God's incompetence - 2nd try

For this debate I will be the devil's advocate: I am personally an atheist, but this question seems intriguing so I decided to accept the challenge.You need to remember that your argument is God is incompetent, to claim that he is not completely benevolent or even all powerful isn't the purpose of the debate. My goal is to provide an argument proving that he isn't incompetent. The definition of competence is 'having the necessary ability or skills : able to do something well or well enough to meet a standard.' [1] You are asking if God has the powers necessary to be a god, which is a spirit or being that has great power, strength, knowledge, etc., and that can affect nature and the lives of people : one of various spirits or beings worshipped in some religions. [2]. God obviously has great power and strength, and your own 3rd point of miracles proves he can affect the lives of people and you insist he created nature, and even if it is limited.The only thing left is you didn't give the definite standard of knowledge a god needs (As that is one of the standards of a god) but we can figure that by looking at other gods in history, and in Greece there is a god/spirit of stupidity, [3] which would be the embodiment of stupidity. So, Koalemos (the name of said god) is a god, a god must have a standard of intelligence by which to be judged, Koalemos is stupid, Koalemos has the lowest intelligence (none) in which he can still be a god.I think you meant to argue upon God's intelligence, unrelated to other God's, so despite your ill-named topic, I will argue for this case.What do you mean by 'getting humanity wrong?' Having mankind fall to sin? That seems to be what you are suggesting with the sources you made, so let's look at the individual peices. Before I do this, I will go ahead and define free will as the ability to make choices that are not controlled by fate or god. [4]Adam and Eve- The story of Adam and Eve: One week, God decided to make the universe. He thought the universe was pretty good. Somewhere around the sixth day of that week, he decided to make man. [5]Man was created in God's image,. I do not believe that it is purely physical, but man was like God in the way he acted. God himself claimed he was a jealous god [6], so if this was passed off to man, it would make man with the natural ability of envy, thus man would be jealous OF God. (Not a perfect God, but he still maintains his competence.) This would lead man to want to further work to be more powerful (God-like) which leads to the easy temptation of taking the fruit. (Eve from the Serpent, Adam from Eve.)The Flood- Again, God can be more of a neutral entity, he doesn't like to see 'evil,' but he does like to be worshipped. Most of the world was 'Evil,' Noah worshipped God. God decided to say **** it and give man a new start. He did this by taking Noah and a rather large zoo on a large boat that survived what has to be the worst flood in the history of Earth. See, 500 year old Noah actually worshipped God, so God decided to keep him for the sake of God's own vanity. [7]'Babel'- So, eventually man decided to try to see how angry they could make the great dicator in the sky. They would make a tower that would equal to heaven and again, they would try to be on even grounds with God. A bit after they started, God realized he didn't like it. He couldn't kill all of mankind again, because Noah seen a rainbow. Instead, he decided to make them go crazy by granting them different languages so they couldn't build the tower anymore. The tower was destroyed and this society spread around the world so they didn't have to hear each other's nonsense. [8]My summary may be overly simplified, and a bit of a parody, but God doesn't demonstrate stupidity, just a bit of lack of power to control free will (Which you falsely stated he misunderstood, and by definition he couldn't control) and they did have full knowledge over good and evil (The tree of knowledge granted this), so he punished them. A teacher would punish a student for disobeying the rules, even if the student were a bad kid and the teacher knew the kid would misbehave, you could say the teacher gave the benefit of the doubt.2. You said it yourself, humans have free-will. As long as this holds true, if they see something in religion they didn’t like they change it to suit them and move on. They could misunderstand the text of the Bible of course, but what is passed on has been through different languages (See ‘Babel’) that it may be entirely different from what is was originally. Chances are, it was initially spread by word of mouth so people adjusted it in different ways in early years, and some people had different forms that stayed with their belief systems.3. God only cast miracles on those he likes, and a consistent universe is not a feat of strength. It would occur naturally. IF there were miracles, they would prove his ability to change the properties of reality, a power that would fall under his Godhood.1. http://www.merriam-webster.com...2. http://www.merriam-webster.com...3. http://www.theoi.com...4. http://www.merriam-webster.com...5. http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org...6. http://biblehub.com...7. http://www.biblegateway.com...8. http://www.biblegateway.com...