God is worse than Hitler

Thanks for the passionate response. I will begin with your statement that >>> God doesn't just kill for no reason. The Egyptians were an evil people. God made the perfect decision in that scenario. He doesn't like to kill people, I promise you. But He does in some cases when it results in the best case scenario. We can't know what would've happened if God hadn't done what he did. That's why it's not up to us. <<< I can easily argue that the Egyptians were not an evil people. They contributed a lot to modern life. They discovered papyrus (an early form of paper). They invented hieroglyphics and made advances in astronomy to be able to point their pyramids towards the sun. During the supposed time of the Hebrew's exodus from Egypt their economy was already faltering. Floods of the Nile had ruined crops and the Egyptians couldn't afford to release the very center stone of their economy. Monarchies always rely on slaves or serfs to supply income especially totalitarian monarchies, which Egypt certainly was. (Constitutional monarchies tax nobles, providing extra revenue which totalitarians don't have. However, they face uprising from the Nobles or a loss of control due to the constitution. ) How could God expect them to do this? It would condemn all Egyptians to die. Also, God's "absolutely right" system of morals is too rigid. One instance of murder is by no means the same as another. As God has shown, it is entirely permissible to kill as many people as you wish as long as they meet the prerequisite of being "evil. " My opponent's last paragraph dooms his case. >>> Lastly, the fact is, that God created the world. The bible states as a fact, that if you don't believe in Christ, then you will go to hell. That' the way God made it. God can't be around sin. God loves everyone, but if they don't choose to accept his sacrifice for them, then they can't go to Heaven. It doesn't matter what we think, because we didn't create the whole uni God gives us every chance in the world to turn to him. He isn't asking anyone to do anything impossible, all he asks is that we accept his sacrifice. If we don't then we have to go to hell. If we do accept his sacrifice, then we will live with him in heaven forever. <<< This may be an easy thing for Americans to do, but think about others. There are many religions saying you must believe in them or else. That's another problem with God, a pure true ruler or message shouldn't carry a threat. Christianity survives by scaring people into joining for fear of Hell. Why couldn't God make a separate paradise, away from him so that he wouldn't feel sin but close enough to be amazing? Why does he instantly have to switch from paradise to Hell? Now back to my point about non-Americans. Let's say you're a child living in the deeply Islam Middle East. Your whole life you are told that anything to do with the West is evil. (You should see some of their propaganda, and videos of kindergarteners talking about bombing the U. S. and Israel. ) Becoming a Christian or Jew is a death sentence. You can't accept God's word without being either expelled from the country or killed. Getting out of the Middle East is also not an option for almost everybody so when my opponent says " He isn't asking anyone to do anything impossible" we know this is not the case. Then my opponent tries to justify God's "sacrifice. " I think the reason Jesus died violently on the cross is mainly his fault. If God had chosen a better time for a savior to be introduced, he would just have to look at Muhammad. With God's "infinite knowledge" and ability to apparently see the future, couldn't he have foreseen a better time in which his message would have been just as effective and Jesus would have survived? I think God just did it to shock his followers. Then my opponent talks about free will and the Garden of Eden. I have a lot of arguments I could use to disprove free will. God made human nature and human nature is self-preservation. Incidentally, most instances of a human following this nature is a "sin. " Couldn't God have made us have a better overall nature and still give us free will, only without the temptations of following our human nature? I don't think there is any set of morals. Murder isn't usually right but it CAN be. As we can see in a couple of debates concerning this like: . http://www.debate.org... . http://www.debate.org... . http://www.debate.org... If killing one person can sometimes be right, it once again shows that God's system is too strict. He would rather a lot of people died instead of one person. Then my opponent goes on to say that human beings can't create anything. What happened to free will? Now the children aren't their children, they are creations of God that have nothing to do with the parents.