Why did the supposedly 'pagan' philosopher Celsus have a loftier image of what god should be than the xtians...and Jews?
Quote:"God does not inflict correction on the world as if he were some unskilled
laborer who is incapable of building something properly the first time
around; God has no need to purify what he has built by means of a flood or a
conflagration (as they teach)."
--Celsus c 180 AD