The Bible

Before I begin I want to say since this is the final round there are good things in the Bile that I do think are good and that I agree with, but I simply want to point out many contradictions from the old testament going into the new testament. If you believe the Bible than you know God is all powerful and all knowing, so he knows of all the actions that will occur before they happen. To say He was simply lonely and only created the Earth and mankind to have companions seems below God's ego. For you to say God was simply unhappy with mankind and flooding the entire Earth and wiping out all but one man and his family seems very reckless and uncaring. There could have been small children on the planet who caused no harm to anyone or did nothing wrong but God killed them anyway shows He doesn't have as much love and patience and tolerance for humanity as the Bible would like us to believe. To address slavery, Moses indeed freed the Hebrew slaves from the Pharaoh, but when God is laying down the laws of the land, it was God Himself who told the rules and laws for slaves. He specifically told Moses how long you can own slaves and how to beat them. And this only applied to Hebrew slaves, but to other people it was even harsher. In Deuteronomy 20: 10-14 it states, " When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. 11 If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. 12 If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. 13 When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. 14 As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies." And in Ephesians 6:5 it tells slaves, "Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ." God himself tells people to not only take your enemies a slaves but to enjoy the spoils and do to them as you please. If God truly opposed slavery he would have put a stop to it and simply put a commandment such as thou shalt not own another human being as property. Jesus himself had every opportunity to speak out against it and to tell his disciples not to engage in it and abolish it but he never did. And I want to point out that when the US was in talks to abolish slavery many slave owners used the Bible to justify owning slaves. For you to say that if God kills someone it is for reasons we don't understand is brushing His actions under the rug. And one of the plagues of Egypt was killing the firstborn son of Egyptians, many of whom could have been infants and children who had nothing to do with oppressing Hebrews. And in the new testament Jesus is both the son of God and God incarnate, so he sacrificed Himself to Himself to get out of the mess of original sin he caused. Jesus wanted people to seek salvation through him, so right there people are worshiping him as another God, which is against one of the ten commandments. That's why Jews reject him as the savior by the way. I will end here by saying the Bible is full of immoral acts God had no problem with, so if you want to believe the Bible you can do so, but I will choose not to believe it as the book of ultimate enlightenment and morality.