"Only in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes." ~
Deuteronomy 20:16
God has committed and orchestrated crimes so that people can learn from his justice.
For example:
1. Genesis 19: Lot's Wife
The whole Sadaam and Gammora thing could have been avoided; but, well, god felt that the evil should be punished for their misdeeds. That's logical
according to god and it showed Lot obedience. When god told Lot and his wife not to look back, Lot's wife did anyway and turned into a pillar of salt.
Now, if I had two children and one child did something where I punished him, that's fine according to most parents. If I told my other child not to look and he did, why would I punish him? Out of curiosity? Because he disobeyed me? What about "looking back" caused him to be punished and in Lot's wife's case killed
just like the people god killed in Sadaam?
2. Abraham's Son Genesis 22
Now, people justify this all the time but it never sat right with me. If I wanted my child to obey me and wanted him to do something for me to show his obedience, I would
never ask him (if he had a child of his own) to take his own child, bring it to me, slaughter it before me, and then say "because you
did you will be rewarded." If anything, I would reward him because
he choose against my command and valued a life before he valued my words.
Maybe a christian can learn from human sacrifice, but to me that's barbaric.
3. Deuteronomy 20:16-18 A short excerpt of killing for the promise land
Now, some argue that it was because of the people who heard god's voice that they took the land; therefore, they took the blame off god and put it on the people. That doesn't make sense. If the people killed without god's command, they'd have god to answer to. Like with Lot and a whole other loads of sins, the Isrealites where commanded to kill. Whoever told them to do so, how, and why doesn't take out the fact that one, they were ordered, and two, they did it.
Of course you may have seen the movie The Ten Commandments with Charlsten Helsten. Very good movie and classic. Though, the people need not die because they worshiped idols.
God does commit crimes but in scripture he does so to teach a message. Whether the christian takes it as justice or ignores it is up to them, but the crimes are there point blank.