It is reasonable to believe in the Christian god

Ok, I will use my third round to refute his arguments. In this round I intend to lay out several reasons why it is not reasonable to believe in the Christian God. 1. Theological Fatalism- The Christian god granted man free will. The Christian god is also omniscient which means god knows all that it is possible to know. Now the question becomes does Christianity grant god foreknowledge and the answer is a resounding yes, as Christianity is a prophetic religion where prophets were able to know the future, so therefore god would also be able to know the future, and what he is able to know he therefore knows. This becomes a serious problem for the religion. Here is why: If god knows event X will happen, then god knows even X will happen is true God knows event X will happen Event X will happen is true So X = T Now when we look at free will, if event X pertained to an agent, the agent would have to either be able to do X or some other alternative, which would by default not be event X. Yet, we know that even X cannot be False so this renders all other options cannot happen because of the fact that the law of non contradiction states that X and ~X is not a possible option. Lets clarify: God Knows event X will happen means X is true God gave us free will means event X is not decided yet. These are 2 irreconcilable beliefs rendering belief in the Christian god Illogical and unreasonable. 2. The problem of Excessive evil. The Christian god is suppose to be loving and all powerful. This means the Christian God can stop evil and would stop evil. Yet, we do not see this we see this God constantly allow children to starve and children to be raped. I will assume my opponent agrees with this statement, that at least in some instances of child starvation or child rape it would have been better for it to have been stopped. Yet, when defending the all loving god of Christianity we find that: Everything god does is the most loving, god allows every child rape or starvation. Therefore allowing every child rape and every starvation is the most loving thing he could do. If the Christian does not agree with that position, there belief in god is contradictory with other known beliefs and therefore not rational. Some stats you have to reconcile with the fact that God allows all this include: Combining deceased, unborn, infants, and children, the estimated total prematurely loss of conceived humans is in the area of 350 billion. The number who have lived to maturity probably approaches only 50 billion. If these numbers are broadly correct, the combined prenatal and childhood prematurity deaths exceeds those who have become at least young adults by approximately 7 to 1. (Gregory Paul: THEODICY"S PROBLEM: A STATISTICAL LOOK AT THE HOLOCAUST OF THE CHILDREN, AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF NATURAL EVIL FOR THE FREE WILL AND BEST OF ALL WORLDS HYPOTHESES pg 128-129 http://gregspaul.webs.com...) "According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they "die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death." http://www.globalissues.org... "One U.S. governmental source counts 78,188 child victims of sexual abuse in 2003. That"s a rate of 1.2 per 1,000 American children. " The 2001 National Crime Victimization Survey, which only covers youth 12-17, estimates that 1.9 per 1,000 children are raped or sexually assaulted. " National surveys of adults find that 9-28% of women say they experienced some type of sexual abuse or assault in childhood. "http://www.unh.edu... This facts are irreconcilable with the belief that the Christian God who is suppose to be all loving cannot exist. I will see where my opponent goes with this but Free will certainly cannot solve this. " all forms of the free will defense fail, and since this defense alone had any chance of success there is no plausible theodicy on offer."( J.L. Mackie The Miracle of Theism pg 176), but I will address that further if he tries. 3. Belief in the Theological Jesus is completely irrational and unreasonable. The theological Jesus is a myth. The key events that lead to the Christian god did not happen. This ranges from the virgin birth, where we find there are interesting reasons why the story says he was born of a virgin. As Bible Scholar Bart Ehrman puts it: "We have seen that Matthew is particularly keen to show that everything in Jesus birth, life, and death was a fulfillment of Scriptural prophecy. So why was he born of a virgin? It was because the Hebrew prophet Isaiah indicated that "a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call him Immanuel" (Matthew 1:23, quoting Isaiah 7:14). Actually, that"s not exactly what Isaiah said. In the Hebrew Bible, Isaiah indicates that a "young woman" will conceive and bear a son, a prediction not of a future Messiah but of an event that was soon to take place in Isaiah"s own day.3 When the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek, however, Isaiah"s "young woman" (Hebrew alma; there is a different Hebrew word for "virgin") came to be rendered by the Greek word for "virgin" (parthenos), and that is the form of the Bible that Matthew read." (Jesus Interrupted pg 74) That on top of the fact that a virgin birth on its own is so unlikely that we should be very skeptical of any such claim, makes this event irrational to believe. Yet, it is really the resurrection that is key, to maintain the Christian God. Yet, we see the same problem with a resurrection being so unlikely that any claim of one should be taken with a grain of salt. We know this how, well we can look at the past billions of deaths and find that there are exactly zero demonstrated resurrections after three days. We also know this based on science, the brain would be non functional after hours. The common retort to this is the resurrection is not unlikely with god, but that is nonsense, since if a god exists he existed while all the data was being compiled to determine that a resurrection is unlikely. So it remains irrational to believe that 2000 years ago a man rose from the dead because god wanted him to or because he was god. As Philosopher Matthew McCormick points out in his book "Atheism and the Case Against Christ" we have more evidence for witches in Salem in the 1600s then we do for the resurrection, yet we do not believe there were actually witches. There are signed affidavits, testimony of fathers sons turning on their own family that far outweighs the 4 contradictory gospels we have to establish the resurrection. Yet, my opponent knows there were no witches in Salem, but necessarily to accept the Christian god must believe on far inferior evidence that Jesus resurrected. 4. The Lack of Evidence for God is Evidence of absence. When we look at the Christian God there are certain things we should see, such as prayer being successful. Here are some verses to support it: James 5:14"15 "Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up." John 14: 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. Matthew 17:20 He replied, "Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, "Move from here to there," and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." Yet, what we find is Prayer to this god does not work. In 2006, a the largest prayer study found no impact from prayer. http://www.nytimes.com....