I think the whole point is that by your worldview, what you think and feel and claim to know are irrelevant. You have no agency in choosing what to believe about what is good, should God choose to tell you. You talk about “the real God,” but every Abrahamic religions agrees that God is ineffable and unknowable in almost all ways no matter how much gets revealed through prophets and messiahs and saints and miracles.
The Bible gives plenty of examples of God lying, deceiving, betting, changing his mind. I don’t know how much you’re coming at this from a fundamentalist viewpoint (Bible as literally God’s words, as opposed to human interpretation of divine revelation). But if the Bible is literally God’s words, then since it is internally inconsistent, it cannot be used as a reliable source of moral rules (as Shakespeare said, the devil can quote scripture to suit his purposes), only best guesses. If it is human interpretation, then we should assign its passages as much credibility as we assign any other interpretation of weird phenomena experienced by the ancients: not much, since we readily discount their views on almost everything else regarding the nature of this universe. Either way, we’re left in a world where even if he does decide it, God hasn’t actually given us a way to know what is or isn’t good. We have to guess, and be rewarded or damned forever in response to the quality of our guesses, but we have to do it while deliberately not using the faculties we use to determine everything else in life about what is true.
I think the whole point is that by your worldview, what you think and feel and claim to know are irrelevant. You have no agency in choosing what to believe about what is good, should God choose to tell you. You talk about “the real God,” but every Abrahamic religions agrees that God is ineffable and unknowable in almost all ways no matter how much gets revealed through prophets and messiahs and saints and miracles.
The Bible gives plenty of examples of God lying, deceiving, betting, changing his mind. I don’t know how much you’re coming at this from a fundamentalist viewpoint (Bible as literally God’s words, as opposed to human interpretation of divine revelation). But if the Bible is literally God’s words, then since it is internally inconsistent, it cannot be used as a reliable source of moral rules (as Shakespeare said, the devil can quote scripture to suit his purposes), only best guesses. If it is human interpretation, then we should assign its passages as much credibility as we assign any other interpretation of weird phenomena experienced by the ancients: not much, since we readily discount their views on almost everything else regarding the nature of this universe. Either way, we’re left in a world where even if he does decide it, God hasn’t actually given us a way to know what is or isn’t good. We have to guess, and be rewarded or damned forever in response to the quality of our guesses, but we have to do it while deliberately not using the faculties we use to determine everything else in life about what is true.