The God in the Old Testament is the same as the God in the New Testament. He is extremely scary, but loving in both.
Loving in the possessive sense, at best. The way you love a pet. But if your pet doesn't
worship cuddle,
blasphemesscratches up the drapes,
is the gay has an 'annoying' habit of keeping you up at night with it's yowling/scratching at the door, and is overall an
arrogant bunch of pricksarrogant little prick, well. You can't just put it out on the street, but damnit, if it's gonna
enslave the Jewspick fights with the other pets, and
commit sacrilegepiss on the rug, you need to show who's in charge of the household. You have to discipline your pets, damnit. Whether that means
destroying citiesscruffing them by the neck when they do something wrong, or
sending plagueslocking them up when they won't stop, then so be it. Especially when they have the
gall to not even bother looking guilty when they
try to place other gods before youtrack shit all over the floor, well? That just won't stand. They go in the
hellbox for the night.
And really, you only have room for
those least likely to sinone or two pets in your household? If someone
creates a speciesgives you a box of kittens, you're gonna have to
flood the worldgive the rest up for adoption. Maybe later you can see about
space colonization being plausiblegetting some more.
But, I mean, don't worry, you're not a bad pet owner! You make sure they have enough
nothingwittyheresorryfood and water, give 'em their
sciencemeds you've set up the
worldto be fun for them to play in, you've tried to make sure they won't
utterly obliterate themselves or be totally wiped out by diseaseeat anything poisonous for them by accident, and you try to make sure they don't
get outside the solarget outside where they might be
eaten by alien AIshit by a car. Yeah, it's getting a bit small
overcrowded given the way they've grown, but those magazines always exaggerate; how were you supposed to know they'd get this big? You don't
murder indiscriminatelybeat them, you try to give them lots of
spiritual wellbeing and guidancelove and care when you can, though work's been hectic lately. You aren't
utterly genocidalrough with them when you get angry, just
partially genocidalfirm. You only ever
impregnated a mortaldropped them once, and that was an
basis for the change in the fundamentals of the religionaccident, and they were
oppressing the Jewsscratching your face! You've tried to be extra
non-interventionistgood since, and you made sure they
learned about compassion from Jesusweren't hurt when it happened.
Died for their sinsTook 'em to the vet and everything.
Sure,
true miracleswalks in the park aren't that often, but it's hard to get the motivation up to go...and last time
attributed it to a mere scientific phenomenontheir paws were hurting so it probably isn't a good idea anymore, they're getting kinda
smartold.
He loved us enough to give us free will, and pay the harshest price when we abuse it. There are still consequences for sin everywhere though. About the mass slaughter, the bible mentions that they were evil. If you could go back in time and kill Osama Ben Ladin and stop 9/11 (without any other repercussions on the future or yourself), would you do it? That is kind of what it is like to have God tell you what to do. He know the future, so doing what he says is the best option.
EDIT: Osama ben Ladin. Autocorrect turned it into Obama ben Ladin
So those people were all of them, 100%, Osama bin Ladin-level evils? What with the gay sex and all? Not a single Good Samaritan in the bunch? Giving your pet access to the outdoors is nice, but it doesn't make you the perfect pet owner. Sometimes, when it means that they're likely to be hit by a car, it just makes you irresponsible. Depending on analogy, beating your pet when they run away and make you worry for a few days isn't that great either.
If you want to make it seem like a partner-lover thing, it only gets worse. And if we're his children; guess what? I find it profoundly immoral to ever beat your child to within an inch of their life (hell). For any reason.