Deism is the only reasonable belief system that includes a god

Thanks, Pro. I will now justify my claim that theism is the most reasonable belief system and why deism is illogical.A theist believes that we should accept the word of God as the proof of their existence. It is simply logical that if you are a believer of a religion, you should be able to accept your god's scriptures as true. For example, if you believe in God, and God states that He created the universe and mankind, why should we need any more "evidence" for this to be true. Now I am not attempting to prove the existence of God through holy scriptures. Rather, if you are a believer of a religion with a god, it is superfluous to attempt to justify their existence through your own reason. The proof of their existence should be self-evident if you are a believer. Also, the fact that a deist feels the need for human reason to justify a god's existence implies that they are questioning his existence to begin with. Many religions believe in blind faith, the idea that you should believe in God no matter what He says. In Genesis 22, God asks Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, for him. Although Abraham loves his son, he has full faith in God and does what he says. However, an angel comes down to stop him before he actually does it. If Abraham did not question God when he asked him to sacrifice his son, why should a devout Christian question God either?http://www.biblegateway.com...The problem with deism is that it relies on human reason to prove God's existence. However, human reason is flawed and humans do not think or act rationally. It is illogical for something flawed like human reason to explain something perfect such as God. Take for example, Descartes book, Discourse on the Method. Descartes' proof of God is that he can imagine a more perfect being than himself, which must be God. To make matters worse, he claims that it must be the case that his ideas, "insofar as they are clear and distinct, cannot fail to be true". Therefore, God exists because Descartes can imagine Him, and all Descartes' clear and distinct ideas are absolutely true, because God put them there. This argument has huge flaws, as it is based on circular reasoning. Also, he claims that because he imagines something superior to him, this must be God. I could imagine an alien race being superior than us in every way. Does that mean that they exist? Humans simply do not have the capability to rationalize something so complex and perfect as God.While a deist believes that God does not interven in the world, a theist believes that God plays an enormous role in governance of the world. You stated that "the idea that God is an Creator only goes as far as the actual creating of the Universe." However, there are several instances where God has played a role in the world. The opening of the Red Sea, the Great Flood, and the plagues sent by God are all instances of how God has helped or punished mankind to steer them on the right path. When Sarah aksed God for a child, he kept his promise and gave her the ability to bear a child even though she was very old. And in almost every religious scripture, it tells of how a god or gods have interacted with humans to teach them a lesson. If God's only role was creating the universe, the Bible would have stopped at Genesis. Seeing that God has intervened several times throughout the Bible, why should we suspect that he doesn't do the same now? Of course, a deist will object to miracles as unscientific. However, since God is omnipotent, He has the power to perform these miracles and intervene in the world. Although we may not be able to understand this through science, this just further proves the limitations of the human mind. And how can we not view the creation of the universe as anything but a miracle? Therein lies the contradiction of deism. I will now address rebuttals so that my opponent may have a chance at counter-rebuttals in the next round. My opponent's main argument is that since there are contradictions in holy scriptures, they can not be considered reliable and we must instead turn to human reason. First of all, this debate is not about Christianity or Islam or any other religion. If I were a Hindu theist, contradictions within the Christian Bible would certainly not affect by position on theism. There are so many bogus religions such as Scientology that attacking them would do nothing to the institution of theism. My opponent is simply beating around the bush by attacking specific sections of scripture rather than theism itself.Many of my opponent's arguments aren't even true. First of all, he cites an atheist website, which will have some bias when it comes to interpretting the Bible. For example, let's look at his argument against the Ten Commandments.Exodus 20 And God spoke all these words: 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 3 “You shall have no other gods before[a] me. 4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. 7 “You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. 8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. 12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. 13 “You shall not murder. 14 “You shall not commit adultery. 15 “You shall not steal. 16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. 17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” These are the Ten commandments, plain and simple. http://www.biblegateway.com...Exodus 3219 When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain.This doesn't even address the Ten Commandments. It is simply stating that Moses was angry that his people were worshipping pagans.http://www.biblegateway.com...Exodus 34The Lord said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.God is just telling Moses to make new tablets to replace the ones that he broke. Exodus 34 Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. 15 “Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices. 16 And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same. 17 “Do not make any idols. 18 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt. 19 “The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock. 20 Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons. “No one is to appear before me empty-handed. 21 “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest. 22 “Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year.[b] 23 Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel. 24 I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the Lord your God. 25 “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning. 26 “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God. “Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.” 27 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” 28 Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments. This does not necessarily contradict Exodus 20. This is actually the only time the phrase the "Ten Commandments" was used, so you may consider this to be the technical Ten Commandments. However, these are only a set of rituals and are not different than the ones found in the rest of Exodus and Leviticus. What we consider to be and call the Ten Commandments are the ones found in Exodus 20 and are repeated in Deuteronomy 5 because they form the basic laws of Christianity. http://www.biblegateway.com... I look forward to your arguments next round.