Did I miss anything?

[Esquilax]

Actually, a rather chilling thought just occurred. Did this god - at least within the context of the story - need to experience pain and death because it had no prior knowledge of them and how they feel on a human level? Because if that is supposed to be the case, all those immoral commands to slaughter in the OT just got ratcheted up by several orders of magnitude in the cold-blooded psychokiller league.

Not just in the OT, because as of the NT we now have a god, in this scenario, who knows how bad pain is to humans, who went through what his followers will play up to be a massive, torturous sacrifice... and learned nothing from the endeavor. If what you say is correct, god went through all that and came out with no additional empathy for people, no desire to do charitable works like preventing the pain of humanity... no change at all. Now that's crazy; even in fucking fairy tales when the protagonist walks a mile in someone else's shoes he goddamn learns a lesson and changes.

So which is it, christians? Do you have a god who knows how utterly horrific the pain that occurs on earth is, and does nothing? Or a god that learned first hand in the form of Jesus, but lacked the empathy to learn from that at all?