Cristian vs Atheist

"I believe that what the bible says is true, but I do take into consideration that humans make mistakes. I don't believe that what they wrote about is 100% true."If the God talked about in the Bible were actually the true omnipotent and omniscient God, then he could have made it so none of those mistakes were ever present in the Bible to lead people astray or make them question. If there ever were a book that revealed the true word of God, then it is safe to say that the book would be perfect with no contradictions and no mistakes whatsoever. Humans make mistakes. Gods (supposedly) do not. "In a history book, it might say that in a war, 5,000 people were killed. What if that number was actually 5,001? Would that make it Incorrect? Of course not."Actually, it would. Saying that the total number of casualties in a war is 5,000 when it is actually 5,001 is by definition inaccurate. But we know that history books are not written by nor dictated by omniscient people and that the numbers are just estimates based off of evidence. History books have an excuse for their errors, but the bible on the other hand has no excuse since it is supposedly the word of God. The word of God would not contain any errors, contradictions, or mistakes whatsoever. To err is to be human. So if God were truly trying to reveal his word using a book, he could and would create a perfect book without any contradictions whatsoever. To think that an omniscient and omnipotent God couldn't avoid humans corrupting his own word is ridiculous.I encourage everyone to look again at this website that documents many contradictions within the Bible: http://skepticsannotatedbible.com...There's actually two contradictory stories of creation in the Bible; Genesis 1:25-27 stating humans were created after all of the animals and Genesis 2:18-19 stating that humans were actually made before all of the animals. Such a contradictory book should never have been considered valid at all.And furthermore, many of the books in the Bible nobody even knows the author to. There have been some attempts to link some of the books with Moses or Abraham, but there is virtually no evidence and many attempts are inconclusive. And this brings me to my first point:1. Christianity borrowed it's mythology from various pagan religions. Much of Christianity's traditions, myths, and characters are all borrowed from religions that were present before Christianity. The story of Jesus Christ bears an uncanny resemblence to the Egyptian God, Horus, a mythological deity that had existed thousands of years before Jesus Christ was supposedly born. [1] “A lot of the stories in the Old Testament are in fact plagiarized material, particularly from the rich mythical heritage of the Sumerians – the inventors of writing. The story of Noah and the flood story, the creation of man out of clay, Cain and Abel, the gardens of Eden, the tree of knoweledge, creation of Eve from Adam's rib, and numerous other myths, like the throwing of Moses after he was born in the river, are all but stories found recorded on Sumerian clay tablets dating 5000 years back in time” [2] Much of the Bible's myths have been copied and plagiarized from Egyptian and Sumerian mythology that can be dated back to thousands of years before many of the myths in the Bible even took place. If people would just research history with an open and objective mind, they would realize that not only is Christianity fiction, it's not even original fiction. 2. The Presence of Innocent Suffering Disproves a Benevolent God.6.3 million children and infants under the age of five die every year. [3] To put this in perspective, that is the equivalent of the Jewish Holocaust occuring every year, only targeting children under the age of five. 45% of these deaths are the result of malnutrition, and a large majority of them occur in Sub-Saharan Africa.These children and infants often don't have any mental faculties whatsoever to process any lesson they could derive their suffering and dying. The millions of infants afflicted definitely don't have the mental faculties present to even comprehend sin or an omnipotent God. Babies, infants and children are often characterized as completely innocent because they have no idea what right or wrong is, and they are completely innocent. So what purpose could their deaths possibly serve?The answer is none. Their deaths serve no purpose whatsoever and are only horrible tragedies that cultivate nothing but loss and sorrow. We should all try our hardest to prevent these deaths as much as possible, and anyone who has the power to prevent the death of an innocent baby with little or no cost to themselves is obviously not a benevolent person. That person would be completely vilified and lauded as the man who refused to save a baby.So if God exists, why would he ever let these innocent babies suffer and die so horribly? He is supposedly omnipotent and omniscient, so he would have the complete knoweledge and power to stop this pointless suffering. If there is any God that exists and has the power to stop these babies' pointless suffering and deaths, but chooses not to, then that God is not benevolent. As long as there are innocent babies suffering pointless and excruciating pain, there is no benevolent God. The reason why the world seems so random, arbitrary, chaotic, and cruel is because there is no supreme moral force in the world. All that exists are these life forms and their interactions with one another. It is up to us as humans to prevent the suffering and deaths of innocent children; it is obvious that there is no benevolent God who will.Sources:[1] Jesus and Horus: http://www.religioustolerance.org...[2] Plagiarized myths: http://ashraf62.wordpress.com...[3] 6.3 million under the age of five die every year: http://www.who.int...