Why do Christians trust YHWH?

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The original meaning was that God is just. You call it unjust by deliberately misconstruing it. If we're simply addressing an accurate translation of the original text, that it's not circular.

This is a fairly common response to charges of divine immorality, and I think it misses the point; the original claim is that god is just, not the original meaning. We're presented with an account, in the bible, that we can use as evidence to evaluate the claims about the character of god, namely that his actions were just. When a person says that god is immoral, that doesn't mean they're misconstruing the text, it just means that they aren't taking the claim as- pardon the pun- gospel.

What we're saying is that the claim and the evidence we're presented don't match up; the bible has an unreliable narrator.