In Defense of Evil part 3 of 3: Satan was the Good Guy in the bible. God was the bad guy.

Thank you con for providing your arguments. Biblical Narrative, The Bible is written with a variety of writing styles. My arguments were based exclusively on narrative (story telling) and for a reason. There is a lot of bias in the bible regarding Satan because he is God's enemy and the people writing the Bible were worshippers of God. Any commentary outside of the narrative isn't fact. It merely provides the author's opinion. What people need to do when looking at biblical passages outside the narrative is keep in mind the opinions come from extremely biased people and need to be taken with a grain of salt. I will now be following my opponents structure to make the debate easier to follow. The titles of each section in no way reflect my arguments or opinions. The Devil is Evil, 1. Sinning isn't evil. Sinning as defined by God is "Anything that god despises". That's is a really convenient and self serving definition. What does god despise? The answer to that is obvious. He despises things inherently human lust ( being physically attracted to someone), greed (wanting anything beyond what's essential to survival), vanity (not looking like a slob) etc. . So basically a whole list of what defines natural human behavior. " God worried so much about the sin that He died on the cross so that all may be forgiven. " Jesus isn't god as defined by the terms of the debate in round one. For the purposes of keeping the debate from going off topic. God didn't really have to subject his son to torture and murder to forgive our sins. God has 2 good alternate actions. He can either just forgive them, or he could stop finding human nature so despicable. 2. My opponent uses the premise that Satan is evil because he disguised himself as an angel of light and a serpent in the garden of Eden. The reality is, Satan is an angel of light. The word Lucifer means light bearer[1] and it was a name given to Satan in the bible (Isaiah 14:12 NKJV) by people biased against him. So even his enemies agree he is an angel of light. My opponent can't define God as good and then say that Satan disguising himself in the garden of Eden is evil. It is hypocritical. God has disguised himself as a burning bush in Exodus 3:2-6. God also disguised himself as some random violent guy in Genesis 32:22-32. The best my opponent can do is say disguising yourself is a neutral act not good or evil. [1] . http://m.dictionary.com... 3. My opponent asserts that Satan is a deceiver and wants you to suffer for eternity. However there is no evidence Satan wants suffering. Even if suffering is the price for wisdom it doesn't mean suffering is the motive. More then likely Satan's goal is to enlighten man since that is exactly what he did. Satan has not been dishonest he has been the opposite of dishonest he has given us wisdom. Where areas it would be fair to call God dishonest because he wishes us to be punished for wisdom. The individual that gives knowledge is typically more honest then the one who withholds knowledge. C1: God does evil things, My opponent defends God's orders of Genocide and human sacrifice, by saying, since God owns us his actions are justified and because God says "just trust me"(paraphrasing). "Just trust me" doesn't cut it when trying to justify genocide. It's generally agreed genocide is bad. Even God, mentions murder as bad in the 10 commandments. So by his own definition God is doing something bad. That is unless God is some sort of hypocrite who thinks he is above abiding by his own rules. Also I would like to point out that God stopped owning us the second Satan freed our minds. We aren't owned by God unless we allow him to enslave our minds again. God isn't omniscient as some of the commentary in the bible describes him. When you look at the narrative of the Bible you can see this. Remember that story of God rewarding lot for offering up his daughters to get raped? Well earlier in that story God shows he is not omniscient. God shares with Abraham that he is about to murder everyone on Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham is able to bargain with God to save Any good people in the cities. God shows he doesn't know how many good people are in Sodom and Gomorrah by sending out Angels to go figure it out for him Genesis 18:16-33. In the garden of Eden just after Satan gives man the gift of wisdom God shows he isn't omniscient as well. Adam and Eve hear God walking and hide from him. God doesn't know where they are, so he has to call out asking where they are Genesis 3:8-9. Con has argued that I can't question God's wisdom because he is omniscient. I have shown God isn't omniscient, showing that his wisdom can be questioned. My opponent concedes that God views women as inferior and more deserving of rape. C2: God hates humans, "Why would a hateful God offer eternal peace? " I've shown god to be capable of deceit. We can't just accept his word that he is offering us eternal paradise. What would be the cost of this eternal paradise anyway? Mind control. No I will take free thinker over slave anyday. "Remember, it is the sin that is to be hated," If I'm killed for my sin by God, how does that not signify hate? If God loved me he wouldn't feel it necessary to murder me for something I can't avoid (Romans 6:23). C3: Let's meet our hero 1. Ignorance is not bliss. God has made it clear that he didn't try to keep wisdom from us to protect us from pondering our fate. God feels threatened by us. Satan told us God didn't want us to eat the forbidden fruit because it would make us more like God. When we ate the fruit God felt threatened and gave us a death sentence to protect himself. This is an angry, jealous God, which he himself admits (Deuteronomy 6:15). He also displays that he feels threatened by humans in Genesis 11:1-9. Humans come together to build a tower and a great city. God looks and feels threatened because he believes man's unity and ambition will make nothing impossible for him and therefore a rival of God. God then punishes man by giving them several different languages and forcing a permanent division among them. 2/3. My opponent here admits that God wants control of our minds. She suggests that the mind control is good because it gets us to a place of eternal peace. But, a loving God would give us our autonomy and still grant us eternal life. Love is not about control. Summary, My opponent admits that God engages in genocide, mind control and condones raping women (or atleast down plays it). My opponent then admits Satan has freed our minds.