oppostate: It was not a command of God that the children and mothers should be slaughtered....God did allow this to happen
So what's the difference between ordering it or just standing apathetically by and watching it happen? God didn't have the power to stop it if he wanted to?
No matter how you argue it, god is a dick.
And, hamsterbait is correct. Moses was barred from the Promised Land because he didn't give enough credit to the egotistical, narcissistic, self-absorbed, vain, everyone-look-at-me god, Jehovah.
In a childish tantrum because he wasn't getting enough attention, Jehovah took it out on Moses. God had no problem with infanticide and genocide, but what really pissed him off was Moses allegedly stealing some if His thunder.