Board Thread:Bible Questions/@comment-37375008-20181101222550/@comment-5175866-20181102142741

Many of your questions have been debated for centuries by theologians, so many of your questions are not ones we have firm answers to.

It could be said family is the most important thing in this life, asides from our relationship with God. God has given families as a gift. He has created us to be in relationship with other humans and for some of those relationships to create or care for more humans. The Bible uses the motif that God is our father, Christians are his children. Jesus Christ is the Groom, Christ is the Church. This may indicate one reason for family relationships is to model relationships with God. Families are for our Earthly comfort and need as fragile human bodies. Our earthly family may not carry over (much like marriage won't) to Heaven, but that doesn't mean we won't be in relationships with others there.

We are created by God for his glory first and foremost. Family is auxiliary to that. That is the best explanation I can give, but that is one of those concepts not everyone wants to accept. God is divine and supreme, family members are humans. If the purpose of our existence is to honor God, then family cannot get in the way of that. One of the primary ways to bring honor to God is through caring for family. We do not exist to be in our human families, human families are a good thing God has given for our time here on Earth. There are two "soul families" if you will. Everybody is born with a soul in a human body. The original intent for the soul and the body was a perfect, blissful living. That all changed due to Adam and Eve's willful disobedience of God (through their own freedom of choice to give into temptation) and we all have that same choice every day. Those are the only two divides that will matter for eternity- you follow God or you don't. Everything else (gender, race, family, nationality, ethnicity etc) are all secondary characteristics for human living. I can't tell you why God puts unbelievers and believers together in a family. God does not ask for the choice among family lines, he asks each and individual person. Being part of a certain family does not earn Salvation, only the willful choice to make a faith commitment to God.

Biblically speaking, there is an innate sense of morality (thus pointing to God) that everyone possesses. Though you may not have a specific understanding of Yahweh of the Bible, there is still ability to reject God. I hope my answers help. Your questions are not ones we necessarily have answers to, but Christ followers trust in the way God ordered things to work. I cannot expect you to understand as those with a relationship with God can truly understand some of these things.