On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
Five gold(en) rings
Four calling birds
Three French hens
Two turtle doves
And a partridge in a pear tree!
Sadly, people get this idea of God being cruel and tyrannical in the Old Testament. They fail to realize His infinite mercy in what He's done, even when what He did appears terrible to our eyes.
Adam and Eve fell, but their fall was a fall forward rather than back; they had the opportunity to have children and "replenish the earth," as was their first command. The Great Flood in Noah's day came about because the wickedness of the world became so awful that it wasn't fair for the unborn children in the Spirit World to be born into it; God gave the people well over a century to change their ways, and nothing changed, so He cleansed the Earth to both give it a new start and save the people from becoming worse than they already were (believe it or not). And what I like about The Prince of Egypt is that it shows God's true love and compassion, and that the ten plagues came about due to Pharaoh's personal stubbornness and pride.
Nothing in the world can convince me that God was unfair in any of those situations. It was the hubris of His children that was the problem.
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