Am I Going To Hell?

[Wyrd of Gawd]

When did the biblical God character ever appear to be loving in any of the biblical stories?  He's always a maniacal prick.

Baptists, like most protestant faiths, focus on the loving aspects of Jesus Christ (God the Son) and use this as an aspect of God the Father.  The Holy Trinity.  Three parts of the whole.   It's a form of cherry picking.  But it makes followers of the faith have the belief that god is benevolent and a loving father figure.  Most religions like this do not encourage over analyzing stories that exhibit angry, vengeful aspects of the god you are following.

It always pays to remember that the biblical God character was simply a series of ordinary men who ruled the dominant Middle Eastern empire at various times during the Bronze and Iron Ages. So it's only natural that the God character is depicted as a crazy homicidal maniac because that's what those guys were.  

BTW, the Jesus character was a loony racist and religious bigot who was as loving as a rattlesnake.