In the Bible, we find Yahweh boasting of raising up mighty armies to come and bash the heads of infants on rocks, cut open pregnant women, rape, pillage, torture, and molest people. As far as lying goes, God constantly deceives us in a variety of ways. He gives false prophecies and empty promises. He raises false expectations and hopes only to later dash them to pieces. He intentionally disillusions us.   As far as sin goes, Yahweh was standing right there with sinful Adam and Eve making them a set of clothes to wear after He’d cursed them in Eden. All throughout the Old Testament we find Him interacting with sinful human beings. In the Gospels, we find Jesus walking around in a nation where most people were defying God. Can God be in the presence of sin? If He couldn’t, we’d all be dead. It’s only God’s hands on involvement in our sinful, sordid little lives that keeps this world from being torn apart.

When it comes to God and suffering, we can hardly say He doesn’t enjoy seeing His own creatures writhing in agony. God made Hell for the primary purpose of showcasing the misery of creatures He was tormenting on a continuous basis. In Revelation we find Jesus presenting Himself as kicking back in Heaven enjoying the public show of souls suffering in Hell. At the end of Isaiah 66, we find Yahweh describing a metaphorical heaven in which He showcases the misery of those who defied Him. In both the Old and New Testaments, we find Yahweh and Jesus stomping all over human beings in the figurative winepress of God’s wrath. Our blood is described as spattering Their garments. So does God enjoy our suffering? In certain contexts, He absolutely does. Trying to prove God’s goodness by what He is capable of doesn’t work at all.