The entries below describe actions, commands, and statements attributed to God in the Bible. Each one is cited chapter and verse so you can read the passages in context and decide what to make of them.
Actions
- God drowned every child on Earth
- God killed every firstborn child in Egypt
- God commanded the slaughter of entire cities, including children
- God ordered the killing of infants and nursing babies
- God demanded 32 virgin girls as war tribute
- God commanded the killing of all boys and non-virgin women, keeping the virgin girls
- God killed 70,000 people to punish their king
- God sent bears to maul children for name-calling
- God killed a man for trying to stop the Ark from falling
- God told Abraham to kill his own son
- God killed a woman for looking over her shoulder
- God hardened a man's heart, then punished him for it
- God had a man executed for picking up sticks on Saturday
- God killed David's baby for David's sin
- God killed Job's ten children to settle a bet with Satan
- God killed two priests for burning the wrong incense
- God opened the ground and swallowed entire families, including children
- God sent venomous snakes to kill people for complaining
- God sent a plague that killed 14,700 people after a rebellion
- God sent a plague that killed 24,000 people for intermarrying
- God killed Ananias and Sapphira for lying about a donation
- God had seven of Saul's descendants hanged to end a famine
- God stopped the sun so Israel could keep killing
- God's angel killed 185,000 soldiers in a single night
- God sent a lying spirit to deceive a king
- God sent an evil spirit to torment Saul
- God cursed all women with painful childbirth for Eve's sin
- God threatened to smear feces on the priests' faces
Laws
- God permits buying and owning people as permanent property
- God allows beating your slave as long as they don't die
- God set a price for a father to sell his daughter
- God requires a rape victim to marry her attacker
- God prescribed stoning for adultery, blasphemy, and homosexuality
- God prescribed death for disobedient children
- God declared women unclean for menstruating
- God commanded that a non-virgin bride be stoned to death
- God permitted soldiers to take captive women as wives
- God forbade disabled people from approaching the altar
- God permanently excluded men with crushed testicles from the assembly
- God commanded a woman's hand be cut off for grabbing a man's genitals in a fight
God's own words
- God punishes children for their parents' sins to the third and fourth generation
- God calls himself jealous
- God says he creates calamity
- God hates people before they do anything bad
- God regretted making people
- God takes credit for making people deaf, blind, and mute
- God says "I will laugh at your calamity"
- God chose one nation and rejected all others
- God predetermined who would be saved and who would be damned
New Testament
- God deliberately deceives people so they will be condemned
- Most people go to destruction
- God prepared a place of eternal fire
- Everyone dies because of one man's mistake
- Women must be silent
- Slaves should obey their masters
- Wives must submit to their husbands
- Jesus said he came to turn families against each other
- Jesus said you must hate your family to follow him
- Jesus compared a Canaanite woman to a dog
- Jesus cursed a tree for not bearing fruit out of season