Given the Bible, God is Morally Repugnant and Undeserving of Praise.

To sum up my opponent's argument thus far, he has stated that he partially agrees with the notion that Jesus came partly to cause familial destruction ("I will agree about familial destruction to a point."), and that God has indeed committed immoral acts ("God put took animals that were probably not going to eat children that day, and honored Elijah's request to eat the kids."). However, he holds that the majesty of God in deed renders him worthy of praise. I'm confused - my opponent seems to state that: While God has committed immoral acts, he remains worthy of praise. All my opponent's argument has shown is that God is powerful, and to be feared. Praise is earned by virtue, not by might. Using examples of what an omnipotent being could do, he attempts to prove to the reader that this being is also omnibenevolent. This is simply not the case. He also assumes that God's action in sending Jesus to Earth somehow rights all the wrongs that God has perpetrated in the past. Consider a situation where I come across a cripple and shoot him in the shoulder, causing terrific pain. Then I wave my hand and heal not only the shoulder, but all his other ailments as well. It was STILL morally impermissible for me to shoot him in the first place, regardless of the fact that I more than made up for it later. At the beginning of my Round 2 post, I rebutted my opponent's contentions for why the verses from the Bible cannot be used. As he has ignored all of them except the one concerning God murdering bratty children, I will assume that he has accepted their use as examples of God's immorality. However, since he seems to take issue with what came from God's mouth to Moses, and what is recorded as being attributed to God, I shall provide more that comes from God to Moses. Now... let us examine the Book of Leviticus. Many chapters in Leviticus begin with some form of "The Lord said to Moses, "Tell the Israelites: X, Y, Z, etc..." If this is not coming from God's own mouth, I'm not sure what is... (Lv 25:44-46) "Slaves, male and female, you may indeed possess, provided you buy them from among the neighboring nations. You may also buy them from among the aliens who reside with you and from their children who are born and reared in your land. Such slaves you may own as chattels, and leave to your sons as their hereditary property, making them perpetual slaves. But you shall not lord it harshly over any of the Israelites, your kinsmen." (Lv 26:14) ""But if you do not heed me and do not keep all these commandments..." I pause so that you may recall the extent of the Lord's ridiculous commandments - and not simply the 10 commandments - previous verses in Leviticus 26 and Lv 27:34 make it clear that God is speaking about the totality of his orders, such as you shall not boil a kid goat in its mother's milk, homosexuals are to be killed, blasphemers are to be stoned, money may not be leased with interest, no crippled person can offer sacrifice to God, if a man marries his brother's wife they shall be childless for their incest, even though he is ordered to do so by God in case of her death.... The list goes on and on of completely spurious and idiotic regulations that carry a completely unjust punishment of: (Lv 26:16a) "I will punish you with terrible woes--with wasting and fever to dim the eyes and sap the life" (Lv 26:25) "I will make the sword, the avenger of my covenant, sweep over you. Though you then huddle together in your walled cities, I will send in pestilence among you, till you are forced to surrender to the enemy.' (Lv 26:29) "till you begin to eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters." That's despicable. If you boil a kid goat in its mother's milk and refuse to repent for your "sin" than God will punish you "till you begin to eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters." This is CLEARLY not the word of a moral entity. ********************* Regardless of the powerful nature of God, the fact remains that he has committed and threatened to commit terrible, immoral actions. He murdered babies in Egypt, forced bears to eat bratty children, deceived moral and god-fearing people, ordered genocide, laid out rules for slavery, and threatened to mete out unjust punishments including forced cannibalism for the most insignificant offenses. Simply because several Biblical characters are of the opinion that God deserves praise does not make it so. This entity has clearly committed morally atrocious acts, some of which my opponent doesn't even dispute!!! I ask the reader again - is this entity worthy of praise given these immoral acts?