God Is Not Real

My opponent states that "If there is an intelligent being, that exists outside of time, that being cannot think, or do anything." This seems contradictory to me since an intelligent being by definition can actually have coherent thoughts. Then my opponent asserts that change requires the passage of time. But the online dictionary states that change is "to become different" (http://www.merriam-webster.com...). Nothing about the definition makes it so that change is dependent of the existence of time. And besides, the fact that time/universe had a beginning proves that change is not contingent on time. In other words, time went from not existing to existing. Therefore change has happened without the existence of time. Then it is stated that "If time began at the same time as the universe did, then there was no point in time where the universe did not exist, as they came into existence at the same time. The universe has technically always existed." The problem here is that time (the universe) itself began to exist. My opponent actually acknowledges this in that very quote. This means that before time existed, there was no universe. While it is true that the universe has existed since the beginning of time, the universe did not exist before the existence of time. And again, red-shift and thermodynamics show that the universe had a beginning. Then it is said that "I understand that the Christian interpretation of God claims that God is eternal, but it fails to back up these claims." It should be noted that my opponent in the beginning of this debate asked me to show that the God as defined by the Bible as the true God. But what I have done is proved that the cause of the universe would have to eternal. And by definition, the Christian God is eternal (John 1:1-5, John 8:58, Genesis 1, and etc...). In other words, since the cause of the universe has to be eternal, and since God by definition is eternal, this is evidence that God is a possible explanation for the universes existence. But when we see that the cause also has to be omnipresent, omnipotent, moral, and etc...we see that a God is the most plausible explanation for the universes existence. Then my opponent says "If morality were objective, everyone would share the same moral opinions. If our morals were taken directly from the Bible, adulterers would be stoned, no one would eat bacon, and trimming your beard would be seen as immoral." The problem here is the lack of understanding of each law. These laws were intended for a specific theocratic system in which God's morals were enforced by the government. Sin was not tolerated or encouraged in any way. So I assume you would agree that adultery is immoral. The part in which you have issue is the punishment that was carried out. So we both agree that adultery is objectively immoral. As for eating bacon (did you mean pork?) and shaving beards, these laws were established to prevent Israel from becoming anything like the other sinful nations that were sacrificing children. God wanted to make his people completely separate from them and that is why these laws existed. Basically, a person wasn't immoral for eating pork or shaving, but they were immoral for disobeying God. Then it is assumed that a person shaving "would mean that you are an immoral person." This isn't true. The laws dissipated when the bad influences did. The basic morals values are always the same. But the laws change based on different scenarios. It was then stated that "these are moral standards that exist today, but they did not exist in the past. Early human tribes saw murder and stealing within their own tribe as immoral, but the stealing from, and murdering of other tribes was an acceptable thing to do." Not only is this a bare assertion, but it seems to indicate that people in the past thought murder was moral. But this just isn't true. People have always thought that murder is wrong. While my opponent mentions different tribes, he doesn't give specific names. But in all of these cases, the tribes had a reason to take things from other people so it wouldn't seem like murder/stealing to them. The tribes would just see it as justified killing. Perhaps the tribes the were taking something back that belonged to them or maybe they were going to war for a valid reason. Or maybe they did these terrible things knowing that what they were doing was wrong. The point is that even tribes recognized that murder was wrong. Does this mean that they will recognize their action as murder? Or does this mean that then won't do bad things even though that their action is wrong? Absolutely not. Then my opponent makes several assertions: "Eyewitness testimonies should be taken with a grain of salt, as they are just one person's word against another person's. People who disagreed with these testimonies would have been left out of the Bible. You are accepting that these testimonies are true without any evidence that they are. Eyewitness testimonies are often very inaccurate." When looking to see if an account is true or not, we should see if other accounts disagree with it, and if facts are distorted. There are four gospels and the brothers of Jesus even wrote letters confirming that they were now believers. None of them contradict each other and no other eye witness testimony contradicts the gospels. So since nothing disputes what the gospels say, we have no reason to distrust what they say in that aspect. As for facts, the gospels mention real places https://carm.org...), events (http://www.christiananswers.net...), people (http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org...), and include embarrassing details that add to its reliability. So there is good reason to accept what the gospels say. My opponent then says "that Jesus could have just been lying, and not insane." The problem here is that people do not die for a lie. Jesus was literally crucified and he could have avoided this death by "telling the truth." But not only that, you can't be a good teacher (as historian Josephus called him) and be a liar at the same time. So it is more plausible that Jesus was who he said he was. Then my opponent asks "I will assume that you have lied, at least once, as every human has. Are you saying that you are evil?" My answer is yes. If any human does something wrong, then this means that they are a wrong doer. Remember my fruit analogy? When a fruit gets bruised, it is no longer perfect. Same thing with humans. Once we do something wrong, we are evil. It was then asserted that "the Bible claims that God decides when we die. (Job 14:5) If this is the case, the Nazis were only fulfilling God's will." The verse in Job does say that God appoints a day for us to die. But it says nothing about using Nazi's to fulfill his will. God never forced any person to murder anyone else. However, he does allow murder to happen (freewill) and allows people to die. My opponent says that "there is evidence of common ancestry. All cells are put together in the same way. Humans share 96% of our DNA with chimpanzees, our closest living relatives." To some people, this would be seen as evidence for common ancestry. But for the Christian, it is evidence of a common designer. The fact that all living things are made of the same materials show that they were all made by the same being. That particular evidence equally supports a common designer and a common ancestor. As for the age of the earth, the Bible does not specify the age of the earth. While the time between events does add up to over 6,000 years, that calculation is not including the days of creation. And the days of creation could have had time between them and there could have also been a long period of time before the first day of creation. So the Bible does not exclude the possibility of an old earth. I thank my opponent for challenging me to this debate. It is always a pleasure to debate them and I hope some things have been cleared up. it should be noted that the cosmological argument for God was not refuted and neither was the argument that had to do with Jesus. Most time was spent discussing other questions. I don't mind this at all but I think the resolution was obviously changed into "can a Christian answer my questions."