Faith is virtuous.

CON: "Why should I consider anything the bible says to be authoritative on matters of high moral standards?"Why? becouse I am also aloud to set the standards of the debate as 1rst round is Acceptance and you forfeit the match if you refuse my request, thats a reason.regarding the 10th commandment: "Punishing people for thought crimes as an ultimate authority is immoral" (CON). First of all the 10th commandment is not a thought crime as God is not Big Brother or a goverment... It would be a sin at heart,and punishment for it would not be immoral, as immoral is defined as followed and the Christain God is the highest judge; as “For He comes to judgethe earth: He shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with His truth” (Psa. 96:13) and not only is he the judge of what is good and moral he is the most perfect judge; “Lord is righteous in all His ways, and holy in all His works” (Psa. 145:17). David also declared, “Your judgments are true and righteous altogether” (Psa. 19:9). and he does not judge by somebody simply thinking something he judges by your obsession of it... For example: Your neighbor has a car you like, and you want a car just like it is not covetingbut perhaps your neighbor has an awesome boombox in the back of his car and you want just his car in particular it is coveting becouse you are practicing idoltry or the act of worshipping something. Immoral: not conforming to accepted standards of moralitymoral: concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character. beside the fact you are debating with emotion rather than looking at the situation and using opinion rather than an actual arguement that would be acceptable "To me, it does not show high moral standard to punish people for thought crimes" (CON).____________________________________________________________________________________________________Chastity is a virtue becouse again lust is a sin and having sex out of marriage is considered having sex with anouther man's future/current wife and in all reality is having sex with anouther mans wife right? How would you like it if anouther man slept with your wife when you wern't there?*actually yes it was a typo as I was only trying to copy the commandments to the theological values as I am not Catholic so it would actually look like this The Ten Commandments No worshipping gods other than God. No worshipping human creations. No disrespecting God's name. No working on the Sabbath. No disrespecting parents. No killing. No adultery. No stealing. No lying to harm another. No covetting TheologicalVirtues Faith Hope Charity Chastity "All of the virtues do not require beliefs based on spiritual apprehension, except for faith. Being optimistic, giving to the needy, being careful, being fair, being sober, being resilient, being humble, spending freely, being submissive, being abstinent, and working persistently all are devoid of any spirituality" (CON). Yes, congradulations you understand that be each of those can be practiced without spiritulaity but that is a Red Herring debate as that is not the arguement presented... Now back on topic You are using the definition of faith as; strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.but my Faith is a complete trust or confidence in someone or something, as I feel doctrine does not contradict fact at all. So no it is not in anyway or definition 'purposefully dishonest' and sience I have already rebuttled your previous claims you lack any substancial evidence beside opinion to back this arguement and therfor have consented to my arguement as I have one more round I will explain Christain faiths virtue's next round... So CON has the 'burden of proof' to say without a doubt Christain values are not virtueous