Rhapsody, you're defining lust differently than I do. You don't have to have conscious thoughts for it to be lust. You can look at a person, even just for a few seconds, and desire them. That's what I call lust. But it's not important. I just want you to know how I'm defining it, so you understand my answer more clearly.

While I don't want to get into a religious debate with you, and I don't even believe in the Bible, but according to the Bible, God did create lust. God created everything. It says so in the Bible. When I was Christian, I believed God created the bad things because you can't know one without the other (hot water isn't hot if you never know what cold water feels like; it's just the way water is if the temperature never changes), and to test us.