The Passover.Exodus Ch.12 As I see this God is being accused of murdering innocent Egyptian children.
I do not believe that God did this.Can we discuss?
This is a problem with understanding God as a person. The logical extension of personhood is that God is just your average Tom, Dick or Harry, "just a slob like one of us, a stranger on the bus, trying to make his way home", sort of regular guy.
Now if Tom Dick and Harry were drinking with us one Saturday, and playing poker and darts, and this trinity of good ole boys came up with the idea of how cool it would be to zap out all of Egypt's first born, then the logical extension would indeed work. this defines murder.
But if God was not a person, but a force of nature, like a tornado, then it would be absurd to accuse God of murder, wouldn't it? Tornadoes don't murder. They rain and blow on the rich and poor, the good and bad, randomly.
Egyptians gods were forces of nature like that. Morals did not play a role in Egyptian religion. You say the incantation right, dance the right steps, and the rain god is tickled pink and rains on you. Too much rain? Do you magic spell to please the sun god, and so on and so on.
But Moses introduces Pharoah to his personal God, who expects good behavior. That changes everything. Neertheless, God is still the creator of tornadoes and cliffs, and the brute force of nature and space and time which can have very, very deadly effects.
That is just not something that Tom or Dick or Harry or Nancy or Harriet are capable of. The Alpha and Omega is anything but an ordinary Joe. He is intimately aware of all possible outcomes of all possible combinations and permutations of events. He is not only aware of things that we do not know, but of things that it is humanly impossible for us to ever know.
If you believe in God that is just who God is. The question then becomes, do you trust that God is good, and that whatever course he takes is the most auspicious and generous and loving and benevolent action that is possible in a world in which all the permutations and combinations of any event are known with certainty that only God can muster?
Do you trust in God? If you do, then trust that God is not a murderer. The terribleness of God is real, and as horrible as a child getting burned to death by a forest fire, but if a Christian trusts in the goodness of God, then that same Christian trusts that God is not a child murderer.