Many of the violent acts in the Bible are the result of evil human choices and decisions. Using our analogy of the Bible as a library, much of the violence in the Bible library is in the “history books” that record all kinds of events and activities that humans did. God did not inspire the writers of the Bible to “clean up” the story to give us a filtered version of human evil. That actually makes me trust the Bible more, knowing that the difficult parts have not been edited out.
