As the Bible describes God, He is inconsistent in His nature

======== Introduction ======== My opponent claims that I haven't shown how the Christian God is inconsistent, however, I must remind him of the definition of "inconsistent." Inconsistent: Not consistent in principles, conduct; acting at variance with professed principles. [1] This has been essentially what I have been trying to demonstrate this entire debate. ====================================== Unjustified and Inconsistency of the Christian God's Murders ====================================== {*We are trying to determine whether God was inconsistent in His nature by examining His actions and the circumstances provided and comparing them to God's laws and standards.*} I have provided reasons why his murders were inconsistent. Yahweh is omni-benevolent and I expect him to correct bad behavior in a benevolent manner. Global genocide =/= benevolent. Especially when considering that the reason for genocide was thought crime. You also failed to refute any of my previous arguments about God punishing those who exercise their free will, free will that was granted to them. You don't give someone a gift and then punish them for using it. You say that forcefully stopping bad behavior is violating free will and suggest that killing them is the best way to do so. However, killing is violating their free will and corrective action could be done in a much more sophisticated and benevolent way, especially for an omnipotent God. To deny that he can't find a better way to correct bad behavior is to contradict his omnipotence. I know you think that he is consistent given the laws he put forth, but his own laws are contradictory and even commits the very crimes that he forbids. He forbids killing, yet kills people. He condemns evil, yet proudly admits that he sends evil upon his people (I Kings 14:10 [In this verse, he sends evil because a man urinated on a wall. What a terrible sin.]). [2] THE FLOOD {*Thinking nothing but evil for even a short period of time will lead to committing evil, and the people of earth had been thinking nothing but evil for approximately 100 years before the Flood began (Genesis 5:32, 7:6).*} My opponent is trying to defend Yahweh's decision to slaughter people for thought crime, but it's not withstanding. He also tries to conclude that: evil thoughts, therefore evil actions. This is not true at all nor does he have any basis for such claim. People think many things and don't actually follow through. Many people probably have the desire to kill those who have wronged them, but don't actually commit the act. A just God would never punish a man for thinking. Con attempted to show that it was possible that there were no babies on earth given the abortions and child sacrifices (sacrifices probably demanded by God; he demanded child sacrifices with a side of ripe fruits and liquor in Exodus 22:29 [2]) and therefore infants may have been spared. There's two problems with this. First of all, it's highly unlikely that the entire globe was void of any infants, and even if that were so, that still doesn't change the fact that God kills babies. Con is using this to defend that God doesn't kill sin-free babies, yet he does it all the time as I pointed out in previous rounds. "Now go and smite Amalek, and UTTERLY DESTROY all that they have, and spare them not; but SLAY both man and woman, INFANT and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and a$$." (I Samuel 15:2-3) [2] This is one of the most inconsistent things Yahweh could do. He demands that we don't sin and thus, he will have mercy on you. However, infants who are not capable of sin get slaughtered anyways, so what happened to having mercy on those who are sin-free? {*As such, when sin entered the world through man's sin (Genesis 3:6-7), ALL of Creation (even the animals) began to suffer (Romans 8:22).*} I should not be born guilty for someone else's sins. I should not be responsible nor punished for the sins of another man. This is the epitome of immorality. KILLING 3000 FOR DANCING {*The verses Pro listed said nothing of the dancing. That was the first mistake and it deserved to be pointed out.*} It wasn't a mistake. I didn't feel the need to quote the part about dancing, I just quoted the verse that stated the slaughter of 3,000 men and told the readers why they were killed as described several verses earlier. Con asserts that I made the mistake of citing the wrong reason for killing the 3,000 men. He claims that "Of all those who danced around the idol, only those who did not come stand by Moses when he asked who was on God's side were the ones that were killed." However, the verse implies that they were killed for dancing. The people were dancing around the golden calf, and Moses interrupted them and asked who is on the Lord's side. However, if the people weren't dancing around the calf, Moses wouldn't have condemned them in the first place. That was the primary reason for the whole incident. Moses' sole reason for asking "who is on the Lord's side" was because of the dancing, and thus God commanded them to be killed. UNJUSTIFIED KILLING {*According to the sins committed, God decided on punishments and carried them out, and Pro is claiming that the punishments were too harsh.*} His cruel punishments were contradictory to his claim that he is a merciful God. --->An inconsistent act committed by Yahweh summed up in one verse.<--- "God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false, so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness." - (2 Thessalonians 2:11-12) [3] He forces people to believe in lies and then condemns them for believing the lie. ========= CONCLUSION ========= In conclusion, I have clearly demonstrated that the Christian God is "not consistent in principles and conduct and acts at variance with professed principles," the very definition of inconsistent. My opponent has also left many of my arguments uncontested. I believe Mark Twain summed up the inconsistency of Yahweh perfectly when he stated that he's a God "who mouths justice and invented hell - mouths mercy and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules, and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all." Thank you for reading. [1] http://dictionary.reference.com... [2] http://skepticsannotatedbible.com... [3] http://quod.lib.umich.edu...