Here are a dozen easy-to-understand contradictions that indicate the impossibility of the God story

The Holy Bible contains many metaphors and interpretations, as it was written by humans. It all boils down to this: If we cannot understand our own brain, then how can we understand what created it? My arguments are all based on my interpretation of the Catholic religion. This is my response to every point you brought up. 1. Not only do we have free will, as previously mentioned in one of your debates, but there is also someone who happened to think he was as powerful as God. He is currently known as Satan. Without Satan, we would not have free will, as we would only have the positive choices that God would suggest. Satan, on the other hand, offers us the negative choices. Negative choices lead to negative consequences. Also, if we were rewarded with constantly positive outcomes in life, we would not have the ability to choose to do negative things. And sometimes we completely lack the ability to choose certain things positive due to their ancestors' mistakes. This is because Satan exists to create balance. He knew suffering would occur; it's necessary for free will, even if you don't choose the negativities that may arise. 2: God did not create Hell. Satan did. Again, a balance was required. Those who obey Satan go to the place of Satan. When the world ends, all will be freed from the land of fire. He knows we will rebel, he lets us do it, and he punishes us for it. 3: God did not regret what he created; he only wanted to teach it to change. Also, the flood was not worldwide. It only occurred locally, but the bible was written by imperfect humans who were a bit shortsighted. 4: Justice is not evil. The local flood was created to punish those who strayed off. They lived their lives on Earth terribly, so their lives were taken away. That still leaves them with the eternal life God has promised, even if it was in Hell. Even so, all were released from Hell when Jesus was crucified. He did not take their lives. He took their lives on Earth. 5: The human sacrifice was not to appease God; it was to appease humans. God showed that he would sacrifice a human version of himself in order to save us from sin. Our own sin. In the three days of Jesus' death, he was condemned into hell to make a deal with the devil to make him go back to heaven and change his ways. Instead, all who were condemned were brought to heaven. 6: We have not seen God himself. Only his reincarnation. He did not "publish a book". Humans did. Either way, the bible was written by imperfect humans... They don't know what's good. I don't believe in the statement because it was said by a person, not God himself. 7: God doesn't need our money; the church does. Again, the church is run by humans. Humans need food. To get food, you must buy it. To buy food, you need money. You know how it goes. Scientology is what you need to bash if you're using this argument. 8: God wants us to devote our lives to him to show thanks. One way to prove that is to give everything you don't need to people who need it to show that you value God more than materialistic things. With the Vatican argument, you should be arguing that the people who interpret God are contradictory, not God himself. Because of Satan, humans are trash. It's common knowledge. 9: God is not silent when priests do terrible things. God punishes them, both on Earth and after death. As I've said multiple times, it's the people you should be arguing about, not God himself. 10: God will talk to us if we listen. Spoiler alert: we don't. Humans find it easier to listen to priests than to listen to God himself, who no matter how much they say they believe still doubt God would talk directly to them. Again, it's humans at fault, not God. 11: God does mention a few of those. Either way, he didn't want to give us a science class. He wanted us to know more about him so that we could live a better life, and the only way we'd learn is by other people telling us. Humans didn't need all of that scientific information according to God; it was unnecessary. 12: God answers the prayers of those who deserve it, and that includes a lot more than middle-class Americans. As a simple non-omniscient teenaged trash, I can not fully answer that question, but I have a theory. This is just my interpretation, so don't think that all Christians believe this. Humans have been due for a mass extinction for a long time because that's just the way things should be. Humans have destroyed the Earth too much, and have strayed too far away. This doesn't mean God regrets us, it means we are no longer necessary. I believe that with God's infinite power there are infinite beings just like us. But we still have our free will, and we are choosing to disallow extinction. Extra credit: God did not choose text as a form of communications, humans did. Summary: God is not contradictory; the way humans interpret him are. I have some rules I'd like to add, too: No personal attacks. I've skimmed through a few of your previous debates after accidentally accepting this debate, and noticed that on a few occasions you were a bit... Harsh. PS: Sorry this is a bit haphazard, and just out of curiosity, what did dsjpk5 do?