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>He is infinitely merciful, but that is not His only quality.
You have it goofed here, if God has multiple actually distinct attributes that can sometimes conflict with each other than He isn't metaphysically simple and not One - God is not a disparate collection of various attributes but rather one unified reality wherein all of these attributes are in perfect harmony

If God is merciful, His mercy must be equivalent to His justice, His justice must be equivalent to His love, His love must be equivalent to His holiness; there is obviously no possibility of God being "sometimes merciful" or "sometimes loving" or "sometimes just", for in Him there is no shadow of turning (James 1:17) and He is always the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8) - if we start to separate the divine qualities from each other we will very quickly run into a lot of theological and philosophical problems where God's attributes are somehow conflicting or opposed to one another (as if, for example, mercy could ever be opposed to justice, or holiness)

>King David was sincerely contrite and repentant, yet sin still required death, so the child born of the sin died, this too is fair. God knows what would have become of that child's line, and in death, the child goes to God.
On a more personal and far less philosophical note, while this example may technically be "fair" in some way, the idea of "justice" or "fairness" ever demanding the painful death of a child downright gives me the heebie-jeebies and I am certain that there must be some alternative explanation for this event that doesn't imply... that