The God of Christianity exists.

1. How Old is Christianity? While Christianity is different from Judaism due to the New Testament, the Old Testament is still apart of it. It is the same God, and religion, the Old testament is apart of Christianity, so to say Christianity didn't exist then is false. Christianity just states more recent events that occurred. The New Testament is mostly letters by witness's of God. However the Old Testament is still apart of Christianity. Hence dating Christianity older than Egypt if you go by Biblical dating. As Egypt has been known as "the black land", which is also described as the land of Ham in the Bible. Remember the Old Testament is taken as literal history of the New testament. So to say the God of Christianity didn't exist then, would be false, after all it is the same God. 2. Historical Validation As my opponent does not disagree that the Bible has true historic event behind it there isn't much to say about this. However this strongly infers that the Bible hasn't been lost through oral tradition as many historic events that have taken place in the bible continue to be proven true, even once that would be considered rather insignificant, such as the layout of temple that Samson had pushed over. I would also like to point out that it centered around the Middle East. Many people say that God ignored the rest of the world. However from the Middle East it spread to every corner of the world. This may not have happened if it started in say: Hawaii. After all it spread everywhere! Even from the Silk Roads leading to East Asia. 3. Christianity is less selfish than Buddhism and other religions Buddhism's goal to eliminate self suffering. Christianity goal is to walk the extra mile for each other. God's love is not something earned, Nirvana is. You see? You can't be a Christian in order to have eternal life. You be a Christian therefore you have eternal life. Make sense? Someone who follows Christian tenets ONLY because they don't want to burn in the Lake of Fire, or because they want Eternal life, are not Christian. That is an example of doing good deeds but not being a good person. To be Christian is to love everyone and WANT to help others above all. 4. The Ten Commandments do not require to you do anything! - Do not worship other Gods. This is telling to NOT to do something - You shall not make an image of anything in Heaven above or Beneath the Earth. Another Inaction - You shall not use the Lord's name in vain. Yet another inaction - Do not work on the Sabbath. Inaction - Honor your father and mother. You have to go out of your way to disrespect/disobey someone, henceforth this is also an inaction. - Do not murder. Inaction - Do not commit adultery. Inaction - Do not steal. Inaction - Do not bear false witness against your neighbor. Inaction - Do not covet your neighbors house, spouse, ect.... Inaction. You are not required to do anything. You ARE commanded to ABSTAIN from certain actions. 5. Christianity do not want to leave anyone to suffer. My opponent is mistaken in the idea that Christianity leaves others behind to suffer. One of the basis of Christianity is too spread the Word of God. The parable of the farmer who scatters seeds depicts this quite blatantly: "Listen! A farmer went out to plant some seeds. As he scattered them across his field, some seeds fell on a footpath, and the birds came and ate them. Other seeds fell on shallow soil with underlying rock. The seeds sprouted quickly because the soil was shallow. But the plants soon wilted under the hot sun, and since they didn"t have deep roots, they died. Other seeds fell among thorns that grew up and choked out the tender plants. Still other seeds fell on fertile soil, and they produced a crop that was thirty, sixty, and even a hundred times as much as had been planted! Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand." No matter who or what circumstances, we are to spread the word to all. 6. Christians do not go to Heaven While my opponent states that most people would disagree with me one this topic, it doesn't change the fact. Read the Bible, "after life" is a mass resurrection on the new EARTH in the City of New Jerusalem. 7. You can be "Christian" without even knowing what that means. The Bible states that the Word of God is written on all people's heart. Meaning even if you have never heard of God, you can still be accepted. Just follow the Word of God. Want to be a good person. Want to be loving. The bible states throughout itself that whoever is Righteous, is right with God. This is also why Christianity is the most likely to be true. It applies to everyone, regardless of who and where you come from. It even applies to those who are born and raised in different religions. After all, the Bible tells us to test all things with the Word of God. Where is the Word of God? Again, it is in our hearts, we know what is right and wrong. Now, I have stated that Buddhism is inherently self-oriented and it is deed based in end result, there are no doubt good people that are Buddhist. For example, Buddha came before Jesus and of course had no way of knowing about Jesus. Depending on who Buddha was personally, I could see him being raised back up by God. The case with Lazarus and the Rich man might be another example of this, after all a beggar (Lazarus) would have a hard time knowing about God, only hearing what others had spoken to him. Yet he is told to be with God after he dies and the Rich Man who would have easy access to things such as God and what the scriptures say, ends up burning in the lake of fire. 8. Correlation between Sin and God. My opponent states that without God, sin would not exist. Well you could also argue that we wouldn't exist either. However, I will put that aside for the debate's sake. You see, your statement correlates God and Sin, however that is not true. After all, in following God there is no sin. To put it simply, there is not a correlation between God and Sin, unless you want to say because God made us, there is Sin.However he also gave us Free Will, it was our choice to Sin, we could have chosen to just keep being good and not sin. Yet we continue to choose to sin. Some would say that Sin is needed to have Free will and that if you get rid of all bad things, nothing is left (Taoism). However this is also not true, if you got rid of everything bad, you would just be left with good. There is no reason why having God would cause Sin, therefore God did not make put us in a situation where we had to sin. Humans chose it. 9. God is not apathetic. You may feel this way because BIG events haven't occurred that shock the world and scream out God's existence. You may think the times in the Bible had a lot more flash and impact, however many of the events in the bible were things carried out very slowly and the God was always questioned. However over the long period of time we can see how big of an impact it truly is. For example: The Book of Ruth. This story seems so insignificant that you could probably find thousands of people going through similar things every day. However it also demonstrates God's work at hand. Ruth had lost her husband, she was a widow. She had no one to take care of her, and would become a beggar if nothing happened. However she found someone again, they took fancy to each other, got married. Seems like a pretty nonchalant story. So why is it in the Bible? Well the child she has with her new husband becomes the Grandfather of David, which Jesus is born from the line of David. As I said, thousands of situations like this occur throughout the world, and the truth is: God has a plan for them all as long as they accept it. God is active even in today's world. It might not be noticeable like when we read the Bible, but when you look back, the people of that time didn't realize it either. God can only help, if you allow him to. So for these Reasons I believe it is Likely that the Christian God is the Real God.