The existence of the christian god.

If you believe in god, your probably wrong. Just kidding. But why do you believe. Is it because you have been touched by the lord, or is it because that is how you were raised. I was raised in a loosely catholic family, and I consider myself lucky to have seen the truth. I have a love of debate, and I want this to be a clean fight, Rule 1. Be smart,if your not going to use facts, don't bother debating with me. Rule 2. Don't be hateful. Be respectful of my opinion, and i will be respectful of yours. Rule 3. Have an open mind. Although most religous people don't (just kidding), i hope that you will be able to see my arguments and be able to change your opinion, either greatly or slightly.Rule 3. Don't repeat yourself, use multiple facts, and opinions from multiple sources Rule 5. Use good sources, YouTube, believe it or not, is actually a good source, if you can dig through it all, wikipedia is not, anybody can right anything.Thats the rules, good luck. And by the way, i am not, atheist, or agnostic exactly. I am a little of both, i believe there is no god, just like there is no bigfoot, but if your brought evidence, i would believe, i just do not right now.My argument will be against the existance of god, preferably a christian god. Opening Argument- Falcities, Contradictions, and Atrocities of the Bible- Other Relgions-God's Answering Machine-Physical Evidence-The law of thermodynamicsFalcities, Contradictions, and Atrocities of the BibleFirst of, the bible is a mess, because it was written by uneducated desert folk in middle east. Not by god. If it were written by god, don't you think it would be legible, considering he is omniscient. The bible, is a lie, no offence, but if you read it, you would know. Here is a few EXODUS 8: 6-7 God sent a plague of frogs which covered the land.EXODUS 8:16 God sent a plague of gnats.EXODUS 8:24 God sent a swarm of flies.EXODUS 9:5 God killed all of the Egyptian livestock with a plague.EXODUS 9:10 God sent a plague of festering boils on the people and animals.EXODUS 9:22-25 God sent a hail storm to Egypt, striking man and animal, stripping the land.EXODUS 12: 29 God killed the first-born in every Egyptian home that wasn’t marked with lamb’s blood.LEVITICUS 26:27-29 God threatened hostility, punishing people for their sins "seven times over," making them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters.this is basically the whole book of joshua JOSHUA 6:21-27 Under God’s direction, Joshua destroyed the entire city of Jericho…men, women, teenagers and infants…with the edge of the sword. The soldiers then pillaged the silver, gold, bronze and iron for God and burned the city. (PS: this is like the whole book of Joshua.)Obviously a all loving god would not condone this, although it would be perfectly fine 2000 years ago in the middle east. So maybe there is a god, but is he really worth all this praise, although that is a whole other debate. The bible is a bloodbath, and it is filled with Rape, Murder, Theft, and all other manners of things. But the Bible is also clumsy contradicting itself left and right. Here are a few examples: Genesis 1:11-12 and 1:26-27 Trees came before Adam.Genesis 2:4-9 Trees came after Adam.Genesis 1:20-21 and 26-27 Birds were created before Adam.Genesis 2:7 and 2:19 Birds were created after Adam. Jeremiah 3:12: ... for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger forever.God pleads with Israel to repent and return to Him. Jeremiah 17:4: Ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn forever.Same book. Also note the previous chapter, where God brings disaster in verse 11: "…it is because your fathers forsook me," generational punishment which again contradicts Ezekiel 18:20Also the bible starts to not make sense at certain points, such as Genesis 2:3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.An omnipotent being required…rest?Genesis 2:16-17 And the Lord God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."God placed temptation in the direct path of his two naïve children and allowed them to be tempted by the serpent (Genesis 3: 1-7), resulting in a single mistake that would contaminate hundreds of billions with a sin nature worthy of eternal torture?But i am running out of words so on to the next topic. Other Relgions There have been many religions, and if you look at other religions, ancient ones, such as the egyptians they believed so greatly and so fervently that they built huge structures like the pyramids, which still stands and is one of the most enduring structures ever, yet we dismiss these gods as Nonsense. Or the romans, they built huge temples to jupiter and other gods, that many people visit, or what is left anyway, an yet they are dismissed too. Even the azteces, they built huge, but not as huge as the egyptians, structures in which the materials had to be dragged through thick jungle, and even sacrificed hundreds of humans to these gods, but they are just as easi.ly dismissed. so what makes your god so special the egyptians or the romans or the aztecs believed just as hard maybe even more so in their gods as your. Yet anyone would say that they are false, but if we go by the argument that their is no proof and then dismiss them, what evidence is there to support your god, the same amount there is to support Isis.God's Answering Machine Think about Mathew 7:7Jesus says:Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!Try praying, what happens, nothing, and if god in his eternal love, wouldnt he do something, for one of the millions who pray. What would happen if we get down on our knees and pray to God in this way: Dear God, almighty, all-powerful, all-loving creator of the universe, we pray to you to cure every case of cancer on this planet tonight. We pray in faith, knowing you will bless us as you describe in Matthew 7:7, Matthew 17:20, Matthew 21:21, Mark 11:24, John 14:12-14, Matthew 18:19 and James 5:15-16. In Jesus' name we pray, Amen. The answer is nothing.Physical EvidenceJesus performed many miracles, Noah built a immense ark, and entire Earth was completely flooded, yet where is the physical evidence. This argument may be overused or evn a sort of crutch, but it is ironclad nonetheless.IF, and thats a big if, all these things happened, where is the said proof. Think about it:-God has never left any physical evidence of his existence on earth.-None of Jesus' "miracles" left any physical evidence either. -God has never spoken to modern man, for example by taking over all the --television stations and broadcasting a rational message to everyone.-The resurrected Jesus has never appeared to anyone.-The Bible we have is provably incorrect and is obviously the work of primitive men rather than God. -When we analyze prayer with statistics, we find no evidence that God is "answering prayers." -Huge, amazing atrocities like the Holocaust and AIDS occur without any response from God. All of this points to a god who is either fake, or a huge a-hole.The Law of thermodynamicsThis commenly used argument by christians states that nothing can from from nothing, it must come from something. So however the universe started it, what started that? The answer, we don't know, but if you try to say god, then i ask you, where did god come from.(Sorry almost out of Sourceshttp://godisimaginary.com... http://www.thethinkingatheist.com...