Now wasn't there a bunch of people living in an area and the leaders told the Israelites"you must kill all those people but you can spare the virgin girls,and ,oh yes,the tribe gets to keep all those other people's stuff but bring it to us leaders so we get first pick?"
I don't think a god that sanctioned that is exactly good-but I can easily conceive of lustful men making such an order and claiming they were inspired.
God repeatedly punished the Israelites for various evils they and their leaders committed,so don't even try to tell me every word and act of those leaders was proper and just in the eyes of God.
There are always a lot of vindictive spiteful hateful people who use religion and the fear of eternal punishment and retribution by some god,any god, as the means to impose the will of the fallible ,power-hungry scum.
If there is anything more pointless and futile than a god who would create a universe and a people only to rule them through terror of future punishments,with the reward being membership in an eternal cheering section ,then I haven't thought of it.
Whatever God desires of us I am pretty sure it doesn't involve commiting acts of surpassing brutality.
No problem; this isn’t a religion forum, so we don’t have to have an extended argument. I just wanted to put in my two cents.