The Existence, "Mercy," and "Perfection" of God.

I will now begin to answer my opponents questions: --the fall-- When I say they were perfect (adam and eve), I'm referring to the ability to follow God's commands (sorry if this wasnt clear). Before they were tempted, all they knew was this: Gods way. When Satan introduced a new way (going against God), thats when everything went to crap. Now, you are correct: God has the ability to foresee and thus, stop this attack. however, that would defeat the purpose of making the garden in the first place, as God created Adam and Eve not to punish them, but rather, because he wanted people to love him BY CHOICE. Love is a CHOICE. As such: if he forced Adam and Eve to not eat the apple, then there was no point in making earth at all. side note: the apple in this story isn't really an apple, or it could be. It was always refereed to as a "fruit" --Judgement-- My opponent referenced Baptism. Baptism is a choice, but in most forms of Christianity, is often made by your parents. which is why it is often done at infancy. however, you could choose to do so as an adult, and it is actually not a requirement for salvation. It's done as a form to express dying to the old, flesh nature and into a new, spiritual one. Which negates my opponents belief that baptism right before death. And even if you are sent to paradise, IE you commit atrocities and somehow are saved, there's still an accountability towards God, and you LOSE some paradise in the end. As far as being "good", by whose standards? Even if I spent my life tending to infant, feeding the poor, ect. , I'm not right with God. Why? Because at some point, I would've broken the 10 commandments. Those are God's rules, and breaking them is what sends you to Hell. Techniqually, we DON'T need Jesus. However, it is difficult to not break any of the 10 commandments to the T. And since each one is like the other, breaking one of them is breaking all of them. So to God, telling a white lie is the same as killing a prime minister. It is humans that add a scale of "acceptable" to "unacceptable". --The Bible-- Seeing as the Bible has over 22,000 historical documentation with 99.9% accuracy (the .01% belonging to punctuational differences), I'm quite sure the Bible is fine historically. And since it was written by people such as physicians and tax-collectors, people who need to know how to document stuff and acquire accurate information, I'm sure that the Bible is quite reliable (it would be hypocritical to believe every Shakespeare play is the same one William Shakespeare wrote, and believe the Bible is complete folly) --Suffering-- God allows us to suffer because quite frankly, we choose it over Him. You cannot blame Adam and Eve, because at some point, even BEFORE you knew it was sin, you sinned. That's the innate nature of humans (again, after the fall). I'm a Christian, and I'VE Sinned (shocking, I know [yes, this is sarcastic]). No one, not even the Pope, is without sin. that is why we have Jesus. Even with Jesus, you will suffer. Jesus HIMSELF said we're gonna suffer. That is nothing new. --Stuff not answered earlier-- Humanly faults - Humans had no faults until the Fall. Now, assuming we never fell, would humans have "faults? " yes, because all humans are different. However, faults as we see them today are actually the differences we have to the extreme. Example: one fault i might be perceived to have is that I'm usually really quiet. That's an extreme of my natural tendency to let other's speak. Before the fall, I might've been more vocal, but as it is, i usually just let other's talk. I'll admit, thats a horrible example, but I believe that proves my point. Religion - If, to win the debate, I had to present evedence for the following: "give me one SHRED of demonstrable evidence that proves God exists, the Bible is truth, yours is the only religion that is 100% true, etc. " Then the debate is yours. Because the only way to be 100% sure if God is real or not is to die. However, there are a few things I can say: 1) as mentioned above: the Bible is the most historically accurate book in existance today, second to none. 2) I'll get flamed for this one, but Darwinian Evolution has little to no true evidence in its favor, and EVERY theory that went against the Bible has been changed, and if it hasn't, it will be changed. 3) The thing inside our bodies, laminin, is shaped like a cross. As this is in the human body, and roman cursifixion was not invented untill hundreds of thousands of years after man, i believe that's a strong indication.