The God of the old testament is not immoral.

Thank you for your respectful response. However, If you are trying to show that god is not immoral then it is necessary to address the "moral argument". Not everything is up to interpretation. Many of the most important things in life are explained in literal terms as to avoid confusion and ensure accuracy, Such as math, Science, Instructions on completing certain tasks, Etc. Relying heavily on interpretation results in numerous conclusions without being able to confirm which interpretation is valid or not. God deciding to punish us for our sins is not "just like a parent disciplines their children". A decent and moral parent would not punish their younger children for what their anscestors or even older sibling does. They would not kill their children for doing something sinful. If god killed the sinful parents, I don"t think that the children could have cared for themselves. I think that if god was capable of wiping out the entire planet by a flood and letting one family and 2 pairs of each animal survive an extended period of time on an ark, Surely he could have come up with a solution to avoid drowning a bunch of innocent children. A loving parent considers a child a prized possession, A "loving god" brutally takes an innocent child"s life in order to exercise judgement on a sinful population (that he created). Sounds reasonable. I could start an entire new debate on women being inferior to men according to the bible, But here"s a good quote: (Timothy 2:11-15) Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, She is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, Then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, But the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. Yet she will be saved through childbearing. . ". There"s a bunch of quotes regarding women being told to remain quiet, To obey her husband, Being paid for as property, God condemning her to be murdered because she wasn"t a virgin even though men had multiple wives, Saying women are unclean on their period, Etc. If the Old Testament contains codes that are ethical, Ceramonial and social that just further proves to me that the bible was just written by a bunch of people in much the same matter that all other religions and fantasy novels are created. If the bible was word of god, Would he not know that despite the time period in which he was speaking to, That murder is always unjustified, Slavery is never moral & treating women as property is inherently wrong? He condemned so many other minuscule things with such vocalism and violence, But he couldn"t mention any of these inarguably worse sins and injustices just because of their ethical codes? I"m glad the bible showed humility to the foreigner, I"m assuming the foreigner was not a slave, Whore or child of a habitual sinner. Quite frankly, I"m actually slightly more atheist than I was yesterday now that I see god picks and decides who is deserving of human rights even if it goes against society, But failed to make this clarification in regards to the people who I previously addressed. Why does Jesus"s law have to be taken very seriously when the rest of the book is to be interpreted? Human fall is literally, Or figuratively I honestly don"t know anymore, Gods first human-beings sinning. The regulation of slavery is not a "practical step", A practical step would be not punishing humanity for something that had nothing to do with them when you have every capability to do just that. If you didn"t want to do that, Maybe it would be nice to at least address that it"s wrong and a sin instead of giving directions on the proper way to beat your slaves and so forth? It truly is a tragic scenario that the broken relationship between humankind and god leads to such easily preventable death and injustices, Even by no fault of their own. As was carved into a cell in one of the nazi concentration camps "If there is a god, He will have to beg for my forgiveness. ". The bible is influenced by and stole peices of many religions. It"s not really a topic for debate, It"s simply history. If you study the history of Rome or visit any of the museums in ancient Rome there is evidence of the destruction of religious books and statues by Christians/Catholics. There are many religions that outdate your god and the bible, For many we don"t have access to the entirety of their belief system because it was destroyed. Granted, I"m not saying their beliefs and their gods are better than yours. Im just saying all religions are equivalent in terms of validity and in terms of evidence. Personally I prefer to believe in things based on evidence, But if I were to choose to believe in something based on faith it would not be the belief in an omnipresent, Omnipotent and omniscient god not only due to the senseless & condoned brutality in old religious texts, But also because the current state of the world, Again why are there people being raped, Starving to death, Murdered, Etc. Through no fault of their own? Why would anyone be condemned to spend eternity in hell for not believing even if they were amazing and giving people. Perhaps their brains are wired to rely on evidence or perhaps they were born in a geographic area where another god was believed as the only truth. Either way, The combination of a lack of evidence with the state the world is in with the threat of burning into hell for eternity based on your beliefs is more than enough for me to rationally come to the conclusion that god doesn"t exist and if he did I would most certainly not worship him.