As I was sitting in church with my mind wandering while the pastor was preaching, I realized why God’s so called bad behavior in the OT doesn’t do much for me.
I’m not left with any good alternatives.
Even if I could be convinced that God is capricious and cruel and has an anger problem, then what? What am I supposed to do exactly? Find an arbitrator? Bring him to court? Convince him to do better? Stand on my principles and refuse to bow down to such a God? Jesus’ advice to fear him who has authority to cast into hell (Luke 12:5) seems like pretty good advice regardless of whether God is good or not. I don’t seem to be left with any alternative that seems very good. Granted, it would certainly have an effect on my affections for him.
But if God exists, and he has authority to cast into hell, I’d prefer to be on his good side for all eternity.
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