if the Abrahamic god exists, that being is evil.

I did read the comments and realize that the argument CON posted in Round 1 was a mistake, no harm no foul. I will avoid in this round my rebuttal to his arguments, and post my arguments as originally intended. In round 2, I will expect my opponent, as he mentioned, "forfeit the round" by simply posting as his argument his agreement to move on to round three for rebuttals. My Argument: The god of Abraham, father of Judaism, Islam and Christianity, has in his existence acted as an evil being of supernatural authority. His awesome powers of creation and destruction have wrought on humanity the most tremendous of cruel intentions. I will begin as I should at the beginning: Genesis (Creation): In the beginning god created man. To the first being god gave the intelligence to hold dominion over the beast and to work and keep the land of the earth, even so far as being able to give everything a name. Yet, he deprived that being of comprehension of good and evil (defined in round 1). If this was a flaw in the design of man, and god did not have control over this flaw, he should not have attempted the feat of creating humanity. Had he created life without knowing how to do it right? Very reckless and shows poor character on the part of god to do something without first doing his homework. For something so important to accidentally make the mistake of making the man less than perfect in mental capacity is cruel. Were it intentional, it is indeed a malicious joke to give man slight intelligence, knowledge, ability and power, but then to keep from that man perfection in his cerebral ability. However, god continued and had created Eden, and in it put a tree of knowledge of good and evil. His instructions to the man were to not eat from it since he would die, implying that knowledge is deadly to humans, another flaw. Let"s take it that since god created the laws of physics, biology and chemistry (as well as all sciences, known to us and not) he"s a decent command of the comprehension of these laws. So either go did do the best he can, and made something very imperfect, or he didn"t do his best and created a lesser being intentionally. If it was intentional, he in essence created the universe, the earth and all its life, and made man his less than equal slave to take care of it. Further he also created a tree that bore fruit that could kill him in the garden that was his home. That is a significant error on his part, for one creating the element that could wrought the power of death on the first being that was made in the image of god himself. Second, for making humanity so easy to fool that a snake a lesser beat that the man has dominion over could trick. The only option is that he had built fault into the man, the flaws being he could succumb to gullibility and die from knowledge. To conclude Genesis (Creation), God made man; he maliciously made him imperfect either on purpose or by accident. If it was on purpose, he essentially created a slave to take care of the earth and made that slave mentally inferior to keep them docile workers and tempted that being by making and placing an element that would enlighten, thus make them more like god (Gen 3:22) and kill (Gen3:3), then god banished his creations from Eden so they could not eat from the tree of life thus making sure they would surely die. Genesis (The First Eugenics) Eugenics a social philosophy advocating the improvement of human hereditary traits through the promotion of higher reproduction of more desired people and traits, and reduced reproduction of less desired people and traits. (American Sociological Review 389"397) Noah, a descendant of the first man Adam, was a lone "righteous" man I the eyes of god. God"s initial flaw in humanity had by now spread through the generations and created a hostile environment and corrupt earth. Noah was instructed to build an ark to house the last of humanity (Noah"s family) and 2 of each creature. He then flooded the earth, killing every living creature he deemed was corrupted by his initial flaw, as well as other beasts, in favor of the few he saw as fitting to repopulate the earth. God killed every being he deemed having less desirable traits to promote the reproduction of those he saw as having more desirable traits, the first act of Eugenics. We can see parallel in the actions of god with a familiar being of recent history: God believed the earth had become violent, corrupted by the infusion of degenerate elements into its bloodstream. (An interpretation of Genesis 6:13 through the lens of eugenics. ) Hitler believed the nation had become weak, corrupted by the infusion of degenerate elements into its bloodstream. These had to be removed quickly. Evans, Richard J. (2005). The Third Reich in Power. These two beings committed the same atrocities (granted different reasons) and we deem Hitler and his NAZI eugenics program evil, we must label the former the same as well by comparison. It is unfortunate that I cannot in this forum depict every atrocity committed by god to appease my BoP. I will list a few here to make the point that throughout the history of god he has acted in an evil nature. God commits genocide in the destruction (bombing of) Sodom and Gomorrah. God turns Lot's wife into a pillar of salt. (Another act of haltered for human curiosity, all she did was look and see what happened) Joshua, with god"s approval, kills Amalek and his people. But he doesn"t make it easy on Joshua or Moses who has to keep his arms up. It"s like a game of really cruel red light/ green light, hands up Joshua wins, ands down Amalek wins. People lives depend on this and god is toying with them all for genocide! I could go on but I am sure the readers and my opponent can clearly see the path I am taking. (As one commenter said look at Job! ) If you follow through the Torah, then later the New Testament and the Qu"ran you will see ever increasing numbers of atrocities similar to the above" if not worse! The powers of god are ultimate, he is the creator of all and master of all. He proceeds to grant the breath of life in all of those among his earth and yet, he allows for atrocities to continue. God himself, refuses to forgive humanity after thousands of years of punishment on the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve for the original sin. Even after (in Christianity) his own son died for the sins of man, the all powerful being still hunts humans" souls one after another as if a collector waiting for the relic to age just enough to be of value. This being to this day allows for death, destruction, mutilation and continuously presents utter temptation he knows we will succumb to, as he built it into us, having such weak mental prowess and will. I will sum up his evil: Profoundly immoral: God is profoundly immoral for making humanity so frail, for holding the sins of the father on the children and for causing death, literally inventing the process of death into the human race. Malevolence/ malign intent: God shows his malevolent nature every time he personally takes a life. He murdered the people of earth once in the great flood, scrambles the words of Noah"s descendants just for trying to reach to the heavens! This lead to the lack of understandings between cultures and I would go as far as to say prompting the creation of war between nations! Viciousness: God is vicious in how he helps Joshua attack Jericho because it was a city that stood in his way of the conquest of all Canaan. A city in its own right defending itself from would be terrorists and he helps Joshua to rip apart its stone walls, just to move toward conquering land. Sinister: Sinister means "giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen. " God said that Adam will die from eating from the tree of knowledge; I would say that is pretty darn sinister, especially since he put it there! I'd go on, but character # limits!