As the Bible describes God, He is inconsistent in His nature

====== Sources ====== I apologize for leaving out the sources. I posted my argument before I realized I left them out. I shall post them this round. Sources for number of kills committed by Yahweh: http://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com... Sources for Bible verses: http://skepticsannotatedbible.com... ====================================== Unjustified and Inconsistency of the Christian God's Murders ====================================== {*Were they arbitrary? Were they warranted? Were they necessary to keep the peace? Were they just judgments? Pro has said nothing at all concerning the context of the killings he chose to refer to, and has thus completely ignored the distinction between actions and nature that I maid painstakingly clear in my opening argument.*} My opponent insinuates that all of Yahweh's killings were justified or in someway necessary to keep the peace. I have two objections to this: 1. Yahweh is omnipotent, and as God he can do anything. If he were a peaceful and loving God, he would be able to correct bad behavior in a peaceful and intelligent manner, rather than ruthless killing of entire nations. If my opponent claims that killing is the only way Yahweh can correct sinful or bad behavior, then this contradicts the notion that he is omnipotent. Because he is all-powerful and all-good, killing should not be the first option when dealing with sinful people. As Mark Twain pointed out in the quote I provided, he is a God "who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all." Nothing could be more inconsistent or hypocritical than that. 2. The things that Yahweh considers to be sinful or bad, are from it, and in most cases absurd. Many of the killings are arbitrary, unwarranted, and not even necessary to keep peace, granted that there was no other form of corrective action. Unjust Punishment, Actions Unworthy of Death, and Absurd Sins - Yahweh will smite anyone who works on the Sabbath. If you agree that this is a just reason for killing, then I expect that you would kill everyone who works on the weekend (Sabbath is Saturday, but considered by most as Sunday) to fulfill God's laws. - Yahweh says that it's ok to smash babies against rocks to make you happy. "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." (Psalms 137:9) [1] This is just ruthless and careless killing. - Yahweh prohibits men with damaged or severed genitals to enter the congregation of the Lord. (Deuteronomy 23:1,2) [1] - Yahweh kills Lot's wife for looking the wrong direction. Another action clearly unworthy of death. "But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt." (Genesis 19:26) [1] - Yahweh suggests killing a child as a sacrifice for when God gets hungry. "Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me." (Exodus 22:29) - Yahweh commands the killing of women, babies, and animals. If my opponent would like to demonstrate that killing babies and animals who are not capable of sin, are worthy of death, please do so. "Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and a$$." (I Samuel 15:2-3) [1] - Yahweh commands the sons of Levi to kill 3,000 men for dancing. Again, dancing is not an act worthy of death. (Exodus 32:27,28) [1] My opponent must also realize, that when the Christian God commits mass genocide of nations and even of the world, it can never be just. These are extreme generalizations of a group of people. Many innocent and undeserving people and animals are killed. Even babies are killed as a consequence of global genocide. This is out just ruthless and relentless killing and completely unwarranted. In fact, it is my opponent who should have the burden to prove that each and every one of his murders were just. ============= More Contradictions ============= - Yahweh's 10 Commandments state, "Thou shall not commit adultry," yet Yahweh orders adultry in II Samual 12:11: "This said the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun." - Another inconsistency of the Christian God is that he claims to be Holy, yet he spreads feces on the faces of people who don't give him glory. "If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart. Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread DUNG upon your faces, even the DUNG of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it." (Malachi 2:2-3) [2] Another verse shows Yahweh forcing children to eat human "dung" as "barley cakes" and "defiled bread." Another very unholy act. "And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them." (Ezekiel 4:12-13) [3] If my opponent would like to demonstrate that spreading fecal excrements on other's faces or forcing children to eat fecal "barley cakes" are Holy acts, he may do so. {*God declared that the taking of life is right when the situation justifies it [2]. Clearly, God explained that JUSTIFIED killing is not in contradiction with His nature, as it is a teaching of God Himself.*} This is circular reasoning. I already refuted this in my first round. Just because he declares himself just and that killing is not contradictory in his nature, does not make it so. Clearly his own moral standards state that killing is strictly prohibited in all circumstances, yet he seems to do it all the time. ========= Closing Quote ========= I'll leave you with another closing quote which eloquently describes Yahweh's atrocious and contradictory behavior. "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." - Richard Dawkins ======= Conclusion ======= In conclusion, I have demonstrated that the Christian God is clearly inconsistent in nature. My opponent thought he had a case because I failed to explain why the killings were unjust or inconsistent last round, but I have now fulfilled that burden. Sources: [1] http://skepticsannotatedbible.com... [2] http://skepticsannotatedbible.com... [3] http://skepticsannotatedbible.com...