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Christianity is true if and only if the God of the Old Testament is true.
The God of the Old Testament is false.
Therefore Christianity is false.

We know the God of the Old Testament is false because the evidence tells us it is. To begin with the Old Testament itself is a work of fiction that evolved over time. Sure pieces of it have a basis in poorly remember or greatly embellished historical people and events, but those small pieces don’t make the rest of the book true. Much of the book was borrowed from other religions. Much of the Book of Genesis was borrowed from earlier Mesopotamian religion. This includes The Garden of Eden, Adam, the flat Earth, the concept of heaven and the Flood story. Much of the Book of Proverbs was originally Egyptian. Some of it copied nearly word for word.

The Exodus story simply never happened as written in the Bible. The Jewish people never lived as slaves in Egypt. Therefore they never left Egypt. The story of the young Moses is an adaptation of the story of King Sargon. The parting of the Red Sea has its roots in the Mesopotamian creation myth. The murder of the Egyptian overseer comes from the Egyptian Tale of Sinuhe. Even the Ten Commandments themselves are based on another earlier religion. Their origins are the Laws of Hammurabi.

Most agree the Book of Joshua is not an accurate historical account of the early history of Israel and the archeological record agrees. The conquest never happened. The cities of Ai, Jericho, Gibeon and Hazor were not all even occupied during that period in history. So they could not have been conquered during the same timeframe. The evidence tells us the Israelis didn’t conquer the Canaanites. They were the Canaanites. Their culture grew out of the local population from the remnants left after the Bronze Age collapse.

Yahweh himself is no different than any other theistic god in that he is a construct of the mind of people. He most likely began as a local deity and slowly grew over time into what he is purported to be now by taking on the attributes of other gods. He changed from a god of war into the creator slowly over time. The fact that he was accepted as just one god of many until just a few centuries before the Christian era is well documented in both the archeological record and even in the texts of the Abrahamic cults. He even had a consort.

The God of the Old Testament is not what many wish him to be. Without him, the God of the New Testament is just so much wishful thinking.

Your argument is based that Satan does not exist and started false religions. It also rests on HIS-story, which is the selective acceptance of some history as true and other history as false.