God is "I AM". He is not binary.
"God is a God of death not life." and "God is a God of life not death." are equally absurd positions -- and, certainly positions which no creature of His is worthy to espouse.
"Pigeonholing" God (and his motives) thusly is as absurd as calling gravity, "evil" or "good". The same gravity that powers the graceful slalom skier down the course, also splattered jumpers from the WTC across the pavement in Manhattan.
Your initial statement,
"If life emerged from otherwise nonlife-bearing chemicals because God started the process this way, then we have an inverted exegis which makes most of the Bible rather useless if not absurd."
Is precisely as preposterous and invalid as is the "God is a God of death not life." to which you extended it.
It is particularly unworthy of a believer to demean God Himself as an attempt at refuting a particular position on how God's Creation proceeded.
His Name is "I AM"!
In the love and full respect of Christ and our Creator, I rebuke your attempted argument.
Spirited: “If life emerged from otherwise nonlife-bearing chemicals because God started the process this way, then we have an inverted exegis which makes most of the Bible rather useless if not absurd.”
TXnMA: Is precisely as preposterous and invalid as is the “God is a God of death not life.” to which you extended it.
Spirited: You are very long on emotion-fueled presumptuous attacks but woefully lacking to the point of nonexistance on logically reasoned refutation. If you wish to be taken seriously at all you will address your obvious failure.