Our ancestors believed in gods who were vengeful who always needed to be appeased. It wasn't until Abraham appeared as our father in faith that there began a belief in one God who was loving, not vengeful.
As many times as the Israelites turned away and sinned, God forgave them. God followed through on his promises and sent a Savior into the world so that we would not have to suffer eternal punishment for our sins.
All he asks of us is to turn to him and ask forgiveness. Just as any good parent, he wants us to be happy.
He gave us the blueprint for happiness in the Ten Commandments. All we need to do is follow them.
Then Jesus came and simplified them into a simple command to love others as he loved us. One problem seems to be that we choose who we want to love and Jesus didn't say to love the loveable, just to love. He even told us to love our enemies.
Then he taught us to pray and in that prayer, he tells us that we will be forgiven as we forgive. In chapter seven of Matthew's gospel we read, "For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you."
Again, it doesn't say that the people we want to judge must be innocent, but that the same standards by which we operate will be used on us. Are any of us without sin?
Since the answer to that is "No" then we don't have any right to judge. I personally am very happy to let God have that job. I have enough trouble taking care of myself.
