How do people think they can "judge" God? I'm not asking "why do they think they have the right". Rather, I'm asking "why do they think they have the ability". God is omnipotent and omniscient. All are created by God. The implication is that humans are then, naturally, less powerful and less intelligent than God.
In what scenario would human beings rise above the moral code of God, that we could say to Him, "HEY YOU! WHAT YOU'RE DOING ISN'T RIGHT! THIS WAY IS BETTER"? The only way we could do that is if God permitted it. (There are debates about whether God actively upholds every event in the universe or if He simply allows them to happen, but that's not relevant here. The point is, God has the power to control what happens. Sometimes things aren't always what we think they should be, and we don't always know what He is planning, but omnipotence remains constant.) God's moral code has no flaws, but even if we entertain the idea. If God's moral code has flaws, why would He ever allow us to know abut them? Why would He allow ordinary people to just realize one day that He was wrong all along? Wouldn't He, instead, keep us all in the dark (INCLUDING NON-CHRISTIANS, BECAUSE AGAIN, GOD IS OMNIPOTENT) and not allow any of us to ever know about those flaws? It doesn't make sense for "an omnipotent yet somehow flawed God" to coexist with "less powerful and less intelligent beings waking up one day and realizing that their moral codes are better than God's". So then, it doesn't make sense to claim one's moral codes is better than God's. And yet many people do just that, yelling at God for being "wrong" about so many things.
So where does all this come from, then? It seems to be caused by one of two things:
1) Misconceptions. Somebody doesn't fully understand God's intentions, or reads some faulty interpretation of a verse, etc, and thus gets an incomplete picture of God's morality. This seems to happen most often with people who rush to conclusions and make assumptions, but can absolutely just be a sincere misunderstanding.
2) Pride. We all disagree with things God does. There is no Christian in history who has watched a loved one die a slow, painful death from disease or injury; no Christian who has heard of an injustice being done to vulnerable people like children or the elderly; no Christian who has lived through or learned about some natural disaster like a tornado, hurricane, earthquake etc; ............. and felt no compassion about it. No Christian who simply thought to themselves, "Eh, God's smarter than I am, so I'll just go about my day." We all disagree with decisions that God makes from time to time. Babies don't know not to play with sharp objects. Babies don't know not to shove crayons up their noses. Babies cry a lot when their parents make them stop doing things like that. In a similar way, God does things we don't understand. The difference is, when the initial anger/confusion subsides, those who know God, or wish to know God, seek to learn from the experience, and use it to grow. Meanwhile the prideful just throw their hands in the air and go "NO!!! YOU'RE WRONG!!! BECAUSE YOU DISAGREE WITH ME!!! AND I'M RIGHT!!! IF MY OPINIONS WERE WRONG, THEN WHY DO I THINK THEM???"
We need to try harder to remove these things from our lives. They're based on falsehoods and logical fallacies.
May God bless and guide you all according to His perfect will! In Jesus' name. Amen.
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