I would add to pay close attention to the part about God hardening Pharoah’s heart in order to ensure that he will refuse to let Moses’ people go. God deliberately ensures the course of events that leads to the genocide of the newborns.
Also, the story of the fall from Eden starts from the premise that before the fall, man was incapable of knowing good from evil. Which, if God decides which is which, means man was incapable of knowing he was supposed to obey God. Then man disobeys god, and all humanity forever must suffer for it, because God said so. This isn’t a God that wants people not to suffer, it is one who sets things up so that great suffering is inevitable.
I would add to pay close attention to the part about God hardening Pharoah’s heart in order to ensure that he will refuse to let Moses’ people go. God deliberately ensures the course of events that leads to the genocide of the newborns.
Also, the story of the fall from Eden starts from the premise that before the fall, man was incapable of knowing good from evil. Which, if God decides which is which, means man was incapable of knowing he was supposed to obey God. Then man disobeys god, and all humanity forever must suffer for it, because God said so. This isn’t a God that wants people not to suffer, it is one who sets things up so that great suffering is inevitable.