Second, it requires that God be capable of love in that warm, parenting sense that is common only among to mammals and birds. The idea of a loving and forgiving God had a paradoxical origin in Judaism. It began during the exile, when Yahweh was at his least loving and forgiving. Previously he had been a deity of war, wrath and judgement, whose punishments and rewards were meted out on earth. They regard all things as straw dogs.
Suns explode as supernovae.
Over the history of the earth meteors have wiped out up to 90 per cent of species. This is not mercy, but it is not cruelty either. The cosmos has no emotions or consciousness with which to feel love or mercy, wrath or sadism. God does not love or hate anyone. For God is not affected by any emotion of pleasure or pain. . .