God is love. God is just. God is merciful.

[RobbyPants]

These are claims that the bible and quran make, right? But the ations of this god don't seem to line up with most modern audience's opinion of those words. If he was just a person, and did the kind of things to other people that he does in the bible, he'd be called evil. I have been told that he's not a person, yet if we can't compare him to anything, how do we tell he is good?

Simple: you define anything God does as "good" and say that he has a different set of rules, cuz reasons. This is why I've basically given up discussing the "morality" of God with theists. There's not really much discussion to be had.

One thing I've learned in all of my discussions is that in Christian morality, the actions one takes are less important than who that actor is. For example: take the killing of babies:

Skeptic: When God flooded the world, his goal was to punish the wicked, yet he killed countless babies.

Christian: God created humans, therefore he can kill them. Also, the babies are now in heaven, so they're better off, anyway.


and


Christian: Abortion is murder!

Skeptic: Don't the babies end up in heaven? Aren't they better off?

Christian: Who are you to play God?!

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It has nothing to do with actions. Christian morality follows two rules:

1) God does whatever he wants.

2) You do what God tells you and swear an oath of fealty to his son, or he'll torture you for infinity years (see rule #1).