Our culture does not shape the full expression of God’s nature and character to the world.

As we take steps of obedience in response to what is shown in the Word of God, this opens into further growing clarity of what Christ has already made available to us through Himself that is shown in the Word of God. So the Word of God continually shows us the small steps of obedience that remove what is causing the true and actual nature and character of God to be obscure to us, which is our sin.

Our need for God is complete. Our North American culture prompts us to identify where we have a need. But our need for forgiveness, for repentance is complete. Our whole life needs to go to the cross. Through the cross it is not what we estimate our need to be but the whole of our life, separate from God by our sin, that is satisfied by Christ’s death in our place.

Turn to the Word of God and begin obeying every way that you can find to submit your life to Christ. That obedience will open into aspects of your entire being, your thinking, lifestyle expectations and intent that were never considered before. Christ cannot have part of me. I am His or I do not know Him. This is a frightening thing when we survey how easily our culture permeates into our way of following Christ. Our life is segmented into sections where we allocate resources and time to observe what Christ has given us and yet the real events and issues of our life are kept for ourselves.

This will never survive the real and actual nature and character of God. There has never been a greater need for us all to turn to the Word of God and give ourselves to Christ without reservation or condition. We as a culture will face consequences that will not be removed. But our life in Christ is far greater than what we will experience here. This is only the beginning of a far greater drama that will only continue with him undivided through death when we receive eternal life now while we are living.

The result will be less attention to what we know about God and more about enjoying the companionship of Jesus Christ in every aspect of daily living on His terms.

http://godscharacter.com/article.php/20090503180048304

Also to claim that God is “hard hearted, harsh, vindictive, hateful and amoral” borders on the line of blasphemy. You obviously have little to no understanding of God’s true nature and His attitude towards His creation which can be summed up in 2 Peter 3:9:

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish , but that all should come to repentance.

* harden people to the gospel
* punish those hardened people

He claims that God cursed the Jews so that he could treat them for jars of wrath. He is, according to Paul, preventing Jews from believing, lest they be saved from wrath.

So you don’t have to worry about the NT God being too much of a softie. He is hard hearted, harsh, vindictive, hateful and amoral.