Here's one that I would like someone to explain to me:
God is compared to a loving father. The father of all mankind correct?
Then why throughout history have people, starting with the Jews, been killing other people in the name of God? Yes, why would God even will it as he does in the Bible? Afterall he is the loving father of all mankind.
I grew up with the view that it is necessary for God to send some people to hell in order to lavish his made righteous with gracious love and entrance into heaven. But in the Bible it says that all are created equal. There is not righteous not even one. If that is so, what is different about a Christian? A Christian is someone who has said "yes with their mouth and believes in their heart that Jesus Christ is Lord". But what if someone doesn't say "yes" to God. Does that all of a sudden make them less righteous than the one who did say "yes" to God? But that wouldn't make since, because noone is righteous of their own accord but rather through Jesus, the loving Father of all mankind.
As a father of just two young children, I understand that I wouldn never punish the one to let the other one know how much I loved him. It would also never matter to me what either one of them did, no matter how bad, each of them will always be my child. And even if they should, for some reason, never want anything to do with me again and leave me completely out of their lives, I will continue loving them for as long as I have breath. This is grace! Even a thankless, disrespectful, embarassing child is loved by a loving father. If not, the father isn't worth his salt.
So if God is the cosmic Loving Father, why should he be held to a lesser quality of love than I? Why should he get to chose to kill some for the sake of others? That really just doesn't make since. Or maybe people have made something out of God that he really is not. If you look at the church today and how so much is based on holding to the right rules and wearing the right close, going to the right concerts, etc. etc., then it's easy for me to see how the people during the bible writing days were also merely trying to gather their people around a common set of mores and measurable values.
How else can it be explained that The Loving Father could will so much death even genocide?