Epicurus riddle.

[Jenny A]

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What the philosopher suggests is that it is evil to allow evil if you can prevent it especially if you created the evil in the first place.  It's hard to argue with that.
But that is what free will advocates are arguing: free will of the evil doer is more important than the evil done to his victims.  If you believe there is evil in the world and that allowing evil is evil, and you don't buy the free will argument you are left with three choices:

1. God is omnipotent but evil.
2. God is not omnipotent.
3. There is no god.

You appear to have chosen option one.  There's plenty of Biblical support for that. But why would you worship such a god?

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We are slaves to either God or sin, their is no free will either.

So why do I want to worship God? I do not want to be bound/be a slave to sin.

I've never really understood what it means to be a slave to sin. Biblically, sin is transgression against god's laws. So other than following them, how could anyone be a slave to god's laws. But of course as defined by Jesus, the abscence of sin is impossible as it would involve not only giving away everything you have, but not ever having any bad thoughts either, including harmless natural ones like lust. Frankly, given his failure to honor his mother and father, questioning god at Gesthsemone, and authorizing the theft of both a donkey and an ass(or was it a colt?), I don't think Jesus managed it himself unless you just say he is god and can't sin against himself. So by a slave to sin, I take you to mean that you can't stop sinning. No kidding. No one can. Though it is quite possible to be a moral upright person, and most people manage that just fine. So abscent god's law, it appears perfectly possible to be a good person. So, if god's laws are rigged, why worry about violating them. Just work on being a moral person and let it go.

That brings me to the second problem: how does being a slave to god save you from being a slave to god's law. You may think that it saves you from the consequences of violating god's laws, but it won't keep you from violating them. You remain sinful by any biblical definition. God just happens to forgive you. And what do you get for forgiveness? Eternal life with worshiping the admittedly manevolent god. The cure sounds worse than the disease. OH YEAH, hell. It's really a choice of death(or worse yet eternal torment) or worshiping a menevolent being. Such fun. Possitively Lovecraftian.

I can see why you make the choice you do if you really beleive in the existence of the menevolant old bastard.

Of course there are other ways of interpreting slave to sin. Does god perhaps keep you from committing moral crimes? That would be a force worth having. But judging from the actions of Christians, it appears not.