YWYH exists and Venus does not, as stipulated by DoulosChistos, BrettNortje against.

Ahh yes, it is not often I get to debate a neo-pagan, so I got a little excited. Of course I would like to say thank you to my opponent for this debate challenge. Since I am the one who made the claim the goddess "Venus" does not exist, I will go ahead and for the sake of this debate shoulder the burden of defending that claim. First and foremost, I do not mean any offense, I simply wish to defend the truth. Let us begin. I would like to make clear that if my God does in fact exist, then by default, Venus does not, because my God is quite clear He is the only God. (Isaiah 44, 48, 46, so on) So if it can be proven that the existence of YHVH is true and the existence of Venus is not, we essentially have case closed. So, why should we believe in my God as opposed to Venus? 1. Venus was not a moral goddess, and as such, cannot justify morality. Venus, according to the traditions I have read, engaged in activities such as seducing mortal men. https://www.ancient.eu... Venus had several lovers, and was deceptive in her dealings. She once disguised herself as a mortal to seduce a prince. Furthermore, Venus never gave mankind a moral standard to abide by. I can make absolute moral judgments because my God is the Standard by which I judge right and wrong. If I were to use Venus as that standard, I cannot make any absolute moral judgement using Venus because she never revealed a moral law to mankind. For all we know, Venus is perfectly ok with murder and theft. On the other hand. my God is quite clear on what is good and evil. 2. Omniscience. Venus was not omniscient, and as such, anything she reveals to mankind might in fact, be wrong. She could have something outside of her scope of knowledge contradict what she thought she knew. YHVH on the other hand is Omniscient and can with certainty reveal things to mankind that He knows are perfectly correct. We can trust my God because He is all knowing and cannot be wrong, we cannot trust Venus for truth because she may in fact be wrong, because she is not all knowing. 3. Deception My God literally cannot lie (Titus 1:3) Venus on the other hand is OK with disguising herself as a mortal to seduce people. Since she is deceptive, we cannot know anything about the world around us with certainty, for all we know, Venus is deceiving us, and tricking our senses to experience a dream world. YHVH could not do this because everything He does is truth. So summarize, if Venus was the true god: 1. We could have no certainty. The mere fact that there exists a possibility she is actively deceiving us would destroy the possibility of knowledge. I could not know for certain that I exist or that water is wet because we might live in a deceptive dream world created by Venus for the purpose of seducing us. This cannot be argued about my God because He could not create such a scenario. 2. We could have no absolute moral standards because we don't know what she deems moral or not. The problem with Venus is that we do have certainty. I know things for certain, and my opponent knows things for certain. I know there are things that are absolutely morally wrong, because my God has deemed them as such. I know that I exist, I have accurate senses and reasoning created by a truthful God, I have an absolute moral standard to abide by, and I live in a world that is not potentially a dream world created by a goddess with no regard for being truthful. I can say with certainty that we have certainty. If Venus was true we could not. Therefore YHVH exists. Therefore Venus does not.