As the Bible describes God, He is inconsistent in His nature

====================================== Unjustified and Inconsistency of the Christian God's Murders ====================================== Last round, I suggested that if Yahweh were a just God, he would correct bad behavior in a peaceful and intelligent manner. My opponent responds with this: {*However, to simply wave His hand and cause someone to stop what they are doing would be taking away that person's free will, something that no one would consider to be "good."*} This is a strawman on his part because I never suggested that Yahweh should "wave his hand" and force people by taking away their free will. Since my opponent claims Yahweh refuses to interfere with our free will, how does he reconcile that with killing? Is he not violating people's free will by killing them? They didn't choose to die, Yahweh certainly violated their free will. It's also ironic that Yahweh punishes people for exorcising their free will. If he gave us free will, why should we be punished for using it? THE FLOOD My opponent contends that the flood was just because "every intent of the thoughts of [man's] heart was only evil continually" as stated in Genesis. This is an absolute absurdity and the complete definition of big brother dictatorship. Yahweh destroyed every single man, woman, and child for THOUGHT CRIME!! Killed for thinking. I deem that the epitome of unjustness. Not only that, he failed to address my point that innocent infants and animals were killed in the global genocide. My opponent must explain to me HOW INFANTS DESERVED to drown to their painful death. How animals, NOT capable of sin, are deserving of genocide. These are just more reasons why Yahweh is in unjust God. KILLED 3000 FOR DANCING In reference to the chapter of the Bible that describes Yahweh killing 3,000 men for dancing, my opponent denies this fact: {*First off, this text says NOTHING about killing people for dancing. Secondly, this text says NOTHING whatsoever about dancing. Clearly, my opponent is seriously lacking in his research abilities.*} My opponent accuses me of bad research skills for having "blind faith" in my source's claim that people were killed for dancing, yet he missed the part in Exodus 32:19 [1] which says "as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot." The text continues for several more verses talking about how it's sinful and how angry it makes God and Moses. Dancing around the golden calf made Yahweh's anger "wax hot" and he thus commanded, in Exodus 32:27[1], the death of 3,000 men. This is an unjust killing, bottom line. YAHWEH KILLS THOSE WHO WORK ON THE SABBATH My opponent asks that I bring up a specific instance, so here is an example in Numbers 15. "they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day." - Numbers 15:32 [1] "And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses." - Numbers 15:35,36 [1] =========== Unjustified Killing =========== {*I pointed out that God instituted that the punishment must fit the crime, meaning that serious crimes require serious consequences. There is a difference between justified killing and unjustified killing. God states that He justifies killing for the punishment of certain acts. Given the conditions that God has set forth, my opponent has the burden to find an example in the Bible in which the description of the circumstances does not fit the circumstances that God previously declared justifies the punishment of death.*} My opponent has mistakenly put the burden on me to demonstrate that Yahweh's murders were unjust, when in fact, he should demonstrate how each murder was just. When an offender is on trial (in this case, I am convicting Yahweh) for killing multiple victims, we don't just assume it was an ok act until proven otherwise. We say, guilty until proven otherwise. So my opponent must defend Yahweh's acts of murder and genocide. Also, he claims that his reasons for killing are just after I just got demonstrating that they're not. THOUGHT CRIMES AND WORKING ON THE SABBATH ARE NOT CRIMES PUNISHABLE BY DEATH. BOTTOM LINE. ========= Closing Quote ========= "Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind." - Thomas Paine (Age of Reason) ======= Conclusion ======= In conclusion, I have contended all of my opponents contentions in favor of the resolution that the Biblical God is inconsistent in nature. [1] http://skepticsannotatedbible.com...