The Biblical God is Immoral

“My opponent hasn't explained why the rule about the Sabbath makes God immoral.”First, I don’t have the BOP to explain why killing someone for working on Sunday is immoral. Nobody would say that killing their neighbor for working on Sunday is reasonable or moral. For some reason, it is claimed that this is the one exception. Apologists try to invent reasons, completely outside of the Bible, to justify why people should die for working on Sunday. Any explanation that Con gives is either something he made up or something he heard from someone that made it up.Con asked me to define moral. 1. Moral (definition) - of, relating to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical:Source - http://dictionary.reference.com... I think a synonym for “moral” could be “upright”“The Bible actually states that God is good and upright. Psalm 25:8 says that "Good and upright is the LORD; Therefore He instructs sinners in the way." In other words, God is perfect and therefore is the ultimate source of guidance. There is also Romans 2:15 which tells us that God is the one who put the moral law on every persons' heart. Basically, the Bible makes it very clear that God is moral.”That is correct; that is exactly what the Bible says. There is an unvalidated presupposition that the Bible is correct so those verses are no good for the purposes of this debate. If it is appropriate to reference the Bible as authority in this case, then it would be just as appropriate to use Quran verses to justify killing of apostates. Without a bias, one book cannot be chosen over another when both claim supernatural revelation. “My opponent hasn't explained why the rule about the Sabbath makes God immoral. I don't see anything immoral about it. He merely quoted a verse and never stated how it made God immoral.”Con seems to think it was my mistake to assume it was self-evident that it would be wrong to murder someone for working on a particular day. I am not talking about made up rules for an imaginary world. There were people that actually lived during the time these rules were invented and they were put to death. Here is my premis: When their neighbors killed them for working on Sunday that was wrong. How can there be any question about this?“As for the Sabbath day, I can only guess my opponent doesn't see the importance in the day and therefore thinks that God is killing someone for no reason.”Yes, I think murdering someone for working on Sunday is the same as killing them for no reason. So the reasoning is that an all-powerful god created the universe in six days and had to rest (I don’t know why he didn’t make it in one second with no rest if he was all powerful). For some reason, he had to rest from his exhaustion and if any one of his much loved children does anything other than rest on every Sunday, they will be killed. I am saying that, in that “hypothetical” situation, it is immoral. Lets hypothetically pretend that I told my kids they cannot work on my birthday because that is the tradition in our family. If I catch my son cleaning his room, would you consider it morally justifiable to kill him? If I lived in another culture where that kind of justice was accepted by the rest of the community, would it be moral then? Even if Con can somehow argue that working on Sunday was a travesty, he also has to explain why execution is a reasonable punishment for that “crime”. Some punishments make the punisher immoral. For example, if I catch someone stealing my lawnmower, it would be reasonable for me to expect them to be punished. My expectation of justice with an appropriate punishment does not make me immoral. If I stabbed them to death; however, that would make me immoral because the punishment is excessive. “But...the whole point of the Sabbath was to set aside a day for holiness. It also represented the rest that God provides for his people. In other words, it was a day where people recognized that they needed God in their life.”So in other words, God tells his people that he wants them to remember how much he provides rest to them and that they need to recognize they need God in their life but if they don’t in the way that he commands, he will murder them or anyone in their family that disobeys. This does not describe a loving and merciful God in the least; it describes a petty, spiteful and cruel god. Despite what Con says, he would never let his current or future children stay at a relative’s house that had such rules but lets pretend he would be OK with that. What would be the effect on his children if they were in an environment where they knew they would be murdered if they brushed their teeth at the wrong time? It would not foster a relationship of trust, love and respect. It would foster an unhealthy relationship of fear, intimidation and mistrust. The rules for morality do not change depending on who it is being applied to. Just like it would be immoral for a man to rape a woman, it would be immoral for god to rape a woman. Any argument that god could rape a woman if he wanted to would be perverse. Similarly, it is immoral to kill someone for working on a particular day regardless of who the executioner is. “In order to "remain" in favor with God, you had to also keep the Sabbath.”Obviously, I love my children much more than the Christian god loves his children because I would never kill them over some trifle offense. Remember, mothers, fathers, sons and daughters were actually killed for working on a Sunday.