The Biblical Actions of the Christian God are Inconsistent with Its Biblical Attributes (et al)

Tarzan! I see with all of those examples a belief that God completely contradicts himself and that we Christians are fools because we do not see it. Well that "raises the question". Why have we all Christians throughout History who read the Bible in far more detail than people who do not believe, come to a different conclusion!? It contradicts itself! Why for 2,000 years has the vast majority of Christianity not realized this? I mean some people who have studied and even memorized this Bible did not have a problem with this? So rather than go to people that clearly hate God and have no knowledge about Him, I went and asked God. Now I realize in your first summation that you state: "My opponent will try to explain away these contradictions" However, by the very concept you and I are here to debate is a call for a response to an accusation. You are making an assertion that the Bible contradicts itself. If I can show you in these 5 things that God is not contradictory then I show that any other contradiction you put forth is more than likely out of context and without understanding. I asked for your 5 strongest. Definition (Allowances) = God makes provisions for humans that are by nature sinners with systems that keep the sins from getting worse. God setup marriage so we do not run around raping women, small boys...etc. First – There are three groups of people God is talking to. Jews, Gentile-Believers, Unbelievers. Second – The Jews were given many laws and many "allowances" in the "Law" that was specifically for them and not reflective of the Character of God. (Example: You allow a Dog to eat on the floor out of bowl. He is a Dog. You will sit at a table eat with a fork and eat from a plate. With the Jewish nation, God was setting apart a people as special so that He could show all nations how to be good. However, He had to make allowances for their sinful nature. Justin Martyr ( 2nd Century AD) said it great. Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 21:1-Ch 23:1) http://www.bombaxo.com... The entire text brings out the reason for the Jewish Laws and why they appear to contradict God. Because of their constant rebellion they were "allowed" certain sins that were against the Character of God. I trust that one of the most revered men of all the churches will be sufficient for a credible source. So At this point there is never a contradiction in the Bible. God is not talking out of both sides of his mouth… because we sin and he knows there are certain ones we could not overcome. 1.On Slavery! We know from Exodus that it was not just going somewhere and kidnapping someone. <"He who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death." (Exodus 21:16)> The same book of Leviticus you quote from gives rules on how those people sold themselves to pay a debt and the Hebrews were to be redeemed and foreigners could be kept until death. The Hebrews had to allow a fellow Hebrew free at Jubilee (7 year period). Oppression, God was severely against. Slavery due to avoid starvation and poverty he was not. It was a viable option for that society and a source of provision for the conquered. It is wrong to lump in the sins of our fathers in this nation with the God of the Bible. Slavery was allowed and God built a way to redeem from slavery. The Kinsman redeemer, is the way in which God pointed to his freeing all man from slavery. It is a spiritual precept brought out in the History of Israel. Please go here for full definition of the reason God used slavery to point to His Character. http://www.hopeofisrael.net... You will see that this concept is even pre-Israel and the Law being stated in the Book of Job. Everyone has a Redeemer and that type is brought out in Slavery and Israel. 2.On Righteousness Just some clarity on this point… righteousness = pleasing obedience. This involves sinlessness but we all fall short of it. Only one man reached sinlessness. That was Jesus. You can be righteous and have failures. Jesus had no failures. It is the reason he could make the payment for everyone's failures (The Cross). It is the basic concept of Christianity. We trust in Christ for the payment of those failures. We then become obedient to His will for us. Hebrews 4:14-16 is a brief synopsis on the concept of Jesus, what He came to do and how we approach him and the reason we can approach God the Father now. Babies do not count because everyone was born into Sin. It is the reason that Jesus was to be born of a Virgin so that He would not have the sin nature of Adam handed down to him. http://therefinersfire.org... 3.Perfection of God's Law We can again see in Jeremiah 31:31 that the Old vs. New Covenant was not because of God's inconsistency but because of "peoples". This relates to the above reasons of the Law. Ezekial 33:13 teaches that if you make a commitment to God and God promises to prosper you and you then turn and trust in that promise from God and do evil… He will not keep that promise because you did not keep your promise to him. As Justin Martyr pointed out, Christians understand the meaning of all of these things, Jews should have. They performed the acts of the Law but did not learn from them as they were called to do. Those "Laws" were perfect to "teach". That is how God's Law is perfect. Every context of God's Law being perfect is learning and teaching. Points 4 & 5 You have a child. You are patient with his mistakes, forgiving him and teaching him with your rules how to do better, slow to anger and gentle in your dealings. But despite raising him well, to the best of your ability, that child grows to choose to do evil things. He steals, rapes, bullies, and takes from you to feed his own evil lusts. What relationship can you have with such a child? You must do all that you can to turn him from his evil; you cannot have mercy for his sins. God is our Father, he is merciful and abounding in love for us when we follow his rules and are pleasingly obedient. But when we murder, rape, and generally wrong the people around us, he will stop us. He will deal with us accordingly. Pointing back to Ezekiel 33 again. We see in that chapter a picture of an evil person that turns to good will live and be blessed by God. But a person who spent their entire life living good but then turns to evil will die. God will kill him, because he at some point started to disagree with God. All that person has to do is agree with God on the good things and start acting according to the Character of God. < Luke 2:14"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests."> We see again that God only came for those who had his favor. At this point you might ask who had God's favor? Those who are obedient, which we saw in Ezekiel 33, had peace with God. Not peace with the world but peace with God. Those who are obedient and good are at peace with God. God is at war with those who are bad. He continues to discipline them and when they are really bad, God will wipe them out. The below link speaks directly to the Amalekites and several sub points. http://www.christian-thinktank.com... We see an example of God's patience in Genesis 15 but also of His judgement in the same verse. He waited a long time for those in Canaan to become fully evil and then used the future Generations of Abraham to wipe them out, 430 years later. There are inconsistencies to God's Bible because God's standards (which He holds himself to) and those standards, which He holds us to, are in conflict. You have to read the full context of the Bible to understand. Those verses as you have seen are not backed up with understanding.