A merciful God protects His people, and His love flows over them. Think about this. How many more babies should God have allowed the Egyptians to kill before also mandating justice be served? The Egyptians showed no sign of freeing the Israelites and releasing them from service.
Their god is vengeful, petty and jealous.
Hmmm, so it's humanity's/the chosen people's fault YHWH is such an arsehole?
Because its behaviour is too egregious.
Maybe it's because most people have lost the ability to read from right to left. I find it odd so many cannot see what the people were doing.
They were inventing gods.
Look, squirrel!
Because his invented behaviour does not send a message of invented love. It is incongruent and therefore hurtful to contemplate.
To explain apparently malicious events, to rationalise empire and as a control mechanism.
It would if you properly understood the Hebrew, and began thinking outside the box of the modern Western world. Basically, you have invented another God for yourself--one that you don't have to believe. Old Testament stories very much about understanding ourselves--i.e., human behavior--ourselves then, ourselves today. We start the ball rolling and are then astonished by the reaction.
