I have read this book many times and continue to find contradictions and atrocities comanded by god. What all powerful all knowing and loving god would condone the following atrocities .... JOSHUA 10:10-27*God helped Joshua slaughter the Gibeonites.JOSHUA 10;28*With God’s approval, Joshua put the city of Makkedah" to the sword and totally destroyed everyone in it. He left no survivors."JOSHUA 10:30*The Lord gave the city of Libnah to Joshua. Everyone in the city was "put to the sword."JOSHUA 10:32-33*God gave his approval as Joshua killed every man, woman and child in Lachish with the sword.JOSHUA 10:34-35*Everyone in the city of Eglon was killed by the sword of Joshua and his army.JOSHUA 10:36-37*God approved as Joshua killed the king of Hebron, its villages and every citizen. "They left no survivors."JOSHUA 10:38-39*Joshua took Israel’s army to attack Debir. They killed everyone.JOSHUA 11:6*God commanded Joshua to defeat the enemy at the Waters of Merom. "You are to hamstring their horses and burn their chariots."JOSHUA 11:8-15*Joshua’s army, under God’s command, did not spare "anyone that breathed."JOSHUA 11:20*"For it was the LORD himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the LORD had commanded Moses." All this from a god who throughout this book contradicts himself. Where was his love for mankind when these atrocities were comanded.