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Third, we know that God was not behind the wiping out of men, women and children who occupied the Promised Land as the Jewish people came into to settle it, nor did He tell them to do this,

According the the Bible God told them to kill every man, woman and child in Jericho.

According the the Bible God told them to kill every man, woman and child in Jericho.

Not only, But see 38

God can engage in terror as He did in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, whose leaders also could have assumed that no god would do that, and in the Flood. And other events. Even insurance companies need to allow for such. But to say this was wrong presumes that God had no just reason, and does not make it work out for good for those who love Good, and thus God.

God also commanded His people to engage in acts of terror, but as said, this was not some dream in the night, but in a context in which God had made it so unmistakable manifest that He was speaking to them that there could be no rational atheists (not that some would not persist in attributing them collectively to natural causes), though that did not prevent Israel from acting practically as atheists! As we do sometimes.

And as God is sovereign, He allows the devil to steal, kill and destroy, as He did in the case of Job, whose protests were answered with a series of rhetorical questions that had one conclusion, "Since I created the Heavens and earth - without your help - you need to trust Me that I know what I am doing." And God blessed the latter end of contrite Job (who prayed for his theologically challenged accusative "friends") more than the beginning, replacing that which was taken with even more and better.

Meanwhile, the devil wanted Job to curse God and die, likely by committing suicide, and which is what the devil wants all to do in seeking to exalt himself. Who as he did with Eve, basically presents himself in the person of others as a savior from an unjust God (who would not "share the wealth" with Eve, or with the devil in his occupy the throne movement). And which he does thru militant angry atheists as Dawkins etc.

Or he presents his self-serving proxy servants as saviors from from those "oppressors" who represent God's rule, esp. in the sense of benefits and position being acquired by merit - which the devil in his "I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God... I will be like the most High" (Is. 14:13,14) rebelled against. And thus in God's economy what is realized under mercy and grace are just that, fostering a positive response of gratitude toward betterment, and versus such being a right due to the demonic victim-entitlement mentality, which the devil worked to seduce Eve with. But i digress.

Yet paradoxically, the charges of Divine injustice by angry militant atheists are due to the moral sense of justice which man at least initially has, out of which comes a sense of outrage at the seemingly senseless degree of suffering in the world. But to charge God, as God, with this is to presume that the one who gives life cannot take it, and omniscience, that in the light of eternity this cannot be just and that it works out for good.

(Also charges that God is self serving in requiring worship is absurd, as God needs nothing, (Acts 17:25) while making God your ultimate object of spiritual affection and allegiance and source of security is what is right and what is best for man, versus finite created beings or things.)

And it also is to presume an alternative.

God could have,

1. made us (and angels) with no moral standard or sense or deprived us from the moral ability to respond to or choose good [morally insensible].

2. granted us free moral agency, but never have given us anything to choose between [negation of moral choices].

3. called man to make the Creator their ultimate object of spiritual affection and allegiance and source of security is what is right and what is best for man, versus finite created beings or things, and provided moral revelation and influences. But always have moved us to do good, and never have allowed us to choose evil (such as make believing in God and choosing good so utterly compelling — like God appearing daily and doing miracles on demand, and preventing any seeming evidence to the contrary so that no man could attempt excuses [effective negation of any freedom to choose].

4. allowed us to do evil, but immediately reversed any effects [negation of moral consequences].

5. allowed us to do bad, but restricted us to a place where it would harm no one but ourselves [restriction of moral consequences].

6. allowed us to choose between good and evil, and to affect others by it, but not ultimately reward or punish us accordingly [negation of eternal consequences, positive or negative].

7. given us the ability to choose, and alternatives to chose from, and to face and overcome evil or be overcome by it, with the ability to effect others and things by our choices, and to exercise some reward or punishment in this life for morality, and ultimately reward or punishment all accordingly [pure justice].

8. restrained evil to some degree, while making the evil that man does to work out for the good of those who want good, and who thus love God, who is good.

9. in accordance with 8, the Creator could have chose to manifest Himself in the flesh, and by Him to provide man a means of escaping the ultimate retribution of Divine justice, and instead receive unmerited eternal favor, at God's own expense and credit, appropriated by a repentant obedient faith, in addition to the loss or gaining of certain rewards based on one's quality of work as a child of God. And eternally punish, to varying degrees, those whose response to God's revelation manifested they want evil, [justice maintained while mercy and grace given]. -http://www.conservapedia.com/Theodicy#Proposals

That was written by later scribes either in Jerusalem (J/E school) or by scribes later on (D) or by priests in Babylon (P - (JEDP). They did not come by the hand of Moses. There was an exodus but it was smaller than the Biblical account, and the same archeology that has backed up much of the OT has also shown this. You can't take what you want and discard the rest.

Those kinds of verses are like what we find in the Koran. Those verses said to kill everything that breathed and to show no mercy. No god would support what we find in some Suras and no god would support killing babies that lay in their mothers arms as the Jewish people occupied the Promised Land.