Oh joy, here come the god paradoxes to ruin yet another actual debate formulated by great points =/

I will just make one point concerning a point someone made earlier, not planing on arguing it all the way, I just happened to see it.

"Why would god create the devil?"

Well. Because god wanted you to make the right decisions. But in order for god to see whether or not you will, he needs an opposition. So he creates a perfect angel, who becomes greedy, eventually controls hell and becomes known as "The Devil" or "Satan" or "Diablo" or "Beezleboss", etc. etc. All descriptive words in any language are relative. To say one is holy, righteous, spiritual, moral, "good", requires the opposite or lesser of that quality to be compared to. Satan needs to be created for the epitome of evil and sins to exist. With such, god can show humanity what NOT to do, and compare his right, to the devil's wrong.

Also, I think these types of debates foil down to specific questions. Here is one question maybe the people actively posting here can discuss: Say there is a God, which is all-knowing and all powerful, and therefore we don't have free-will, just the illusion of such, when in reality we are all puppets to the game of life which God has designed for us. Would this or would this not provide a more acceptable, understandable, figure for people to believe in for atheists or not?