The Christian God exists

I'll start off by saying that I am quite impressed with Pro's rebuttal and commend him. Great arguments. I would also like to stress that no new arguments may be put forth in this round. This means that Pro and I can only rebut each other and sum up our positions from our previous points, and any deviations from this rule should result in a loss for the offender. It is up to you to judge if, during each rebuttal, any new arguments are introduced.This being said, I would like to reiterate my earlier point that even if Pro proves that Jesus existed, that does not prove his divinity. I am quite doubtful that Pro can do this using only his previous points and a counter rebuttal of the rebuttal I am about to proceed with. One last note before I start my rebuttal: earlier I referred to "the prophet Allah" in my rebuttal to Pro's arguments. I would like to note that I am extremely embarrassed, and upon realizing this I would like to note that I meant to say "the prophet Muhammad". I apologize for any confusion. I will now begin my final rebuttal.REBUTTAL"Thinking that the gospel writers could not make it past the age of 37 just because that was the average age of death is silly. The problem with an "average" is that it doesn't very accurately reflect what age people were living to at the time. Two thousand years ago the death rates of newborns and young children were very high due to lack of medicine and all around tough times. If out of 10 people, 5 die before the age of one and 5 live to be 74, then taking the average death rate would give us 37. You can see how infant deaths greatly hurt these numbers."Valid point. Well done, I agree with this; there is a possibility that the writers could have lived through the entirety of Jesus' life. However, this did not address my other point about bible contradictions, and I believe that alone is enough to cast doubt upon the notion that these people each witnessed the same events. Even if these people were "remembering it wrong", you'd expect things like the virgin birth to be present in all accounts, which is not the case."I am not in any way saying that the prophet Muhammad or any other is not who he claimed to be. Perhaps God has sent many prophets throughout the ages to preach to many different races resulting in many different religions. The difference between Jesus and all others, however, is that Jesus is the only one who has ever claimed to be God. All other prophets, from Isaiah to Muhammad, have called themselves prophets of God, but never God himself. "There are many others who have claimed to be God. Although none have gained as much popularity or were as "humble as Jesus", that is irrelevant, as Jesus, as you said, may very well have been insane. He may have really thought he was the son of God, but that does not mean he was. "Of course not, because no one has ever seen proof that Obama is the son of God. No one has ever recorded that he has made the blind see, the dead live and that he has walked on water. No one would bother taking the time to record what he says and no one would die a gory death simply in his name."There is no evidence that these things, or any miracles, really happened besides the bible, which can be taken as historical fiction."You could of course argue this, but that would be ignoring what the evidence shows. Would there be a man who looks like Jesus, bears the holes in his hands like Jesus and has the wound in his side in the exact same spot as Jesus that is not Jesus?"Yes. As I said, there were many other people crucified who looked like Jesus. It is highly possible that one of these people had a hole in his side in the same area as Jesus."The Old Testament of the Bible also has many things written in it that aid in the proving of both God and Jesus Christ. First off, some of the things that were written in the Old Testament thousands of years ago do not seem to coincide with the what was known at the time. For example, the Book of Job was written sometime between 6000 and 3000 BC. One line from this book reads, "God stretches the northern sky over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing." (Job 27:7) Somehow before the Earth was even thought of as flat, and it was thought that mountains connected the Earth to heaven, this prophet knew the Earth was sitting in space."(Note: It's Job 26:7 for anyone who couldn't find it) These are Job's final words to his friends, so he could just be rambling and he is nowhere near specific enough to conclude that this is what he means. he could mean that God didn't connect Earth to heaven because there was sky. There are too many different ways you could interpret this."Next there are the Messianic Prophecies of the Old Testament which describe the things that Jesus did thousands of years before he did them. It is written that Jesus was to be born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2) to the Tribe of Judah (Genesis 49:10) and was to visit the Temple (Malachi 3:1) and to have risen from the dead (Isaiah 53:11). These are not ordinary events that anyone could just replicate if they chose to."Many religions have stories similar to Jesus, so it's not impossible they were talking about those. There will always be prophets, and these prophets will all preach different things. These passages can also be interpreted differently. "Finally, some proof that the New Testament is historically accurate and is not a legend, which would not make historical sense. Many details in the New Testament have been verified as not merely incidental, such as the pools at Bethesda (John 5:2)."Just because some details were true does not mean the entire writing is historical fact. You could view the bible as historical fiction.My main point is that there are many problems with the bible, including its many contradictions and the lack of evidence surrounding it.I realize most accept the existence of Jesus. I am a bit skeptical about this, however if I see some solid evidence I would accept that Jesus was a real person.In my efforts to not add any more arguments, my rebuttals were a bit lack-luster. However, I still believe that I deserve the vote, as all the evidence that Pro has given for proof of Jesus' divinity is also lack-luster and can be easily dismissed. Therefore Pro has not fulfilled his burden of proof, and I deserve your vote.