God is Evil

I knew what you were arguing. The sixth commandment states "do not murder" in most translations. Whatever translation said "do not kill" was referring to unlawful killing. You will see examples in the Bible where certain killing is alright (capital punishment). The passage was clearly speaking of murder (unlawful killing). God did oppose slavery and he made his position clear on many occasions. In Genesis 21:10 Hagar was a slave that was left to fend for herself and her son. God later provided for her because he cares about all people. In Exodus 14, God frees thousands upon thousands of slaves. In Leviticus, Exodus, and etc. .. God commands that all people will be treated well and fairly. And in the book of Galatians, God states that "there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. " God has made his position known. And again, Exodus 21:7-11 was for the benefit of the daughters. In those days, if a father was too poor to pay for a normal marriage, he might sell his daughter to a rich man (not saying this is okay). God made sure that the daughters would not be tossed aside by the rich man or to be sold by the rich man to a foreign people. The husband had to provide clothing, food, and etc. .for the daughter by law. If the man didn't do these things for the daughter, he would have to pay her money (read the whole passage for details). The verse from Deuteronomy is another case where you just didn't read the passage. The woman was put to death if she was a non-virgin pretending to be a virgin and trying to dishonestly deceive a man. As for the men, if they wrongly accused their partner as being a non-virgin, he was whipped and had to pay a huge sum of money. And as for the man who had sex with the previous virgin, he had to marry her himself and provide for her for the rest of his life (Deut. 22:28-29). The evidence of her virginity was most likely a garment stained with menstrual blood. Or they might show a garment stained with hymenal blood to show that the girl had sex on the wedding night. Then there was a whole trial. .. My opponent says "I find it strange that, supposedly God gives humans free will, unless they do something he dislikes. " This is an interesting statement. But. .. my opponent also refuted himself when he stated that God allowed Hitler to murder millions of people. God allows people to have freewill. This means that people will make their own choice. However, this does not mean that they will not be punished for making the wrong decisions. And just because God knows what will happen. .. that doesn't mean there is no freewill. It merely means that he knows what is going to happen. If my opponent were to place a bowl or rocks and a bowl of ice cream in front of a child. And then told the kid to pick one. Just because my opponent would know which one the kid would pick doesn't mean the kid doesn't have freewill. For the record, my opponent should be angry at Hitler for making horrible choices and not at the God who allowed him to make them. He should also be thanking God that the man will be burning in Hell for the rest of eternity. As for the flood, the Bible says "The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth (Genesis 6). In other words, sin has affected not just humans, but even the earth itself. The earth needed a reboot. So God did what was best for the planet. The animals died due to the sin of humanity. Sin has consequences and the results of sin do not merely affect the person that committed the sin. By the way, send me a message if you want to talk about where the water went. This debate is about the nature of God. Noah and his family were not forced to have sex. They did it by their own freewill. This was not considered incest at that time. This was just sex that didn't result in any complications. People didn't have the same genetic problems that we have now. As you may recall, people were living a long time back then. So, the sexual relations were not a problem at the time. But as time went on, God did make a law about incest because disease started to get worse. My opponent never questioned the Bible in round one. He made statements like "God is evil" and "the Bible contradicts itself. " My opponent made false statements about the Bible. These were certainly not questions.