's the most terrible tyrant for the 90% (being generous) of all the people that have ever existed who are now burning in hell under unspeakable pain for the only crime of either not having loved him, if we accept that we really have freedom to follow him or not, or for not having been predestined by him for salvation. In both cases we find a God that is the contrary of love: because you don't, by definition, love someone who at the same time you're willing to damn eternally; and because you can't possibly love someone who you let be born just to torture him forever after a few years of life on earth.

 

[Bro_Sam]

I used to be a Christian

See 1 John 2:19.

How can anyone consider God moral while at the same time be appalled by the atrocities committed against the Jews during WWII, the genocides in Africa, or any other horrific historical event? One example is the story of the flood; God regretted making humans and therefore decided to kill everyone except for Noah and his family because they were the only ones deemed righteous. But instead of just killing the unrighteous of mankind, God decided to also kill all of the innocent children. Why did God feel it was moral to kill innocent children as bystanders in his mass homicide?

He didn't. Children are not "innocent bystanders". They are sinners, too, and are just as morally culpable for their sin as adults.

Why does God give us a moral code to follow that He, himself, does not adhere to as well? Isn't that hypocrisy?

First of all, your question is based on a false premise. You still haven't shown that God does this.

Second, it isn't hypocrisy because God has authority that we do not have.

If I tell my eight year old son not to drive my truck and then I drive my truck, is that hypocritical? No. Of course it isn't because it's my truck and I have the moral and the legal authority to drive it.

Likewise, because God is holy, righteous, and just and is sovereign over His creation, He has the authority to punish sin. We do not.