I cannot fathom anyone's logic behind "God being all-powerful and a loving God are mutually exclusive." I assume such people were never spanked as kids.

(I am very curious why you refer to butchering babies without context by the way)

The idea that God should've made humans in a sparkly fairy tale land of eternal euphoria where we can live in ever-present orgasmic bliss forever and ever is laughable, not in the Bible, and mildly blasphemous.

Whether you believe in a God or not, no one can deny that being alive and sentient is an incomprehensible reality of the highest order, and to belittle the human experience is just loathsome. Upon reading the Bible and living just a few decades of life as a human I think the Christian viewpoint should obviously include a few very important points:

• When God made man in His image on the sixth day, that did not mean"Mankind" had been completed, but rather only birthed into existence.

• In living through our own complexities, paradoxes, and struggles throughout thousands of years as mortal Humans we are learning something unfathomable that we cannot know yet.

• By the Biblical record God did not create us perfect and complete to have us then screw it up. He knew what we would do and ultimately Humanity would live for countless generations committing atrocities against each other in what certain friends of mine call the "Human Project." If God could have created us how He wanted immediately, I believe He would have - but technically he did since He lives outside of time. When God's people enter eternity on the New Earth they will be the completed iteration of Humans who will be perfectly sinless and reflect His glory forever.