Is God a mass murderer?

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

In a word, no.

Every living human (outside of extremely young infants), from the most devoted Christian to the most devoted Atheist, has sinned against god. For most christians, upon death, that list of sins likely numbers somewhere in the hundred thousands. For non-christians, it is much longer. The only just action for god to take is to immediately kill (and send to hell) all of us, for as it says in Romans, "the wages of sin is death". All of us have earned nothing but death. And if god were to kill us all right this moment, he would be fully justified in doing so. There is no credible argument that anyone would be able to make that Humans deserve anything less from god, for we have truly disrespected the world he gave us.

But, instead of killing us right here and now, or at least sending 100% of us to Hell upon natural death, God has, from the beginning of the human race, generously allowed us to substitute an alternate sacrifice for our own life, and go to heaven, even though we don't deserve it. In the old testament, it was animal sacrifice. Nowadays, Jesus, who lived that perfect life that all of us have not, works as an eternal sacrifice for all of our sins. That's not the actions of a mass murderer, that's the actions of an extremely merciful god, one whose mercy NONE OF US (including myself) deserve. Instead of trying to carefully think through every single action of every single day to avoid the great impulse to sin that is so woven into our flesh, we have the gift of jesus's sacrifice. All we are asked in return for this extremely generous gift is 1) Believe in god, 2) Believe that Jesus died on the cross to save our sins, and was resurrected soon after, 3) Fully confess our sins and continue to be repentant for them during our entire lives. That's a pretty small price to pay for the absolutely inexcusable actions that all humans have committed towards god.