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Grow up Geek,

I love my child, but if he is disobedient, he’d better have a modicum of ‘fear’ about him. Does that mean that I am not ‘loving’? It does not.

You, unfortunately do not seem to have read the Bible, and further more, you seem to wish to construct your own ‘fuzzy-bunny’ version of God that you can be comfortable with. You are not in a position to construct ANY god, much less change the God that is. As I said before, He is as He is.

I love my child, but if he is disobedient, he’d better have a modicum of ‘fear’ about him. Does that mean that I am not ‘loving’? It does not.

This is an inane comparison. No matter how disobedient your child is, you're not going to subject him to physical torture in a prison which you've caused to be created - not for a second, let alone for all eternity. The entire point is that the God you envision is savage and abusive beyond all reason or proportionality.

You, unfortunately do not seem to have read the Bible, and further more, you seem to wish to construct your own ‘fuzzy-bunny’ version of God that you can be comfortable with.

I've read the Old and New Testaments, front to back, repeatedly over the course of my life. I've constructed nothing - I merely observe that you and others like you seem bent on taking the very worst extremes of human cruelty and sadism and and portraying them as basic features of your version of God, so you can then cower in fear of his punishments.