[MagicRat]

Are we baiting the religiously-minded participants with plain logic here??

To quote (or paraphrase) Yogi Berra (sp) "You can tell a lot by just looking"
It's very easy to find all kinds of logical inconsistencies in just about every facet of organised religion. It does not seem to dissuade the faithful from their (IMAO delusional) beliefs.

I expect a religious person would say that God does not want to make up our minds for us about Good and Evil.
Instead He gives us the freedom to make our own mistakes and find our own way to worship him or prove our worth so we can be saved on Judgement day, or go to heaven or whatever other miraculous and unproven fate awaits us after death.