Why don't the faithful hold God morally accountable?

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It only makes sense to those who follow Gods law and believes in him.

That really coulda been put into a new post for ease of reading. Forum etiquette, my friend. Forum etiquette.

I'll actually address the point later, maybe tonight, more likely tomorrow - for now, I go very shortly to watch Aliens with my wife, and addressing the idea of the nature of moral thought (as far as I think of it) would be a long-ass post indeed.

EDIT: The above was addressed to Ragtime, as Joker ninja'd me like a boss.

That is complete bull

One could make the same argument and say the politicians who banned paedophilia could freely engage in it, because they created the law and as such they are above it.

The rules are not here for God. They are here for us. You can't hurt God, you can't rape God, you can't murder God, you can't gossip behind God's back, you can't have an affair with God's wife(or husband), but you can all of those things to people. The rules are here for us because you cannot hurt the unknowable unseeable who reigns somewhere up there, but you can certainly do thsoe things to people.

He is above nature, and unlike us, God has a great alibi for all that God does.

Examples please...

"And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire." Leviticus 21:9

"Whatever/whoever emerges and comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the people of Ammon, shall surely be God’s, and I shall sacrifice him/her/it as a burnt offering." (Judges 11:31) It happened to be his daughter, actually.

"Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors. The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him." (Deuteronomy 13:13-19)

"Make ready to slaughter his sons for the guilt of their fathers; Lest they rise and posses the earth, and fill the breadth of the world with tyrants." (Isaiah 14:21)

"Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them all – old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch anyone with the mark. Begin your task right here at the Temple." So they began by killing the seventy leaders. "Defile the Temple!" the LORD commanded. "Fill its courtyards with the bodies of those you kill! Go!" So they went throughout the city and did as they were told." (Ezekiel 9:5-7)

Would you like any more?

I don't know if God is omnipotent... certainly with regard to the human future. He may be omnipotent, and know the future of the natural world, but I don't think he knows the human one, as we don't always follow the rules of the natural world, and make them up as we go along, often to the detriment of the natural world God built for us.

I would like examples. Judaism doesn't believe in original sin, that is a Christian concept, so I think you are talking about Christianity here. Just so I know where you are coming from, can you give examples of:

1.) eternal punishments for finite transgressions,
2.) slaughter in response to relatively small provocation,
3.) commanding his followers to murder gentiles in order to steal and/or rape their women),
4.) unmerciful (creation of suffering in response to original sin, death/hell in general) or just straight up immoral

That is all from the old testement how about from the new testement.

Why? According to the bible you have to follow the old testament as well. Even if you weren't, the bible also says that god doesn't change. You are worshipping the god that commanded those atrocities. Now justify his ordering of them, don't dance around the issue.

Your right but I foucus on the New Testement to most christians, we view the Old Testement as part of the history of our faith but we do not follow such laws because we go by what Jesus of nazareth taught that is what being a christian is.

...and part of what Jesus said was not to set the old laws aside...

True he came to fufill it but as Christanity grew threw out history it became more about the new testement some christians follow those laws some like me do not because the only way to the father is threw Jesus of nazareth in a way you can views those laws as a necessary evil.

How ever your not going to find many modern christians that follow those laws unless they are a fundie which I do not like at all for many reasons for the fact that they justify their crimes by using the old testement and avioding the laws of the new testement,

SO what you're essentially saying is "god is the father and he knows best but I know better than him"?

No I am saying that you will not find christians that follow the old convenent laws unless they are a funny a lot of christian have the right to disagree but still be obident to God by following the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth their are a lot of branches of Christianity.

I follow Gothic Christianity because historically the Goths where Christian.

but rather to put them into context, mostly with the new testament taking the lead, and square the two books. Original Sin is not a jewish concept, largely a new-testament inspired play on an old testament story. It is a balancing act that 2000 years of study has learned to balance, and some doctrines Christians accept, and some they don't.

Which amounts to what I said...