John’s response to Dissident Heart was enlightening: I’d never heard of the demonic-in-Jahweh idea before. The further verses that DH quotes don’t seem to get beyond John’s response - all but 1 are referring to the judgement God brought on Israel through the exile; 1 Sam 16:23 can hardly be said to make God in some way criminally responsible for an evil act. The question then really is: is God culpable for bringing judgement - in the form of national disaster?
The scriptural basis for DH’s views doesn’t stand; the issue is more a philosophical one. Is it possible to conceive of a God who in himself is flawed, and one of whose attributes is evil/malevolence, for which he later makes himself accountable (on the cross)? I appreciated John’s affirming response to DH - and I did recognise that DH’s position had a practical end in view - which is to accommodate God to abused people. That God is able to identify with the abused in such a way that the cross becomes a place of transfer of pain is not a magic and superficial formula - it plumbs profoundly the depths of identification, and works in practice.

P.S. I did have this fantasy of a kind of cyber thought police: patrolling the net for heresy - swooping down on us in the act of propogating false doctrine. Maybe www.spanishinquisition.org or something of the like