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Originally Posted by asaris
That argument doesn't exactly work, Will. There are three possibilities for allegedly immoral actions on the part of God.
1. You're wrong -- that is, the action isn't actually immoral
2. The Bible's wrong -- either the action did not take place or it is attributed to the wrong being.
3. 'God' is wrong -- in which case, the being described as performing these actions is not actually God, but merely some powerful being.
(Note that this doesn't actually require an objective morality, just that morality not be up to you.)
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Yes, in your opinion god is perfect, but that doesn't make it so in my opinion. Just as the term perfection, morality is relative to the subject. In my opinion, what god did in the Bible was often immoral. Of the Bible is wrong, then the entire concept of god is probably wrong and Christianity is meaningless. If god is wrong, then god isn't perfect...So I'm right no matter what.
The fact of the matter is that fiction can be anything you want it to be by it's nature, including perfect, but that perfection does not make it anything other than fiction. God has been written about in works of fiction for hundreds of years, and many representations of god are different than one another. If there is on true god, then your theory is negated. If there are many gods, each created by man, then Christianity is wrong.