If the Bible were to be made into a movie, it would be horror on a level almost unheard of. With a villian unrivaled as most evil and cruel.

Killing people doesn't necessarily make a character a villain. There are lots of heros that kill. The judgment of moral value is based on why the character kills. In the Bible, God kills purposefully, and the reason for the death is always justified, because God is the standard of morals. Whether or not a human understands the reason is not relevant to the moral evaluation. I mean, it is problematic to analyze God as if He were a character in the Bible. I think it is more helpful to think of God as the setting, a setting that the characters are constantly interacting with, and desperately trying to understand and embody and live in communion with. The power of the Bible on Earth cannot be denied. More than any other book in human history, it has impacted our society and changed how we think, to the point where we don't even realize that all our judgments of ethical standards, and whether a person might be good or bad or do good or bad things, inherently come from the Bible itself.

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