text: is god a torturer and a murderer? there is no doubt that god is the one responsible for evil.  it is written in the bible itself.  lamentations 3.38-"is it not from the mouth of the most high that good an evil come?"  isaiah 45.6-7 - "i am the lord and there is no other...i make weal and create woe, i am the lord, who do all these things." (god)  here is a quick list of the atrocities god is charged with in a court of logic: demanding and sanctioning human sacrifices (leviticus 27.28-29; judges11.29-40), killing innocent firstborn children (exodus12.29), sanctioning slavery (exodus 21.2-6; leviticus 25.44-46), sanctioning the selling of one's daughter (exodus 21.7), death for heresy (exodus 22.20), death for violating the sabbath (exodus 31.14-15), death for cursing one's parents (leviticus 20.9), death for adultery (20.10), death for blasphemy (leviticus 20.16), and death by stoning for women only who had premarital sex (deuteronomy22.20-21).  is god really loving and just?  it doesn't seem so to me. the answer to your question is yes.  he has tortured, tormented and killed people throughout the ot.  he once killed some people when he was gambling with satan.  he has joined in wars, killed animals and plants, and he allows innocent people to go to hell and be tortured by his buddy satan.  as loving as he is supposed to be, he has committed more atrocities than hitler.  but then most people don't trouble themselves to actually read the bible, they just say they are christian.