To be more precise, this "command" was given to Joshua, since Moses did not enter the Promised Land. If I'm not mistaken, this is in the Book of Joshua; feel free to read it if you wish. The Jews, on the other hand, were captivated by the local women, and therefore did not fulfill the "command," but instead began to intermingle with the Ammonites. I don't blame God for human sins. It just seems that way to you because I allow myself to question the "Holy Scripture." I'm simply saying that the "Scripture" is sacred only when you agree with its consistent development of the relationship between man and God. I presented two paths: pagan and Jewish (Christian, Muslim). For me, the pagan path is more logical and simpler because I believe that God created the world from himself, and the world is part of God, not his creation. Besides, paganism is organically suited to man; it involves understanding God through nature, people, and phenomena, and thus ascending to God's perfection. There is no antagonism towards God in paganism because God is all-powerful and perfect, and only man can comprehend this perfection. In the Jewish path, it's the opposite. God has an antagonist – the devil, who was once an angel and whom God cast into the abyss. But not only that, God decided to make this "fallen" one his tool for "forging" a slave out of man, that is, a being obedient to his will. It turns out that as soon as God created man, he immediately began to subject him to trials(!). This seems illogical for a loving being. "Love believes all things, hopes all things...it does not seek its own...love never fails." Could this be the same God who inspired the Apostle Paul to these amazing words, who, having just created man, immediately subjects him to trials of faith and sends a serpent to tempt him (if this serpent is the devil, then it certainly could not have crawled out of the abyss without God's will; if it is an ordinary "talking" snake, then it could not have spoken without God's will, being a snake)? Something doesn't add up here. It's not me who "criticizes" the scripture; it criticizes itself by describing God as cruel, unfair, and suspicious. If God is like that, then what should man be like? About the "blood of infants," I read it in the History of the Church, published by the Moscow Patriarchate. Regarding free will. Man has one will, and it is free. And this will can make mistakes, desire good, curse, believe, doubt, love, hate, strive for perfection, "go with the flow" – and so on.