God does not determine right and wrong

[LadyForCamus]

Whoa.  Red herrings everywhere.  You’re “good by nature” god ordered the slaughter of babies.  Babies are innocent, whoever they came from.  Are you pro-life, or pro-choice, Banned?

You are a wonderful compassionate human being, and I react the same way that most people do to these stories in the Bible - with abhorrence...and questions.

But there is no point in telling anyone how much God grieves over people that ruin themselves to the point of being less than animals, because many people have already pre- judged God as evil, without a clue to what happened over centuries and to what extent evil had developed, and in what condition all life, babies and all, in such a society was - physically, mentally and spiritually.
The laws of heredity can be strong enough to predestine the character of the offspring.
The reason you and I cannot imagine such a thing is because we don't experience a lot of abhorrent crimes and we assume people are generally nice.
Unfortunately the world will become the hell hole that these ancient civilizations were, and until then we will probably not cry for justice and intervention.

People are far less tolerant of evil than God is.

The crime of the Amalekites wasn't dealt with until much later, but if we lived back then, and saw their society we would have begged God to wipe it out straight away and not years later.
But as I said, you and I are not exposed to this level of corruption yet.

Babies are innocent, does that mean that adult monsters should be saved, because they were once babies?

Bold mine. I’m saying that god shouldn’t order the murder of babies because...ya know...they’re babies. You’re making this a lot more complicated than it actually is.  I’ve never seen so many red herrings smashed into one post.  

Or should a God who knows their future decisions and character prevent them from existing? Or should he remove them from the earth and take them to heaven on resurrection day?

I can tell you what he shouldn’t do. Maybe, not order adult humans to murder the infants of other humans. It’s not that hard really. Pro-choice or pro-life, Banned? For the third time.

If it is any consolation, heaven will have millions of babies without their evil parents, and they will be looked after and raised in love.

Whatever twisted mental gymnastics, and rationalizations you have to make in order to defend the indefensible, I guess.  I’m gonna stick with: killing babies is bad.  Thanks.