Questions for Christians

While laying in bed an interesting question came to me that I would like to put toward Christians:

"Why would a all loving, all powerful, perfect being create such imperfect species? Why, too, would that being then require those imperfect creatures to worship it with unwaveringly devotion with the intention of then rewarding that devotion with a place in heaven? If that being we're truly all loving, then wouldn't it have just made created those beings in heaven?

Heaven is meant to be a reward for faith. That reward is given by God. Yet it is also God that created the beings that will be rewarded for faith. To be rewarded for faith one must have the chance not to have faith. So God created imperfect beings. Yet what kind if reward is it when your own creator has made you flawed for the soul purpose of faith, and then to reward you for it?

And does God take pity on his own creations? Yes, thusly giving the reward for faith. This is all very confusing. It seems insane to create something broken so you can fix the good bits a throw the rest away. Then to feel so bad about the fact that you create something broken in the fist place.

This seems to point to the fact that God creating mankind to worship God and the to take pity on the flaw that were designed, is insane. Unless of course God didn't create humans. In which case it's not insane to take pity, but it sure is egotistical to require faith for salvation of something you have pity for."

So I guess not one question, but rather a whole slew of them along with a mess load of holes and unanswered questions.

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