Verse 34:6 in the book of Exodus accurately describes God.

I had an unexpected event come up, so I apologize if my responses this round are very skimpy. My opponent claims that God is not merciful, just, or slow to anger. First, "just" is not mentioned in the verse, and is irrelevant. Even so, all my opponent's claims appeal to objective morality, which cannot exist except derived from God. God is just because God defines justice. "God commanded the Israelites to slaughter every living thing they can possibly slaughter, leave nothing alive that breathes, take the people they haven't slaughtered, including women and children, enslave them, and finally, eat the spoils of their enemies - "Like God has commanded you." [4]" These people regularly burned their firstborns to death in honor of Ashoreh and did other unspeakable crimes in their pagan rituals. God was hardly being unjust in wiping the culture from the earth. The Flood wasn't genocide, it was omnicide. Everyone was killed equally. The reason: they were all doing incredibly immoral practices. God knows more than anyone (including themselves) what they have done and what they deserve. More on Pharoh through children next round; I don't have time to respond right now. It is as if the first sentence of the Torah (Old Testament) reads "WARNING – God is not El Rachum Veh Chanun (merciful and gracious), nor Erech Apaim (longsuffering), and he sure is not Rav Chesed (abundant in goodness)." And second sentence might as well be "But at least he is Emet - he is true - especially when he promises the brutal destruction of his people when they disobey him, and when they do obey him, the brutal destruction of their enemies (who in reality, by the way, have done nothing to warrant being called enemies)." God would know better than you who was enemies and what was deserved. As Richard Dawkins said, "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." [10] Jealous: No, zealous for the good of His people. Petty: It's God. If He's doing it, it isn't petty by definition. Unjust: God defines justice by being God. By what standard do you call God unjust? Unforgiving control-freak: He forgives Israel of breaching their covenant with Him many, many times. It's okay that God is in control because He's also omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, and morally perfect (by definition). God is not "a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully". God cannot be any of these things according to his own definition. Also, none of these are negative traits combined with the other attributes of God, because God would know better than you. "I await proof of God's mercy, grace, etc." You accepted burden of proof. I don't have to prove a thing. According to the Bible, however, God is constantly merciful to Israel's breaching of their covenant relationship.