Worshiping God

Re: Perceived duality I'm not saying God couldn't create a world with no evil, only good. What I'm saying about this point is two-part: A> He has no obligation to us to eliminate all our sufferings. He does not have to deal with all our problems for us. We should still worship him for creating us in this case. B> Why would God then have any reason to be happy about our good works? If everyone's automatically good by nature, there's nothing remarkable about a good person. Good is only remarkable when put in contrast with evil. And a world of good would probably be boring for God to watch, and he should not place our insignificant interests above his own. This isn't to say he doesn't love us. The sacrificies he would be making [he, an infinite being, would be less happy] FAR outweigh the insignificant troubles of the human race. Just because you love someone doesn't mean you take any and all sacrifices to help that person. For instance, if taking a bullet in the leg would help my mother save 1$ a month, I would not do it. My leg is more important than her 1$ a month. Just as God's happiness is more important than reducing our suffering. Just because our creator isn't ONLY focused on our best interests does not mean he does not have our best interest in mind. See the 1$ a month for a shot in the leg analogy. God shouldn't take the proverbial bullet in the leg just to save us our 1$ a month. My opponenet suggests that he could not worship our creator, simply because our creator won't do whatever it takes to eliminate all human suffering in the world. This is a ridiculous expectation my opponent places on God. My opponent claims that "Victims of injustice can be given just rewards in the afterlife as compensation, injustice-doers can be given just punishment." should not be given weight in this debate, since I cannot prove it. However, consider that we cannot prove any arguments at all about the nature of God and the supernatural realm. I ask that we still consider this as a possiblity, not that it matters. The unlucky can remain unlucky - it is not God's burden to bear to make sure everyone sees justice. He created us! And we're ungrateful because some of our lives aren't quite as good as they could be? At least we have lives. Comparing worshiping God to worshiping an influential leader is a faulty analogy. God CREATED us. He didn't just help out our economy. He didn't just help us goain new territory. These are insignificant, and most would say these do not merit worship. Also, consider that my opponent uses examples like Hitler and Stalin, but does not include the horrors these men commited. Even if helping an economy or military of the nation was enough to worship someone based on, the injustices these men would far outweigh that. My opponent knew this, and that's why he used such grim examples, cleverly omitting the bad details to make it seem that the analogy fits with God too. However, my opponent has shown no injustice done to man by God. Even if there was injustice done, it would be very difficult for this to outweigh the good of CREATING us. So that's it for the first contention. It comes down to this: We should worship God because he created us. This is the most beneficial thing anything has ever done for us, or ever will. If anything merits worship, it's this. Next, the "self-serving" argument. I argued that it was also a good idea to worship God because God is likely to help those who worship him. My opponenet responds against this, claiming that this argument has no basis. Let's think about ANY relationship. If a person is noce to you, you are likely to be nice to him. If a person is mean to you, or ignores yyou because you're just not important enough, you're more likely to spite them, or at least to not help them. I am NOT arguing that everything on Earth is fair. Far from it. However, most of what happens on Earth is due to natural laws, and therefore not based on explicit decisions by God. God's not thinking "Hmm, should I ruin some village with a Tsunami today?" IT JUST HAPPENS SOMETIMES. The best advice I can give for this is QQ more nubsauce. It's very rational to think that God would help those who worship him, at least in the afterlife. Why? Because any intelligence we DO understand would act that way, so why would we expect the opposite from God? So let's say there's an extremely generous 90% chance that God won't help us if we worship him. That makes a 10% chance that he will. Since God not helping us isn't a loss, and God helping us is a gain, the average value is still a gain. Therefore, we should indeed expect it to help us if we worship God, and thus we should worship him for this reason as well.