The Kinder God of the New Testament

[Psychonaut]

Romans 9:20-21

"Nay but, O man, who are you that replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?"

So basically God builds them to burn them. and if you talk back, who are you anyway?

16It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads,
17so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

and Revelation 14

9A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: "If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on their forehead or on their hand,
10they, too, will drink the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. They will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.

So, if a desperate father gets the mark so that he can buy food for  his children then god will torment him for an eternity? The god of the NT sounds worse than the god of the OT
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Bah beat me to it.