God tiptoes and dances upon a thread as thin as fishing line, flirting with being judged in two extreme manners. On one side you have him being a cruel and malicious deity that inflicts punishments onto unsuspecting and undeserving victims. The other side he could be looked upon as a humane and fair lord, who punishes only the deserving. Critics have read, reread, studied, and analyzed the Old Testament until they were blue in the face. Many have come up with the fact that God acts in contradictory ways. He will rein terror against those who have disobeyed him in parts of Genesis, Ezekiel, Exodus and Job; nevertheless, he will display the forgiving and benevolent side in the same books of the Old Testament. Lord Acton once said, "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." God had absolute power over everything in the universe. Some critics say that he did abuse his power and step over the line to an unjust and inhumane Lord. God did sometimes punish those who did not deserve it, acting callously toward his own people in parts of the Old Testament.In the Book of Genesis there are some things that God does that makes him unjust and unfair. God created everything and when he was done, "God looked at everything he had made, and he found it very good." (Genesis, 1; 30) God made everything abundant for Adam and Even in the garden, except one thing. He instructed them not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. In the tree God created a serpent that tempted Adam and Eve to try some fruit from the tree. They gave into the temptation from the serpent and tried some fruit. If God created everything that was good then why would he have created temptation that ultimately got Adam and Eve in trouble? Moreover why would God have created a serpent that would go against his word and try to have Adam and Eve get into a dilemma? God acted unfairly to place a serpent and temptation into the garden if he knew would only lead to p...
