As the Bible describes God, He is inconsistent in His nature

========== INCONSISTENT IN ACTIONS VS INCONSISTENT IN NATURE ========== I believe an example is needed in order to explain what my opponent has done with his opening arguments. Let's say that Derek Jeter of the New York Yankees professes to always do what is best to help his team win. Offensively, doing what is best to help his team win usually means trying to get a hit, although not always. There are times when the situation demands the smart baseball decision of laying down a sacrifice bunt to move a runner into scoring position. In this case, remaining consistent in always trying to get a hit would not be doing what is best to help the team win. For his career, Derek Jeter only gets a hit in 31.7% of his at bats [1], while a sacrifice bunt is pretty easy to do. Clearly, in order to remain consistent in one's NATURE, one must exercise DIFFERENT ACTIONS IN DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES. Consequently, always remaining consistent in ACTIONS regardless of the circumstances will ultimately result in being INCONSISTENT IN NATURE. In my opponent's opening round, he showed some of the examples of the God of the Bible claiming to be loving and peaceful, followed by some of the examples of Him killing people. The only conclusion that can be drawn from my opponent's argument is that he thought I was naive enough to think that God never killed anyone. I of course am aware of God's killings, although I can't help but wonder how my opponent arrived at the oddly specific count of 2,391,421 plus an approximate 31M more without the use of any sources. My opponent apparently possesses a photographic memory of the entire Bible and a calculator for a brain. Congratulations! Nonetheless, he has ignored the resolution at hand. I will grant to my opponent that the numbers he has provided without citation are correct, just to demonstrate that they do not matter in this debate. My opponent has presented absolutely nothing so far about the nature of the killings. Were they arbitrary? Were they warranted? Were they necessary to keep the peace? Were they just judgments? Pro has said nothing at all concerning the context of the killings he chose to refer to, and has thus completely ignored the distinction between actions and nature that I maid painstakingly clear in my opening argument. So that we are not confused, I have not restricted the topic of this debate to only killing, although I sense this will be my opponent's main focus, which is fine. Let us not forget that the simple opinion of any and all killing being wrong that my opponent or some readers may hold to is of no value to this debate. God declared that the taking of life is right when the situation justifies it [2]. Clearly, God explained that JUSTIFIED killing is not in contradiction with His nature, as it is a teaching of God Himself. My opponent has the burden of proof to show that any of God's killings should logically be considered UNJUSTIFIED according to the context and circumstances provided by the Bible. To further clarify the distinction of actions and nature, I would like to use as an example a comment posted by my opponent to this debate: "A quote, by definition, is out of context. You can't quote the whole book. Just because it's out of context doesn't mean that it means something different. For example, I quoted: "Every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth." - Genesis 7:4 Show me how the meaning changes by putting it back into context. Does it now mean that God shines rays of love on everyone? Or does it still mean that he committed global genocide. Answer me that." My opponent has correctly clarified that an understanding of the context does not change the ACTION that is quoted; God still killed millions in the Flood. HOWEVER, the importance of putting the quote back into context is so that we can determine whether the action was warranted and justified, as such a case would not be in contradiction to God's NATURE of punishing evil. When Pro decides to attempt to describe how any of God's killings or other actions were unjustified and thus inconsistent with His professed nature, I will address them. [1] http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com... [2] Exodus 21:23-25, Leviticus 24:19-21, Deuteronomy 19:21