The same problem with Zeus and the box he gives to Pandora. These gods are just not suitable carers or guardians. I ask you, makes you long for the days when the Nephilim roamed the Earth. At least you knew they were probably BAD unlike this conditional bullshit from the Abrahamic lot..

If this God did exist CRPS (Cosmic Racial Protective Services) would have removed the Jews from his care and placed them in the care of a foster God for their own protection after the garden of Eden fiasco. Who leaves the tree of knowledge unlocked let alone let's the kids play in the same room with it when the gods gone to the store for smokes?

If he drowned teenagers once in a while, he would get my vote.

Personally I can't use that which does not exist as a role model.

No

"Dash their brains out against the rocks." Not great child care I think.

The OT god is not a good role model for anything. He was a jealous tribal god and in some scriptures his name comes out literally as "Jealous."

What I’ve noticed is how quickly children pick up on someone reflecting reality ..as opposed to what appears to them as make-believe behaviour expectations. Makes them a lot easier to be around, too.

There’s nothing even remotely resembling ‘a god’ having the least effect on our existence, or theirs. The sooner we, as parents, reflect that ..the sooner our children focus on the realities of life..

Talked with my youngest this after noon ...I did good

I think that people project onto god whatever their experience of fathering is. If they had a good father, they see god as that good, loving, strong but tender father. If they had an authoritarian, controlling, shaming father, then they see that in god. And so on.

In other words they have an ideal of fatherhood and project that onto god, and cherry pick the parts of scripture that support that projection.

No do not use god as a role model. if you do your kids will end up in prison. teach them your own values and ethics in accordance to reality

I think any parent using "GOD" as a role model has some deep and serious issues - but not necessarily their own fault; too many people have been raised with religion telling them what to do, and the cycle continues... I have never viewed the xtian god as benevolent, not kind and nurturing in any way. The xtian power has always been through the use of threats and promises of hell and damnation for so-called bad actions. Or the promise of some mythical "heaven" for well-behaved children. I preferred to show my children by example what I thought was the good way to live. I have three very well-adjusted, contributing, and happy adult children. I like to think that I was able to raise them well without any religion in their lives; morals and ethics, definitely, but no religion!!

Yeah, I also heard that in the book of Romans, God made one of his kids drive to the convenient store to get him more beer when he was to drunk to do so. That sounds like terrible parenting and I don’t think we should follow that model.

Are you kidding? Look how he treated his only son! What a dick.

In my opinion, if you are one who could/would believe and accept such irrational and unsupported nonsense, then you most likely would be a parent and a person that would do exactly that, as many believers demonstrate every day.