Having not been raised in the church, I had a lot of similar questions. Why do we do this or that type questions. Being a woman made it all the harder because we were not allowed to ask questions of the church/pastor. Women were to ask their husbands. My husband was the pastors son. Needless to say it was worthless to try to get a logical response from anyone. We were taught to believe the pastor because he was "called by God" and "God spoke through him", why question God? That is where it ended. God works in mysterious ways so don't question. I'm sure everyone had the same thoughts but NO ONE voiced them for fear of appearing faithless. O Ye of little faith - BS