The bible is a moral book

Before I continue onto the next stage, there is a part I missed from my opponents opening statement."God is also the one who hardened Pharoah's heart, it wasn't Satan: Exodus 10:1 "Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him""To answer this I'll point to some previous scripture.Exodus 8:15: But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said.Exodus 8:19: the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God.” But Pharaoh’s heart was hard and he would not listen, just as the Lord had said.Exodus 8:32: But this time also Pharaoh hardened his heart and would not let the people go.Exodus 9:7: Pharaoh investigated and found that not even one of the animals of the Israelites had died. Yet his heart was unyielding and he would not let the people go.Exodus 9:34-35: When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had stopped, he sinned again: He and his officials hardened their hearts. So Pharaoh’s heart was hard and he would not let the Israelites go, just as the Lord had said through Moses.Eventually in Exodus 9:12 we read the following: But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart and he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said to Moses.Now there are two explanations to this story, both of which are perfectly viable. Option 1, God did not perform some magic trick to harden pharaohs heart, rather the person of God cause pharaohs heart to be hardend. Almost as if God was saying "My presence will harden his heard."Option 2, God did actually harden pharaohs heart through divine intervention. Even if this is true, we still see pharoah repeatedly rejecting God. God is justified in doing this because of the chances he already gave him. For all we know his advisors may have yet been in a position to talk him out of his current course of action. The bible, however, tells us his advisors hardened their own hearts as well. Now that I have cleared that up, I'd like to address my opponents most recent comments.The biggest defense my opponent makes is that original sin is not biblical, or commonly accepted doctrine. Allow me to clear some things up. There are about 2.2-2.4 billion christians in the world. (1) About 1.2 billion of those are Catholic, and about 600-800 million are Protestant. Protestant and Catholic doctrine teach original sin. This is about 2 billions out of 2.4 billion, or 83%. At the very least, not even counting all of the other christian sects that teach original sin, 83% of christians are part of an organization that teaches original sin. Psalm 51:5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned1 Corinthians 15:21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.These verses, in addition to the entire Genesis chapter 3 story, clearly teaches that sin entered the world by Adam and Eve. Because Adam sinned against God, his offspring, carrying his cursed genes, were also cursed. Since Adam was the first man, everyone from then on would thus be cursed. Not only was adam cursed, but as was the entire universe. (Genesis Story)Romans 3:23 says "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."The bible clearly teaches original sin. Mormonism is not a sect of Christianity, rather a cult founded only in the last few hundred years."Why couldn't he make the people good as a solution?"God made us as free willed individuals, and he will not force us to love him. These are stories in scripture of God strengthening people's faith, and there are also stories of him cursing people. If we choose to go in any given direction, he may choose to help us on our way -- but he has never been recorded to make that decision before he was already rejected."Which seems more rational when you're an omnipotent god: end the lives of all of the evil people, when you might be responsible for them being evil to begin with since you harden people's hearts, and then punish them eternally for that, or to make them act good so that they can continue living on earth?"This is a loaded question, in that it does not provide the entire context. In no way was God responsible for humanity, Adam, turning its back on God. They chose to reject him. As previously stated, God has only been recorded to harden hearts after they have made their choice to reject God. To even give them that choice to begin with is evidence of his grace and mercy. God will not intervene in our free choices to turn and reject him. God does not want robots who only worship him because they must -- God wants his subjects to be those who willingly come to him."What is moral about holding people who had nothing to do with the fall of Adam accountable for that? By cursing everyone after Adam, he punished everyone for something they didn't do. What is just or moral about that?"When Adam sinned, God stopped upholding the world. Because of this, our world was cursed. Adam, and his decendants, now had the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The bible says, as previously quoted, that we have all sinned. Not only were we born sinners, but we all reject and turn on God on a daily basis."So, would it be perfectly justifiable if President Trump started puting people to death for mocking him? If it's not, why is it justifiable for God?"Did President Trump create every person who was mocking him? Is President Trump a holy, perfect, and glorious character who is outside our wildest imagination? Is President Trump without sin? No man is without sin, and God is. What obligation does a perfect God have towards an insignificant sinner mocking him? Absolutely none. God was already meciful in allowing him the chance of salvation -- Why should we expect him to put up with our mockery in addition to this? President Trump is in no way comparable to a divine, heavenly figure of authority -- our creator."No, we've not all rejected him. If I would have stayed in my faith, there is no way you could argue I rejected him. There's no way you can argue that life-long Christians rejected him."This is a good dream, however it is not reality. Scripture tells us we all sin. Sin is anything we say, think, or do that breaks God's law. Breaking God's law is rejection. We have all rejected God by means of sin."Additionally, I was going to ask what gives god authority over human life. I suppose you could argue, "because he created us" but before you do that, I wish to point out a problem in that thinking: My mom and dad created me physically, but it's not moral for them to kill me once I've been born. Why is there a different standard for God in relation to his creations? Why is it morally okay for him to kill his creations, but not morraly okay for us to kill our creations?"First off, could you explain where your morality comes from? Why does the state of being in the womb give you no rights to life, yet the state of being outside the womb suddenly makes you a valued human? Why is it acceptable for a woman to kill a child in the womb, but if a man kills a pregnant woman he is charged with two murders? So this is really something you should be telling me. Why is it morally okay for a parent to kill their child until they're out of the womb? Why is a parent not able to kill their child until he becomes independent? It seems sort of arbitrary for us to try and put limits on this, as it has no base in objectivity or fact. We only dictate when it's acceptable to kill, and when it is not. Should this not be God's decision to make? Another thing to keep in mind, is that we are not our own. 1 Corinthians 1 6:19-20: Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.Psalm 24:1: The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it;The bible clearly indicates that God owns us. He made us. What we think we own, is really on loan. Our children are made using what God created. We cannot truely create out of nothing as God did. We can only use what God has given us to make things. Following this logic, anything we make is still Gods -- Including our children. We do not have true domination over our children, a choice of life or death, because they aren't really ours."a parent giving their child a gift, and the child throws away the gift. The parent is the one who created that child. That child is particularly rebellious against their parents. Would the parents be justified in killing their child?"The answer to this question is no. As we've discussed before, the parent did not truely create that child on his own. The parent used what was God's to make the child. A parent is also not holy and perfect -- on a different level from the child. God has a position of authority in that he is perfect -- we do not have that position of authority over anybody."You're essentially wanting this judge to make the child of a murderer get the death penalty or be punished for the murder that their parent committed, only because they are related to them."As stated before, we all sin daily. We all turn from and reject God. Since we have each fallen from Christ, we are all on trial for our sins. God, being a just God, must punish these transgressions of his glory, his standard.Sources:(1) http://www.pewforum.org...(2) https://simple.wikipedia.org...;