[MineralMan]

"The God of the bible does not have a human nature."

Oh, I'd disagree with that.

That deity had a creative impulse...as do humans.
That deity was in charge of humans, so it made laws.
That deity got ticked off when its underlings didn't follow its laws.
That deity killed every human on the planet, except one family, because folks didn't follow its laws.

Sounds pretty human to me.

[scottdeus12]

Mineral,

People were created in God's image, not the other way around.

How'd you become an Atheist after being a Christian, by the way?

[The Red Zone]

That deity was in charge of humans, so it made laws.

There was only one rule at the start. There had to be something to choose. One can't love an amorphous mass.

[zeeba neighba]

Well you are showing that the fault in your understanding lies not with God but with you.

First of all, as He reminds us, His ways are not our ways. He is Holy, something which we can never be, on our own. The Laws were not given to punish man or even restrict him, but were given to allow him to attain some measure of God's Holiness, if he could keep them. Man thought he could, but of course God knew better. Ten laws, under human lawyers, became 3oo+, then soon there were thousands of them.

Men weren't killed for not following God's law. They were destroyed because they loved themselves and evil, more than they loved God.