God, as portrayed in the Bible, is unworthy of worship.

I thank my respectable opponent for his response. This is not going to be as thorough as I would have liked as I haven’t had much time to write my argument and this is last minute. As a way to get things started let me first point out the number of assumptions we must make. 1. Christianity is true. 2. God is real. 3. Everything in the Bible is absolute truth. In standard I disagree with number three and my opponent of course agrees with none. Nevertheless we have to make all these assumptions in order to have any kind of debate here. My opponent has already clarified the first two will be presumed. The third I warrant also needs to be assumed for the fact that this whole debate is about the God ACCORDING to the Bible. Thus we have to assume everything it says is truth. I hope my opponent agrees with that. I will first be making one argument with a few sub-contentions, then I will directly address the pros contentions. However all my arguments will tie into my refutations. 1. God according to the Bible? In every single one of my opponents’ arguments he uses HIS OWN reasoning to conclude that God, as betrayed in the Bible, is sadistic, immoral, unjust, cruel etc…This is where we find the flaw in his argument. Now there is nothing inherently wrong with logically arguing whether Gods actions are morally permissible, but does the Bible ever say He is any of these? No, pro makes his judgments completely on his own reasoning. This is a debate on what God is according to the Bible. Thus any verses that directly apply Gods characteristics outweigh verses that only imply Gods characteristics. For example what if the Bible said, “God condemns all hypocrites to be tortured and buried alive”? What if it also said, “God is merciful, kind and just”? We have two verses that seem contradictory. On one hand we have an act that no man on earth would deem just. On the other hand we have another verse saying God is kind and merciful. Which do we take? Well if we presume the Bible to be absolute truth the only logical choice is that God is merciful, just and kind. I use this example to illustrate this debate. My opponent has presented many points that seem to imply an unjust, unfair and outright immoral God. But then we also have all the verses that say He is merciful, kind, compassionate and loving. In other words it’s, seem vs. say. My opponents verses seem to point to an unjust God. My verses directly say God is a just God. The way my opponent has set up the debate we have to assume God is morally perfect; regardless of what actions He has, according to the old testament, committed that seem atrocious. Romans 2:4 - “Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?” Establishes that God is, according to the Bible, kid tolerant and patient. Geneses 18: 25 – “Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?” Psalm 11: 7 – “For the LORD is righteous, He loves righteousness; The upright will behold His face.” Psalm 100:5 - For the Lord is good; His lovingkindness is everlasting And His faithfulness to all generations. The list is endless. I could show verse after verse that shows that God is morally upright. The Bible is full of appraising verses. So we see that according to the Bible God is morally upright and thus worthy of worship. Here is another verse that presents an argument. Romans 11:33 - “Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!” Key word unfathomable. According to the Bible Gods ways are unfathomable and therefore we cannot presume to judge Him right or wrong in this debate by His ways. Though of course it is acceptable to make such judgments otherwise. I will go over all of my opponents contentions and briefly summarize how they have been refuted. “1) Undeserved punishing 1a) Adam and Eve 1b) The Plagues of Egypt” My opponents own logic on whether this is morally wrong is outweighed by the verses that directly say God is morally upright. “1c) Tower of Babel” An uncharacteristically somewhat poor argument from the pro. He reasons that man were achieving a great success but God unfairly botched it up and thus He is not worthy of worship. This ignores the fact that building the tower was a morally wrong thing to do. Also why should God care about mans petty achievements? Natural disasters Pro claims that according to Christianity God created everything and thus this would include tornadoes, floods earthquakes and other such natural disasters. Key word is natural. All these are natural. They occur due to scientific reasons. God does not directly make them. My opponents evidence is non-existent. Bedbugs and Praying Mantises My opponent fails to bring up evidence that God is in direct control of evolutionary process. Hell Already been refuted but for the sake of it I’ll present annihilationism as a counter. My opponent claims hell is a place of eternal torment. I contend it is not. According to the Bible, the soul is destroyed after death for non-believers. When exactly it is destroyed is unimportant. It may be soon after or it may be on judgment day. But it is obvious that eternal torment is a false and unfortunate doctrine. Mathew 10:28 very clearly supports the fact that God destroys souls and that He does so in Hell. "And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." "The soul that sinneth, it shall die" Ezekiel 18:20 "let him know that [a]he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins. " James 5:20 "but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, " 2 Timothy 1:10 But [a]we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the [b]preserving of the soul. Hebrews 10:39 "and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter;" 2 Peter 2:6 "But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in [a]the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed, " 2 Peter 2:12 "But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men." 2 Peter 3:7 Be it clear that annihilationism is only a sub-counter, and my main counter is the same as before. See my opening argument. I simply do not have time to directly address my opponents last two contentions. I apologize and will hopefully be able to do that next round. However while I cannot directly respond my refutations would be very similar to other rebuttals and I think any of the viewers as well as my opponent will know my contentions.