Christianity is inconsistent.

This will be my conclusion. In the next round, I will say, "This space intentionally left blank." That way Con and I will have an equal number of posts to make our arguments. ARGUMENT ONE Con appears to think that the precise timing of when Judaism became false is somehow relevant to the soundness of my argument. But that is to merely pick at the precise wording of my premises and miss the substance of what I am argument. Regardless of when precisely Judaism became false, we can both agree that according to Christianity, the statements about perpetual sacrifices in the Old Testament were true. Well, if it was ever true that sacrifices will never end, then sacrifices will never end. But if it's false that sacrifices will go on forever, then those statements were never true to begin with. They couldn't have been true if it's also true that Jesus made sacrifices obsolete. So Con has never reconciled this contradiction in this debate. ARGUMENT TWO In my second argument, I showed from Job and Ecclesiastes that there is no resurrection even though there are other passages that clearly affirm resurrection. Here, Con attempts to reconcile the contradiction in two ways. First, by saying the Job and Ecclesiastes passages do not preclude a resurrection altogether, but rather, they preclude a resurrection to their previous lives. Second, he tries to reconcile the resurrection by pointing out that the present earth will be destroyed and the resurrected will spend eternity on a new earth. It could be that Con has a misunderstanding about the new earth. The new earth is not a different planet. It's the same planet. This planet will be made new. You can see this clearly in 2 Peter 3:5-7. There, Peter says that just as the earth was once destroyed by water in a flood, so also the present earth will be destroyed by fire. Well, the planet was not destroyed in the flood. It was just a destruction, of sorts, of the surface of the earth. Life resumed on this same planet after the flood. In the same way, life will resume on this planet after the destruction with fire. Otherwise, the promises in the Old Testament would make no sense. I cited Isaiah 60:21 in the last round, showing that God's people will possess the land forever. What land is he talking about? Well, he's talking about the land God promised to Abraham and all his descendants forever--the land of Israel. That's here on this earth. Con think that Job is only precluding a return to one's previous life, but not a resurrection, since it says the person will not return to their own home. But returning from the grave and returning to ones home are two distinct events, one followed by another. Job doesn't leave any room for a resurrection. It doesn't just say that a person who goes down to Sheol will never return to their home. It says once they go down to Sheol, they will never come back up, i.e. they will never leave their grave. They will not be resurrected. It is BECAUSE they will not be resurrected that they won't return to their home. Likewise, Ecclesiastes 9 leaves no room for hope for the dead. Solomon makes a contrast between the living, who have hope, and the dead who have no hope. If there was going to be a resurrection, then the dead would have some hope. But they don't. That's how they are different. And Solomon doesn't just say they won't return to their old house. He says they will no longer have any share any anything that happens under the sun ever again. That completely precludes any resurrection, whether a resurrection to their old house, a new house, or to an old earth or a new earth. Once you're dead, you're dead for good. That's what Ecclesiastes 9 is saying. CONCLUSION Since I was playing devil's advocate in this debate, I hoped that my opponent would do a better job of refuting my arguments. But as it is, Con didn't do much at all to refute my arguments. Maybe I will give my own thoughts in the comment section on how these contradictions can be reconciled once the debate is over. Thank you for coming to tonight's debate. Be sure to vote.