Ebbie - My opinion of the Old Testament God (with the exception of some of the inspired passages in Proverbs, Psalms, and a bit of Genesis) is basically this:

He is (at least as depicted in those pages) a vicous, dogmatic, paranoid, tyrranical, insecure, murderous, and totally insane supreme being made up by a primitive, violent tribal people who themselves, at their worst, embodied those very same characteristics, and therefore concocted a "god" in their own twisted image to prove how tremendously superior and special they were as compared to the various people whom they ruthlessly slaughtered in the process of stealing their land.

That good enough?

The Old Testament God has very, very little to do with the God that I believe in, who is the God of Love. Love does not judge, it does not condemn, it does not segregate or separate, it does not play favorites, it does not punish, it does not propose a "chosen people" or a "master race", and it does not justify mass murder in the name of some supposed grand ideal.