User blog comment:TimFromLA/Religion and Supernatural/@comment-4920092-20130309170318

Nice Strawmen, but none of those are any actual challenge.

Jesus' point in all of those is that if a Christian prays, God is happy to provide. The catch being the definition of Christian is one who is filled with the Holy Spirit and conformed the image of Christ (Ephesians 1:3-6). Therefore, they will be praying for God's desires, not their own.

Lucifer is not the name of the Devil. Some monk decided it was. The term actually means "morning star". In latin, it's lucifer, in Hebrew, it's helel. In neither case is it a name. In Isaiah, it is used to sarcastically refer the King of Babylon, and in the New Testament is used twice to refer to Christ.

Judges 11 - Not human sacrifice. It was actually a punishment because Jephthah attempted to bribe God. God knew the first person he would meet would be his daughter.

Joshua 7 - Not sacrifice, execution.

1 Kings 13 - A prophecy. God wasn't endorsing it, He just said it would happen.

All the instances of rape were instances of evil. That's the point of the Bible - nobody is righteous except Jesus. So what? Evil people acted evilly? I don't see how this surprises anyone.

Yes, God does hate sin. And the reason the people who committed rape or, in fact, you and I aren't killed instantly is evidence of God's grace. Here you mistakenly elevate God's wrath and justice OVER His grace and love, when they all work together in harmony. So no, incest is not fine either and the same arguments I gave for rape apply for incest.

The Bible even predicts that there will be a lot of people who claim to be Christian but aren't! And thos are the people who protest funerals and mosques. They are the hate-filled hypocrites.

So that answers all your criticisms. I will not attack your position mostly because I don't have time right now, but if you really want to get into a debate, just let me know. Fair warning, while I don't have any degrees, I'm a de facto major in both theology and apologetics.