Christian God = Loving Father

Con, I am glad to see that you understood the importance of having an objective moral standard in which to base your reality off of. However, you only said you based your morals on ethics, which is just a synomym for morals, and it doesn't really solve your problem. Which set of ethics are you basing it off of? Every society has a different set of ethics. For example, it would be wrong for one to say that America has a better set of ethics than Europe. How can one judge which country has a better system of ethics? Without an objective reality, one may end up seeing morality as whatever works best for each society, which would then not allow anyone to criticize the ancient Hebrew society. If my opponent wishes to argue that the Christian Moral Lawgiver of humanity (God) is not a loving Father, then he must use another set of ethics given by another lawgiver of humanity. By which moral standard will you judge the Christian God, other than your own subjective moral views (as this cannot suffice, as every human being has a different set of morals).My opponent brings up a few laws that lead to the death penalty- those who commit adultery, rebellious children, and those who practive sorcery. I see no problem with a society setting up laws that, when violated, invoke the death penalty. If someone lives in a society where commiting adultery is convicted by death, and that person commits adultery, he had full knowledge of the consequences. How is this unfair?My opponent informs us how the ancient Hebrews would take slaves from other nearby civilizations (non Hebrews but still Israelites). These slaves were still to be treated kindly; Leviticus 25 "but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly". My opponent is not taking into account how terrible live was for the surrounding nations; how the slaves were already very poor people who, under slavery, were provided with work, food, shelter, etc. Why is this wrong? Why was it wrong for the ancient Hebrews to purchase workers from the nearby nations that they were in war with? Who says that any form of servanthood is objectively wrong?My opponent brings up the fact that, if a man rapes a woman, his punishment is to pay money and marry that woman. He then claims this is unfair. Now, this is not God condoning rape. This is, once rape happens, the best way to deal with the situation. In those times, men wanted virgins to marry. If a woman was violated, she would never marry for the rest of her life. This method allowed for a solution. Our modern day culture would not approve of this. Fine. But back then, children were gravely important. A woman would do anything to have children, and this is what that law ensured.My opponent sources a text where God punishes a king for committing adultery. God takes some of the wives of the king and gives them over to a neighbor of his. How is this cruel or unfair? The king was served justly and learned his lesson, and I'm very sure the neighbor was very happy with the circumstances. :)Con seems to have had many unpleasant encounters with many Chrisians in his past. I am truly sorry for the misunderstandings that people have with Scriptures, and their inability to preach a loving message while instead preaching the fear of hellfire into innocent people. But I don't see why Con would argue that if God exists, He seems to have forsaken His children. The Christian God teaches those who wish on how to live morally objective lives, and their reward is a resurrection to eternal life. He only punishes the wicked by not granting them eternal life, and I see this as completely fair as they do not deserve eternal life. I see a God who gave Moses a law system for a Jewish society until the messiah came (and they are seemingly harsh laws when viewed through our modern day lense), and these were the best laws for an ancient society with limited resources and people. He judged and corrected the people when necessary, and eventually gave a Messiah to break the Mosaic Laws to enter a new covenant to the world of living righteously to inherit a resurrection to eternal life. I argue that this is a loving Father.