Genocide in the Old Testament

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I think you can simplify it with "if god says it is wrong, it is wrong. If god says it is right, it is right. If god takes a particular action, that action is right by default, unless you think you can punish god yourself." I think that what many Christians describe is covered by that. God is above humanity in every way you can imagine. And the rules do not apply to him because he makes the rules. And the first rule of God Club is that the rules don't apply to god.

I think a case can be logically made that god is to us as we are to whichever "lower" life form we want to choose. But I think that it requires that we reject or redefine nearly every descriptive property we would apply to god. Loving. Generous. Concerned. I don't think these apply to god the way we apply them to each other, if we are basing our understanding of god on the principle that might makes right and that a creator has the right to do as he wishes with his creation.

But then the God of the Old Testament commanded the Jews to kill every last, man, woman, child, baby, dog and anything that moved. If God says it then it has to be good and you can't disagree.