ABSTRACT
This chapter features thought experiments, discussion questions and further readings on Worship. Campbell Brown and Yujin Nagasawa (2005) have developed an argument about the traditional theistic claim that people have an obligation to worship God. They argue that God cannot oblige people to worship Him. Typically, Christians hold that if God commands people to give money to charity then they have an obligation to give money to charity. The obligation arises not because of what is being commanded but by the very fact that God is commanding it. Furthermore, it is a central tenet of Christianity and in fact many other world religions, that humans have an obligation to worship God. God is the ultimate arbitrator, the great 'I AM', the ultimate sanction; He is all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving. We are nothing in relation to Him, so when He commands us to do something it really does seem like that command is enough to ground our obligation to do so.
