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I mean this is a relatively easy question to answer. God is a cruel dictator. It doesn't really speak to if God can do those things, or if God is real. Only to God's character.
if there was a god, then humans would be to him as lab rats to humans - except with more power and a greater degree of control.
If humans starve, torture, maim, infect, lobotomise, test bioweapons on the lab rats that they have near-godlike power over; then why expect elsewise from their god.
did you ever watch humans playing grand theft auto?
Neither NPCs nor lab rats are sapient creatures.
The Old Testament God is clearly a harsh parent that will ask you to do inconsiderable things to prove your loyalty, and will just destroy whatever doesn’t fit his vision. He is not the good guy, nor the bad guy I guess. There’s no Hell or Satan in OT, right?
Anyway, I can only imagine a teenage having a fit that his terrarium’s humans aren’t behaving like he want them to, then growing out of his tantrums within a few years.
Yes, Satan appears as the snake in Genesis, goes up to God and cons him into a bet that Job will disavow God if everything is ripped away and God goes along with it. Hell, I believe is referenced a few times as Sheol. In the NT, Hades appears as well as the lake of fire and the place where there's gnawing and nashing of teeth.
God does open up the earth and swallow nonbelievers in the OT, along with a bunch of other cruel shit, but I don't recall a place of eternal torment in the OT.
I don't believe there is any part that says the serpent is supposed to be Satan
Oh that's right. It's in Revelation (new testament) that describes Satan as the serpent of old, relating back to Genesis.