Why do Christians trust YHWH?

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I don't think he meant they thought differently than what they wrote down. They were just wrong in what they thought was just and loving and merciful.

Ding ding ding! Million dollar prize.

I don't have to make excuses for the barbarism of the past, none of this "oh, it was a different time, you can't measure their behavior by current moral standards" excuse-making. I absolutely can; murder and slavery doesn't suddenly become okay just because these guys were technologically and socially backwards, especially not when there's a powerful supernatural being tooling around who can do better.

It doesn't matter the source, there are at least a few things that one can deem objectively wrong.