Four questions for Christians

[Tonus]

There absolutely should be two standards. The problem is, Christians hold humans to the higher standard, rather than God (note the frequency with which Christians compare God's actions to those of imperfect humans in order to justify them).

I think that they run into a problem when they claim that god personifies good. There are actions that would be considered good and actions that would be considered wicked. But where god is concerned it is not the action that determines morality, it is the identity of the person performing the action. Killing an infant would be wicked in the extreme... unless god does it, or orders it, in which case it has to be a good thing.

To present god as being capable of wicked acts is to make him capable of evil. And that makes it difficult (if not impossible) to love him for who he is. And then the offer of heaven and hell becomes a matter of coercion and not love. You wouldn't serve god because he deserves your love, you'd serve him because an eternity in heaven sounds a lot less painful than an eternity in hell. So god has to be good. And that leads to rationalizations and beliefs that I find difficult to reconcile.