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originally posted in: I am an avid Christian; AMA
5/28/2015 6:26:17 PM
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Think of it this way: God knows your outcome based on decisions you will make throughout your life. But the one thing he cannot effect is this decision you make. That is free will. He gives you the choice to do as you please and to make whatever decisions you see fit. But he knows the outcome of all possible choices you do make. I believe that whether it is here on Earth, or somewhere after this life on Earth is over, that someone will be faced with deciding whether or not they want to believe in the Holy Bible and that Jesus died on the cross for them. I don't believe that people are predestined to Hell, but I do believe that Satan or other religions reach people first and convince them before ever having a chance to feel God's grace. It's a sad thing to think about, but as a Christian, it should be our goal to try and douse as many of those flames as we can and to bring lost souls into the light to see what it's all really about. At least they get to live a life with as much sin as they please before they go to Hell. A life that God gave them to enjoy as they please. They simply choose other means of pleasure and enjoyment and refuse the idea that happiness in God is the greatest happiness of all. Heaven is perfect, an idea that we as humans simply cannot fathom.
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  • I dunno man. I get what your saying, I get the whole free will thing. But ultimately god knows there's ton of people that are gonna end up in hell, and if it was up to me i wouldn't create mankind and prevent that suffering. Maybe my question can't be answered as to why he created us anyways knowing this, only he can answer it i guess.

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  • Yes, a question only he could answer I suppose. He created life. But if he wanted everyone to be perfect and decided to create every single person without flaw and with intentions to send every single one to Heaven, then why even place us on Earth? He would have just created us all in Heaven from the beginning. You have to inherit your passage to Heaven, in which God wants for every single one of us. But fact is, some people simply won't.

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  • But by saying that if he wanted everyone to go to heaven he wouldn't have put us on earth, you're essentially saying he wanted some people to go to hell, and knew that they would. If I knew my son was destined to eternal torture before I even had him, I simply wouldn't allow him to be born because no matter what I did to prevent it, [b]by definition[/b] It couldn't be worse than eternal torture.

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