God is not real

I'm only responding to claims that you made! My points were that nothing you said had a logical link to therefore there is no God. Your whole case assumed he existed only to ask why he would do such a thing. This is assuming existence considering you appear to be asking why he did something rather than whether he did something. Hence I assumed existence when saying there is an answer for him doing said thing. Now you say it can not be argued that mass genocide would be done by a 'benevolent' creator, however why not? I would assume as you are an Atheist, that you don't follow an absolute morality, unless you are particularly fond of Kant's Categorical Imperative. I'm an Atheist myself, however even I can see that morality is entirely a social construct that makes society more stable. If everyone killed everyone and stole everything, it would be a disaster, and so fundamental rules are introduced that develop over time, and here we are agreeing that mass genocide is 'bad'. This is because if mass genocide was good, humans would be wiped out. However if there existed a God, his morality would be the the absolute morality, and whatever we believed would be wrong. If the creator of an absolute morality deems mass genocide okay, then that is how it is. It sounds horrible, it is horrible, but only from the perspective of a UK citizen in the 21st century. Heck even 1,000 years ago, genocide in the crusades was considered fine if with just cause. What we perceive as right and wrong may be wrong if there were an absolute morality, and so nasty things happening doesn't mean he doesn't exist, but simply that we are wrong. You call being unable to comprehend the mind of God as an escape hatch argument, however if there were a God, are you honestly saying you would be on the same intellectual level? A sentient force that could see all and do all? I suspect not, and neither could I. We cannot say that our own confusion means that God doesn't exist. It was not 'designed' to be understood by men, it wasn't like God wrote the Bible and handed it to Jesus where it was then distributed. The gospels were written by actual people a long time after the crucifixion, and so it is extremely likely that whatever words Jesus spoke or actions he did would not have been properly documented. This makes the Christian religion at least most likely a farce because it bases its services and prayers on texts written by old men years and years after the events. As a result it is impossible to guess what the desired message was. You ask again if an omniscient God would allow such a thing, I simply don't know. You would say no. I would say that I don't share this God's omniscience and so can't claim what he was thinking when he did things that we don't understand. Religion is completely based on interpretation, are you joking? Everyone sees the Bible in a different light and takes a different message from it. Some people cherry pick good parts, others bad. As a result it means that everyone is probably wrong, but doesn't mean a God doesn't exist. You seem convinced that the Bible is the direct word of God, it simply isn't. It was not written by God and no one claims it to be. It was written by scribes who likely got things wrong. Again you mention that if we don't like what God is saying he must not exist, it simply doesn't make sense. This God may show love in a different way to us, again we are only humans, and to claim that emotionally we are up there with the creator of everything would simply be nonsense. I don't believe in a God, I would identify as an Atheist, but arguing logical fallacies in the Bible will get you nowhere. There is no reason to think that a God would follow our logic, and so even if he did exist, we still would have no idea why he did anything he did. In Amazonian tribes they glorify child sacrifice, something we would be repulsed by, and so we shouldn't be surprised if other barbaric (by our standards) acts are glorified by this God. There is no way to even claim that God isn't real when you look for inconsistencies in scripture. All you can do is look at probability and conclude that God is so unlikely that you don't think he's there. This does not however 'mean' that a God doesn't exist. Your arguments all seem to imply that we ought to know how a God thinks. I ask why is this?