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

My opponent has made an error in assuming how I state that God is to be feared. He seems to state that I regard God as "My word, I have no way to compare to that." This is incorrect. My opponent may be of this opinion, but to attribute it to me is simply false. God is indeed to be feared. I don't know about the reader, but if I encountered a deity who could violate the laws of nature and do other powerful acts, then learned that this same deity endorsed slavery, genocide, filicide, murder, infanticide, deceit, and a host of other unsavory qualities, I'd be scared like none other. He also states that "Trying to compare an almighty God to a human is laughable at best." It is easy to see the immorality in God's actions if you compare God to Jesus! Compare the almighty God to himself (or is son, depending on religions...)... You can also easily see immorality in God's actions if you consider the rules HE HIMSELF has made! My opponent makes an egregious disanalogy between asparagus and chocolate cake... A more appropriate analogy in this case would be a football coach who tells his team to not smoke and drink on the weekend, and come Saturday night is more hammered than a nail and more stoned than a boulder. The rest of my opponent's defense rests on the notion that a powerful God is deserving of praise. This is simply nonsense, as to be deserving of praise, a deity has to be benevolent as well. And as we can clearly see from the Bible, this deity is far from benevolent at times. ****************************************** In closing, I shall summarize my opponent's argument as such: 1) God is all-powerful. 2) God has handed down several sets of rules for followers to abide by. 3) God has committed the actions of endorsing familial unrest and murdering babies (see Con R2 & Pro R3) 4) God is above human morality. ---------------------------------------- 5) Therefore, in spite of the immoral actions from #3, God is still moral and deserving of praise. Obviously, the reader can see that my opponent has drawn the wrong conclusion. At best, the conclusion that we could draw from my opponent's argument is that: "God's moral worth is technically indeterminate, but he is a hypocrite. " One of the issues that has come up in my opponent's arguments is that one cannot judge God by human standards. I ask the reader, then, what standards are we to judge God by? No doubt the staunch Christians will rail and gnash their teeth claiming that man is not fit to judge God. That is their opinion. The truth of the matter, is that if you look at the Bible, you will get an argument with premises such as these: 1) God has committed immoral acts and is immoral. 2) God is worthy of praise and moral. Obviously the two are inconsistent. An entity can exhibit both moral and immoral traits at the same time, but when one looks at the atrocities this entity has committed, it becomes clear that this God is morally repugnant. I ask the reader to look at the section below and ask themselves if an entity that performs these actions is moral and worthy of praise.... ***************************** "If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." (Leviticus 20:13) "Slaves, male and female, you may indeed possess, provided you buy them from among the neighboring nations." (Leviticus 25:44) "I will punish you with terrible woes--with wasting and fever to dim the eyes and sap the life" (Leviticus 26:16a) "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." (Leviticus 26:25) "...till you begin to eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters." (Leviticus 26:29) "The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name." (Exodus 15:3) "And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him." (Exodus 4:24) "And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle." (Exodus 12:29) "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and a$$." (1 Samuel 15:2-3) "And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor." (Exodus 32:27) "The sword of the LORD is filled with blood." (Isaiah 34:6a) "Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses." (Isaiah 37:36) "But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him." (Luke 12:5) "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." (2 Thessalonians 2:11-12) ********************************* How many of the actions above are moral? Is ANYONE, even GOD, that perpetrates any of the above actions moral and deserving of praise. It would seem ludicrous to think so. The entity that commits these heinous actions is morally repugnant and therefore undeserving of praise. This entity is otherwise known as God. Will you praise a murderer? A liar? A baby-killer? One who condones slavery? I will not.