Instigator / Pro

Best.Korea

1233

rating

403

debates

39.45%

won

Topic

#5828

It is possible that Christian God exists

Status

Finished

The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

Winner & statistics

Winner

After 1 vote and with 1 point ahead, the winner is...

Moozer325

Parameters

Publication date: 11.25.2024 02:25AM
Last updated date: 12.10.2024 10:14PM
Type: Standard
Number of rounds: 1
Time for argument: Two weeks
Max argument characters: 10,000
Voting period: Two weeks
Point system: Winner selection
Voting system: Open

Contender / Con

Moozer325

1584

rating

debates

70.69%

won

Description

No information

Round 1

Best.Korea

11.25.2024 02:57AM

Pro

Whoever created this world is either insane either psychopath, and probably a liar too, and since Christian God fits all of those descriptions, one can conclude he even probably exists. Problem solved.

Moozer325

11.26.2024 10:14PM

Con

Well in that case I won’t put in too much effort.

As far as I can tell, your argument goes as:

Premise 1: The world was probably created by something that is a phsycopath, insane, and a liar

Premise 2: Christian god is all of these things

Conclusion: Christian God is likely to exist

There are a few logical fallacies with this argument. First, the conclusion is not correctly derived from the premises. It is true that Christian god is more likely to exist than a deity that has the qualities described, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that Christian god is likely.

Second, you provide no reasoning to support premise 1, so that one can’t stand.

Third, Christian God as described in the Bible is perfectly good, and thus cannot lie or be insane.

To quickly uphold my end of the burden of proof. Christian god wrote the Bible according the the Bible itself. The Bible contains contradictions, the death of Judas just to name one. A perfect deity doesn’t contradict itself, thus Christian god cannot be real.

Ferbalot

11.27.2024 05:20AM

Criterion

Pro

Tie

Con

Points

Winner

1 point(s)

Reason:

Con demonstrated several logical flaws in Pro's only argument and gave a logically valid argument for why the Christian God can't exist. (Not that it's necessarily sound.)

There's something to be said for the fact that Pro cannot possibly respond to Con since there's only one round. But Con also seemingly can't possibly avoid bringing up arguments which Pro has no opportunity to respond to. However since Pro had ample opportunity to realize that this would happen and still created the debate with such a condition, it seems Con must be allowed to win this for fear of Pro otherwise being able to automatically win or draw all 1 round debates where the BoP is not primarily theirs.