Here is where my faith gets tested. If God created everything why did he find it necessary to include pedophilia? According to Genesis we are created in His own image. Since He is cruel; and I was told since a young kid that He does nothing wrong; shouldn't then it be perfectly permissible in His eyes for me to do something cruel? If it is okay for God to be cruel and not me; I would think that would make God the biggest hypocrite in the universe.

If what you say is true I think God has got to be either really bored or has one hell of a warped sense of humor. I can picture a young God sitting in his parents basement its raining outside, there's nothing on T.V. so he decides to get out the cosmic tinker toys that he used to play with as a kid and creates a planet so he can watch its inhabitants run around killing each other, fornicating, lying, stealing and cheating but there are also tender moments a baby laughs for the first time, a young couple falls in love...O my God He invented the soap opera! Why else would there be a need for us to learn the diffence between good and evil if he never would have created evil in the first place?

Thanks for the chat, I try to have these conversations with my wife and she just glazes over and shes a bigger church goer than I am.