The bible is a moral book

The creator of morality, God, in the Bible is responsible for horrendous thingsIn Genesis 7, verse 4 it reads "For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. " While it may be justified to kill off the adult humans, since they were evil according to the story, it is not justified to kill off all of the innocent babies/children and animals. There's no way babies or children could have been evil at this time, yet God killed all of them off. Next, God gave an order to the Israelites to "attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys. " (1 Samuel 15:3) While, again it may be argued the adults were evil and causing harm to the Israelites, what were the children and infants and animals doing exactly? It was completely unnecessary and unjustified to kill them. In 2 Thessalonians 9-12 it reads "The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness. " Apparently god sends delusions to those who are sinful, which is deceptive and dishonest. How are the people who are sinful expected to ever repent if they are sent delusions to believe in lies from God himself? God also completely destroyed everyone in Sodom and Gomorrah. Genesis 19: 24-25 reads "Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. " Since he destroyed all of the inhabitants, once more, the babies and children must have been killed. Then God also ordered Abraham to kill his own son, which seems to also indicate an evil god. God is also the one who hardened Pharoah's heart, it wasn't Satan: Exodus 10:1 "Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him" In Exodus 21, there are many instances where God commands the death of people: for smiting their mother or father, steals and sells a person, curses their mother or father, and many other instances. I could easily point out many other instances where people are to be stoned to death or killed for disobeying God, but I'm sure you know of them, so I will not provide anymore since it would be tedious. Finally, in 2 Kings 2, it reads: 23 From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. "Get out of here, baldy! " they said. "Get out of here, baldy! " He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys. " In other words, prophet of god was being mocked, and he called a curse on them in the name of the Lord and God complied by sending two bears to maul all of the boys just for mocking the prophet. How can a book be moral when the character who is supposed to be a role model, does such horrendous acts? Not just god, but other characters in the Bible who are supposed to be role models do horrendous and immoral actsAs mentioned before, Abraham was commanded to kill his son. The bible talks about how he was going to do it. This essentially teaches it's okay to murder your child if someone who's an authority figure commands it. Additionally, in Genesis 19:30-38, it talks about how Lot's daughters got him drunk, and proceeded to have sex with him. Not only might this be considered rape, but it's incest. God does nothing to condemn this act, and these are people we are supposed to view as good people and good role models. In Acts 3:23, Peter tells us that those who don't "hear" Jesus, will be destroyed. In other words, whoever doesn't follow Jesus will be destroyed. Is it moral to force people to follow you or die? I contend it is not. Romans 1:31-32 essentially states that homosexuals and their supporters are worthy of death. Does killing someone for simply expressing love in a sexual way to a member of the same sex really justify saying they are worthy of death? Can any book which has so many blatant violent promotions and questionable ethics be considered a Moral book? Sure, there are many good things about the bible, but there are so many terrible things as well. The good things in it don't suddenly make it a moral book, there are too many terrible and horrible acts within it.