The book of Job in the Old Testament tells the rather curious (and subversive) story about Satan coming to God and making a wager about righteous people. Satan says to God, basically, "Of course he's righteous. Look how much you've blessed him with children, wealth, and good health. So what?"

So God makes a wager with Satan, go ahead and take away his children, his wealth, and his health, and we'll see about it.

So Job loses his wealth and all of his children are killed, and then he's struck with a horrible disease.

This is the "preface" to the story in the book of Job, which is like one of the philosophical dialogues that was a popular literary form in the past. Various friends come to him and discuss the nature of evil and God and so on.

But what is amazing to me is the preface itself, due to the subversive way in that it portrays God. God just blithely makes a wager with Satan that wipes the man out. His sons and daughters are killed as the result of this wager.

Now, what kind of a god is that?