Resolved: YHWH should not be worshipped

In regards to your R1 response the Lord used the Israelites to drive out the people because of their sin. I stated it was God's motive was not blind genocide, but it was clearly the judgment of God according to Scripture. My argument was clear that you are drawing conclusions about the facts of Scripture that do not line up with the narrative explanation Scripture gives. Israel was not righteous either, but God had made promises to their fathers about that land. So God used Israel as His tool for judgment as well as fulfilling His promise to give them that land. The motive was not the land it was just a bonus, the motive was the judgment of a righteous God. The trouble is God gets accused of evil because He doesn't prevent all evil, but when He decides to judge evil according to His word once again you call Him evil. Romans 6:23 states the wages of sin is death and the people He had wiped out all sinned according to Romans 3:23 all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Now the question that always comes up is what about the innocent people and the children while that answer is simple if you look at eternity. If anyone who was in a nation or people group that the judgment of God has come upon is righteous they will be saved and in heaven for eternity in a place filled with joy and peace. All these truths are in Scripture if people would take the time to look. (Revelation 5:9, 7:9) Even the Amalekites will be represented in heaven and those who have done wicked will have received their just punishment. If a judge on earth let murders and child killers live we would call the judge evil, but if he did what was right we would call him good. Just as the God of heaven judges with righteous( doing the right thing) judgment. ( John 7:24) You have no actual evidence of evil done by the God of the Bible. I stand firm in the fact that you ignored the narrative explanation and came up with your own conclusion and my argument was clear that there are too many other areas that point to the God of the Old Testament is the God of love revealed in Jesus. As the Scripture says Jesus was the express image of God the Father. (Hebrews 1:3) We can only conclude according to(1)Biblical Hermeneutics(How to interpret Scripture) that the acts done by God were righteous. So your reason to not follow God because He is evil is false. If God had committed any evil and Jesus only did what He saw His Father do( John 5:19) then He never would have rose from the dead, which He did when He conquered death for all who call upon Him. (1 Corinthians 15:57) Next I will be brief about Job. The problem once again is you came to conclusions about the text that don't line up with the narrative explanation(See R2), you didn't use Biblical Hermeneutics to reach your conclusion, and last and I believe is most important the person(Job) who had the situation came to a totally different conclusion about God than you and he is the one who it happened to. (See R2) On a side note you blamed God for Jobs trouble when Satan is the one who came after him. The story shows a Biblical teaching about a thing called common grace. (2) God had a hedge of protection around Job that Job didn't earn because God chose to protect him from such troubles. Later He removed the hedge and Satan attacked. God has this grace on all mankind and if you read the resource God restrains you and I from the sin that is within us by common grace. You or I could be another Hitler or worse if it wasn't for God's common grace. Along with that God has a level of protection on all mankind and if He chose on any individual to remove it because of their sin and rebellion against Him Satan would have free reign just like He did with Job, I know you have the B. O. P. , but this is a truth found in the Bible which we agreed is true and this is reason enough for all men and women to at least thank the God of the Bible. In regards to hell we could debate all day long about what all the words mean and if the people will be utterly destroyed or will be tormented forever. Whether it is one way or the other I don't think it changes whether or not God should be followed or not. Complete annihilation verse eternal bliss is no comparison, and eternal torment doesn't even come close to being in heaven so those alternatives are not good either way. Here is a resource that supports eternal judgment in hell with many Scriptures if you think I am just side-stepping the argument. (3) In conclusion no evidence has been presented beyond a shadow of a doubt that this God should be absolutely not followed as Pro has taken the B. O. P. I have to say God is still worthy to be followed. There may be some things we don't understand, but there are to many other signs that point to the God of the Old Testament being the God of love revealed in Jesus. If someone wants to follow YHWH because He has forever changed their life let them. If God says anyone who calls on My Son's name shall be saved let them come. (Romans 10:13) I would like to thank Pro for a most excellent debate. 1. . http://en.wikipedia.org... 2. . http://www.theopedia.com... 3. . http://ag.org...