Why would anyone "want" to believe in god? Count all the people god wants to murder

Hello, friend. I. First, I would point out, that God does not murder anyone - that is, to kill someone unjustly. Being the omniscient and therefore perfectly just Judge of humanity, he will not, and cannot treat anyone wrongly. Yet, God can and has killed people due to judgment. I will now look the examples you brought up: II. The Sabbath: The Sabbath day was a covenant sign that God made with Israel - for they found their rest in God when he rescued them from bondage to Egypt, and on the seventh day of creation, God rested. This is the reason they were punished by death if they worked on the Sabbath. For God clearly commanded them to keep this sign - to work on this Day was to break the sign between God and Israel, and so were given capital punishment. Concerning cashiers who Macdonald"s, no they don"t deserve death. 1.) They are not Israelites and were not under the Sinai covenant. 2.) In the Christ, we are no longer in bondage to the old covenant, on the contrary, we are under the new covenant, and Christians are not required to keep the Sabbath - for Christ proclaimed to be Lord over the Sabbath. Saint Paul clearly addresses we are no longer bound to the Sabbath Law (Col. 2:16-17). Yet, he does not disregard it; he respects it and solutes it for its place in redemptive history. III: Rebellious Children: This again is under the old covenant and no longer binding to Israel. Yet, when described in Deuteronomy 21 (e.g. v. 18, 19,20), it clearly shows this wasn"t someone who cursed at their parents a few times; this was someone who was a menace to society - someone who was in a "deep hole" of sin. Also, the parents couldn"t just decide to start stoning him. I"m so, there death was not an act of unreasonable vengeance or anger; rather, the elders had to decide that justice must be served. God specially revealed himself to Israel; he is infinitely holy, and so his people had to be greatly distinguished and holy like the Creator of the universe. IV. Homosexuality and Adultery: Again: Israel"s law before Christ. They were to be killed as homosexuality is against the Creator"s sacred ordination and covenant of marriage - that is, one man and one woman. ""Tis the same with adultery. V. Concerning Children: Again, this isn"t a one time thing. The elders had to judge the menace according to the law, and determined if they must be put to death. Indeed, it was the holy Creator"s sacred law to honor their father and mother. VI: Worshipping False gods: Yes, if they rejected the true Creator, who personally revealed himself, they would be put to death. They *knew* their God was the true God - worshipping a false god was spitting in his eye. VII: Your Two Reasons for Claiming God does not exist: 1.) claiming it is stupid is an ad hominem fallacy - not an argument. 2.) I believe I explained the Mosaic law given to Israel quite well. VIII: God is insane and loving - your claim of contradiction: God"s love does not negate his justice. We seem to often forget who the infinitely holy Creator of the universe is and who we are - finite, created, God-dependent, limited human beings. God"s holiness will be upheld, and so all sin is disgusting in his eyes. Yet, though we deserve eternal damnation, he offers us undeserved mercy and grace and love by sending his divine Son to die on the cross to save humanity from their sins. And if we accept his substitutionary death and his resurrection to life three days later (proving salvation and forgiveness is given through him), we are given the free gift of God by the grace of God alone through faith alone in Christ alone. And so, we are given eternal life, and most importantly, God himself. For the ultimate reason Christ came was to bring us to God - not heaven. Through Christ alone we are given ultimate satisfaction and everlasting joy and supreme happiness in God alone - now and forever. IX: Your conclusion: Fear? What fear? 1 John 4:18 tells us that fear is not found in the one who has experienced true love. True Christians obey God because they find him as their supreme treasure and all-satisfying pleasure and take enjoyment in following the words of our Lord - we don"t do it because we fear hell - there"s nothing to fear when we are in the hands of the good Shepherd. Christians shall not fear hell whatsoever! For God offers eternal life unconditionally to the one who has accepted Christ as their all-satisfying Lord. They will never lose it. The good Shepherd promises to not lose one sheep in his flock. X: Why accept Christ? Because our purpose in life is to have a relationship with our Creator and enjoy him and bring glory to him. We can only find true happiness in God; we have a heart designed to be satisfied in the Divine - nothing else fits this God-shaped mold. As for proof of God"s existence, no one can disprove his existence either - and so we need faith based on reasonable evidence such as: immaterial laws of logic, nature, mathematics, etc. (the universe is "bound" to these laws and has to obey them all the time [e.g. law of non-contradiction]) - these laws are immaterial and cannot arise in a naturalistic/materialistic worldview , uniformity in nature (the universe continues to work in a uniform, regular way - but why? (It just does it not a rational answer in an unplanned universe), compexity of organisms (even a single cell that"s supposedly "simple", but in reality unbelievably complex - it"s not just a sack of cytoplasm). Origin of life (abiogenesis has never been observed and so for the one who claims life can arise by non-life has the burden of proof [concerning abiogenesis] lying on them), origin of the universe (the atheist typically answers we don"t know, but we could expect something timeless, immaterial, spcaeless, and unbelievably powerful to create the universe - as he made time, space and matter - God), etc. also, I"m surprised you keep asserting he"s basically immoral, when the atheist must accept morality is subjective, and life is meaningless (exist or don"t exist - it doesn"t matter - we"ll cease to exist eventually and remember nothing), no hope (of ultimate justice, evil coming to an end, and supreme happiness forever), and purposeless (we are just chemical reactions in a dog eat dog world - "murder" is just us dancing to our DNA, as Richard Dawkins puts it). We deserve death - we committed high treason against the Maker of reality - the one who is existence and who is prime reality - the all-holy Creator God. God upheld his holiness in Israel, who through the Messiah would come about and to whom he personally revealed himself - and so they were expected to worship and obey their Creator. And yes, in God"s sovereign perfect eternally ordained plan, the Prince of Peace, Christ Jesus, will return at his second advent, deliver perfect justice, and establish the eternal kingdom of God when he restores creation - evil and death will cease to exist and forever we can enjoy our Creator and bring glory to him for all eternity - all because of Christ - our Savior who shed his blood, our King, our Lord and God.