Before continuing chronologically I feel this is a good time to look at the essential qualities of this God!
Exo. 32:9-15 states: "And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff necked people: Now let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation. And Moses besought the Lord his God and said, Lord, why doeth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand? Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swearest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it forever. And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do onto his people."
How could a God who was not evil intend to do evil? With his human qualities, Moses makes the God repent. This does not indicate any superior thinking abilities or ethical traits on the part of the God. Here Moses is only able to avoid the disaster of his God wiping out the entire race and then making a great nation of Moses alone by telling his God that the Egyptians would state that for evil purposes did he bring the people into the desert to wipe out one and all.
Isaiah 30:27 says that the Lord is coming from afar, burning with anger. His lips full of indignation, and his tongue a devouring fire. Not to wonder, the Canaanite God Yammu was depicted as an evil dragon. Jeremiah 42:6 says that a promise is made to follow the lord whether he is good or evil, just so that it may go well with them.
Jeremiah 42:10 says that the Lord admits he did evil toward the Israelites... "I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you." A good God does not ever have to be excused for the evil he has done. The Gnostic stated Evil does not come from Good nor does Good come from Evil.
Jeremiah 42:17 says that if they go to Egypt, none will escape the evil of the Lord. Evil deeds are the threats this lord employs in order to make his people follow him.
Ezekiel 4:12 states: "And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shall bake it with dung that comes out of man, in their sight." This is a proclamation made by the lord. After pleading by Ezekiel, where he tells the Lord what a good worshipper and great follower of the law he has been, the Lord finally relents as we read in Ezekiel l4:15, "Then he said unto me, lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shall prepare thy bread therewith." This not only indicates this was a vindictive God, but notice also the fact Ezekiel has to indicate to the God how devout he has been. The God depicted by the Church today would have known these things.
Seeing that this God does not have the moral and ethical qualities of the people I know it is indeed surprising anyone can worship such qualities.
Furthermore telling children that such a God has to be worshipped messes up their sense of justice; Telling people these actions are just is not only a lie but distorts reality within the human mind. Not only is there not a real God to worship in the Bible, the material distorts humanity’s natural ability to tell right from wrong!

Best RG