Why would (a) God do this?

Question

Why would He/She create humans that will do evil? There are those who argue that it is our free will and the already existing evil that cause people to lead evil lives.

I do reply this to those people who do accept this: When God created us, (it) already knew exactly what we were going to do. And since this God concept is all-knowing, it therefore knows which human created will go to heaven and which human will eventually go to hell.

Some say that it is up to us whether or not we will go to hell. I again remind the characteristic of God to be all-knowing, and even if it was up to us what we did with our lives, God would already know what we will do. So my question is why would a God create a human that it already knows will eventually go to hell?

Please, no answers that imply that I am trying to insult people's beliefs. I'm just asking a question I can't find an answer to.

Thumbs down if you must, I guess. I won't erase the question.

Please read the question. If God knows everything, then God must know which humans it creates will go to hell and which will go to heaven, even before they live out their lives. God is supposed to know EVERYTHING. That means what I'm going to do with my life, also.

The question is, why would these humans be created, if God already knows they'll go to hell?

Answer 1

I've often wondered the same, but this is the best explanation I can come up with. Yes, God is all-knowing. He knows how we will choose, but he gives us the choice. Kind of like I know if I put a dish of tuna on the floor and a dish of cat food, my cat is gonna choose the tuna, but I give it the choice. God doesn't present the opportunity for evil. His adversary - some call it Satan - does.

However, wherever there is an evil done, there is an opportunity created for another to do good. When an arsonist burns a house, a community can band together to help the victims. When a murderer kills, the community can help the family to heal and bring the criminal to justice. When cross paths with someone who is addicted to drugs or alcohol, we have an opportunity to counsel and assist that person to get help.

It is about more than everybody behaving...it is also about people being kind and loving...just like we are told to do in all the religious texts. I am a Christian...that means I follow the teachings of Christ. If I had been born in another place in this world, I may be Buddhist or Muslim, but I would still be obligated to be ethical, merciful, and kind to my fellow man, if I really followed either of those religions. I don't think God has a religion. He is God.

Answer 2

Yes, God knows what the choices we make will be. He doesn't make the choice for us, He allows each individual to decide whether to believe or not. God could have only created a group of people that believed in Him, but why would He do that? What would be the point of living this life? No, God chose to have His creation acknowledge His sovereignty, on their own....to give them a choice. This is our freewill; to choose life or choose death. Everyone has the choice to make freely. The fact that God knows the outcome is irrelevant to us as we don't know the outcome. He has given us the choice to obey or not from the very beginning. People earn hell entirely on their own as they have heard the truth, yet denied Him.

Answer 3

well he did create all of us ............. or none. if yes, then he knew what he was doing and what was going to happen, good and bad, allowing for freewill.
I am not a believer in a hell. I believe in eternal darkness for a totally blackened spirit. [I'm sure hitler must be there or hanging on by his fingernails if not]. eternal darkness is 'nothingness'. a spirit who enters disappears from the book of life. he does not exist anymore.
that question, among others, lead me to my own belief. I believe that the good and bad were created so all could/can exercise freewill. For me, god doesn't want a bunch of sheep. he wants people who have willed themselves to god, over other choices.
Beyond this, I do not believe in heaven. rather, I believe that when we are finished our chosen tasks, we return to become a part of a living god.

Answer 4

Why do you question GOD but you have no answers about yourself!

The beauty of the way that GOD made all humans is that HE gave all a FREE SPIRIT! What would be proven if GOD made you believe and love HIM?

If you hypnotize a female and use her sexually, does that mean she gave her self to you out of love for you? Were you capable of reaching her inner self? You would have nothing of her unless she gave herself to you because she wanted you to have her.

GOD would have failed in HIS creation of humans if HE forced Humans to love HIM and each other.

To help, GOD offers a reward, Hell to those who fail, Heavens to those HE deem worthy!

Not only that, since it is all HIS, HE Calls the shots, make the rules, and do what ever He chooses. You get no say about how HE sets up the game!

You might want to be careful, HE could find you defective and take you out early!

Answer 5

The existence of your life is based on your good and bad deeds in your past life. According to Hindu sacred religion, our life cannot be ended and we take birth after birth till we merge with the source where we came from, called Supreme power. This state of complete oneness can be achieved by a simple and wonderful meditation.

Thanks

Answer 6

Just because God knows, does not take your free will. God is outside of time, meaning the past, future, and present. Just because He is all knowing, does not take your free will. For instance, if I were to give chocolate pudding to my child, and a dead rat to eat, which would he eat? I know that he would go for the chocolate pudding, but that does not take away his free will to take the rat. I hope that this helps. It is the same with God, He knows what you will do, but He gives you the choice, but that does not mean that it takes your free will, and it does not mean that even if He knows, it will prevent you from doing what you want. He just knows what you will do or chose. You can still chose what you want. He just know ahead of time what it will be. It is still up to you. You cannot put God into our world and our time frame, He is not in it.

Answer 7

God did not create humans to do evil. Humans have free will. The Devil mad me do it is not the correct answer either. Adam chose to bite the apple because Eve told her to and the snake told her to. That is how we humans got evil in our flesh.

Answer 8

God gave us free will. Adam and Eve mucked up. God doesn't want anyone to go to hell, it was never intended for people but God cannot have people with him who aren't in relationship with him.

God see all the paths our lives will take and it grieves him that many will choose destruction.

Answer 9

God sees us only as God created (the truth of) us. We are not separated selves, given "choices" based upon the lesser of two extremes; we are created OF God, not just BY God...the reality and love of God is kind, not conditioned upon what we "choose", especially when we do not understand our own nature, in human terms. We are free, not based on ridiculous notions of a wholly human "god", but free because it is God's Nature to be free. We are beloved, God's Beloved. Seek your deepest heart, beyond the frightened tales of the disheartened.

Answer 10

I'M A CHRISTIAN and I ask myself this ALL THE TIME

POINT IS:----I'm not going to throw scriptures at you (apparently that repels a lot of people)--but I will say that LIFE GOES ON

We may question EXISTENCE itself, but the FACT that we exist reigns true (after all, you do see a moving object [HINT: Yourself] when you look in the mirror)