re: Is the idea of eternal life appealing to you?

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This may sound stupid but I think the human body and how it works is a perfect example of a higher being and how different the female anatomy is than the male. They were made to re-produce specifically.

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I sort of think the opposite. It's hard for me to think there's a supreme being up there thinking when he created us, "Hey, I need to give these bodies a gall bladder to store bile."

I hear you. All I'm trying to say is...

We both agree hell is a terrible place

Let's use the dog analogy. Say you have a litter full of dogs. Dogs that can't even begin to contemplate the nature of your being. Would you want to have any of those dogs sent to hell for eternity for anything they did?

Your answer should be no

If it is, why can an imperfect version of god (Us, created in his image, but imperfect because of sin) almost instantaneously without debate realize that is a terrible system to create?

Wouldn't a perfect version of ourselves (God) be able to see even more clearly that such a fate is terrible? It would be better if God didn't create that person then for them to suffer for an eternity

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Let's use the dog analogy.

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Interesting analogy but is (imo) flawed in 2 ways.

1) Unlike your dog analogy, people can and do contemplate the nature and character of God. At best limited, at worst destructive but nonetheless, there it is...

2) Christian Theology is built around the concept the God has never simply left man to his on devices (which seems to be implied in your analogy). God does not sit idle on the sidelines watching what we will do next. Rather, through human agency, he is engaged with humanity to reveal himself to us. Hence the redemptive story..

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2) I don't feel like anything has been revealed to me that is anymore relevant than other things I hear about every day. I then research those things and decide if I believe them or not. Organized religion is the only group that asks me to suspend those innate instincts, and it all just seems very convenient

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I do get what you are saying. I do not think (again, this is merely my opinion..) God asks us to "suspend our instincts" to use your phrase. Often times I think fellow Christians take the lazy way out because the questions asked, such as the one you raise, are difficult to answer. I know I have done that on occasion.

I completely understand the logic and reasoning I often hear from others when they express their reasons for doubt or out right disbelief. God is not anti-logical ( tho sometimes we would be lead to believe that...) but I would suggest that His logic and rational is derived from different factors than ours. It would be impossible for me to understand much less convey what those factors might be at the moment.