Resolved: YHWH should not be worshipped

Thanks again Pro for speedy response. I am excited for this conclusion in R4 that you have coming up. As we did not set the criteria for when I must refute your definitions I believe now is the time as you have brought them into the debate as reasons to not follow God. I do not agree with the definition of Sheol or hell. Hell in Scripture is a place of eternal torment and suffering as Jesus Himself said where the worm never dies and the fire is not quenched. (1) The common misconception is hell is simply being separate from God is false according to Scripture. (Psalm 139) Hell is hell because God is there,Hell is this all-powerful God's wrath and anger being unleashed in a place upon those who have rejected the sacrifice of His Beloved Son. Some may say that is not fair because I didn't know, but that is also another misconception. According to John 16: 8-11 the Holy Spirit is at work on the earth convicting all men and women of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. To go into details is not necessary right now for the sake of this debate, but this is how Romans 1:18-23 can state that all men are without excuse. The reason I bring this up is so we can get beyond the basics of the lie that God punishes us and sends us to hell without making Himself more obvious. That is the very reason Psalm 53:1 the fool has said in his heart there is no God. I know you are not disputing the existence of the God of the Bible, but that we should not follow Him and we are okay without Him and that is not the conclusion in Scripture or the Biblical definition of hell.Next I will address your definition of heaven which I believe is also skewed from the Biblical definition. The only reason I did not refute your argument about this is because your conclusion was accurate and your premises to get to the conclusion were false. Meaning our motives for being in heaven are Him and not materialistic things, but Scripture is clear about some of the benefits in heaven along with His presence. Now to separate the benefits from the Benefit Giver would be wrong. Some things God promises in heaven are no more pain, sickness, death and so on.(Revelation 21:4) And if you read the entirety of Revelation 21 the reason for such things is because that is the kind of God we are following. Another promise is Jesus Himself going to prepare mansions for us in heaven.(John 14:2) Now I am not going to go through the entirety of Scripture to show you what heaven is like, but here are a few more benefits if you will God says in His presence is the fullness of joy(Psalm 16:11), and at His right Hand are pleasures forevermore found in the very same verse. So it appears we will have some benefits if we will be in a perpetual state of joy, peace , and true happiness. But as I said earlier I agree with you on what Scripture says about our motives, clearly our motives should be God Himself. This is a big problem with the way Christianity is presented and the video(3) is the best Biblical view of why we follow God. If you have the time listen to this sermon in its entirety. God is not a means, He is the end. He is the Beginning and the End, He is the First and the Last, He is the Alpha and the Omega. This is not about heaven or hell this is about the Living God who created all things, who loves us so much He sent His Son to die for us. So if you are looking for some humanistic reason for following this Great King you are asking me to go against the very grain of Scripture and go against the very truth of Biblical Christianity. Lastly, I would like to conclude with your view of worship. Worship in the Hebrew and Greek language has nothing to do with singing songs and going to Church, it has to do with posture.(4) Philippians 2:5-11 (5) States that every knee will bow and every tongue WILL confess Jesus is Lord so it is not a matter of if you will worship Him it is a matter of when. You can choose now on the earth, which also has benefits in this life and in the age to come, or on Judgment Day, but every human, demon, and angel will bow before the King of Glory. I would like to thank Pro for such an interesting debate. I have yet to see the B.O.P. which Pro has taken on give me any reason with actual evidence to back it up for not following YHWH. So I am pretty excited for your R4 conclusion. 1.http://bible.cc... Also read the commentaries at the bottom they all agree on the eternal element of suffering in hell.2.http://www.biblegateway.com...3.http://www.youtube.com...4.http://kencarlson.org...5.http://www.biblegateway.com...