Does God reward murder? Cain.

Does God reward murder? Cain.

The O T seems to indicate that He does.

If you read the myth of Cain and Able, we see Cain is protected and rewarded by God as Cain is allowed to live and prosper after his murder of Able.
In fact, God says that a harsher penalty than an eye for an eye will be given to any that slay Cain.
Sevenfold as I recall.

Further in the O T as God leads armies against various tribes, He seems to reward those on His side and tells his followers to bash the heads of babies against rocks and to enslave other peoples women and girls after slaughtering the men. A nice bonus for barbaric acts.

I find this strange and seek to know why He would do so.

Instead of this strange advise, you would think that a miracle working God would just cure the minds of the enemy instead of murdering them. This would show the veneration for life that He wants man to have.
A much more civilized way of doing things to my mind.

This strategy of curing instead of killing could also have been applied to Sodom and in the days of the genocidal flood of Noah?s day.

What is with this God who would rather express His love for mankind by killing us instead of curing us?

After all, He has that power right?

Why not be know as the God that cures instead of the God that kills?

This would go quite far in converting non believers who see an immoral God in the Bible.

Why then would God don the epithet of genocidal maniac instead of great doctor and why does God seem to reward those that murder both in His name and as with Cane those that do not kill in His name?

Regards
DL