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Okay, let’s suppose there is a God and that He is perfect an all-loving, these are the honest questions I, as a logical agnostic, would ask:

Why would He create imperfection?

What sort of imperfection? The creation works in wondrous ways. If you are speaking of sin as an imperfection, the answer lies within man's own choices. Man chose to sin, to commit murder, adultery, etc.

Why would He create beings that He knew would spend an eternity rotting and being tormented in Hell when He didn't’t have to? How does God choose who goes to Heaven and who to goes to Hell?

Each man, himself, chooses hell or he chooses redemption and heaven. God prefers that we all choose heaven.

What is God’s purpose? Does He even have a purpose? Why did God even create us? Does we fulfill some emotional lack that He has or provide Him some necessary external stimulation? What is the purpose of life if it’s not necessary for it for God to decide whether we go to Heaven or to Hell? Why did He create us in this life when He already knows our final destination? Why would God want to punish somebody forever? Does He get pleasure out of it? If God created everything, why did He create evil?

God gave us all free will, we are not puppets and yes, I believe God created man because He was lonely. Again, God does not send anyone to hell and God did not create evil. Both are chosen by men through their own free will.

(Remember, I am a logical agnostic and these are some of the questions I have been asking my wife and she doesn’t know the answer to them. I would like a logical answer, but if there is none, then there isn’t any, but I would like to be told that.)

I don't know what I would say to you over that hedge. Perhaps I would just say read the bible once again with an open heart - perhaps a prayer (even one that says God, I don't believe, so help me believe"). I actually think you want the answer, but it can't be given over a hedge. Just ask God every day to help you understand - He'll answer the true seeker of truth.