Why does God deal with his creation only through the Bible (Judeo/Christian model)?

[Christy (Christy Hemphill)]

@jeddle

and especially turned off by the blood and gore we seem to readily accept of a loving creator “God” as expressed in the Old Testament, followed by the idea of eternal torment in the New Testament.

Not all Christians believe the conquest of Joshua is really God’s idea or that all non-believers will experience eternal conscious torment after death. There is some latitude there.

You might be interested in the latest BioLogos podcast interviewing progressive Old Testament scholar Pete Enn’s: Peter Enns | God is Not a Helicopter Parent - BioLogos

There is a current discussion of the gory bits of the OT here: Inerrancy and mass slaughter