Has Our View of "God" really changed?

In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since—Voltaire

The Hebrew Scriptures, included as part of the Christian Scriptures, proclaim "the LORD had commanded Moses” to “put to death” a man discovered gathering wood on the Sabbath day (see Numbers 15:32–35). One only need to peruse the Scriptures to find many other instances where the command to put others to death is attributed by people to “God,” even though the Decalogue commands “You shall not kill" (Ex 20:13). Did God, who Christians profess is "love" (1 Jn 4:8), really command his creatures to kill one another, or did those writing these passages project their own desires and worldviews onto their images of "God”?

Did God send the "Son" to be murdered on the cross or did the “principalities and powers”—the domination systems of the day—while invoking the authority of their "gods," murder Jesus for being dangerous or challenging to their way of life? Why are we so surprised that "God" is still being heard today by "God's enforcers" as commanding them to "put to death"—to murder, exclude, shun, shame, condemn, oppress, marginalize, or otherwise punish—"unholy" people; in other words, people who are not “holy like us”?