there is no way around it. joshua and God ordering the killing of children in the OT is immoral.

the killing of children in the OT is immoral. no matter what. i read many apologist defenses of it, and it simply doesn't work. i read BibleHub on the defense of the killing of all the population of the city of AI. And honestly, the best they could come up with was that God will resurrect them and bring them under his kingdom. But honestly, is that also not what the Canaanites who sacrificed their children also believed? They believed the sacrificed children became the gods' emissaries upon the earth, a highly honored position. in the end it all boils down to my god is real, yours is false. and not a moral argument. how can you know for sure your god is the real one? more than these guys who believed that their gods were the real ones. you can even be sure that external reality is real! the killing of children is immoral, no matter what.