why would god create me, if he already knew i was going to hell?

Question

by the christian logic, god knows everything so he knows that i would not believe in him. he knew this before he created me. so he created me only to send me to hell?

D: so the all-knowing god created me anyway in the hopes i would change? well, sure that makes sense, i mean with being all knowing, wouldn't he KNOW i'm not going to change?

SeeTheLight: if God respects my choice, why is he going to send me to hell for it? that doesn't soun like respect to me

Answer 1

One of the reasons I don't ascribe to christianity...or any religion, for that matter. I can't say it's all false. Hey, if there is a God, what he does and thinks doesn't have to make sense to us. It's possible that there's a far more complex purpose to the whole damnation concept, and that for him to explain it to us would be like trying to explain the theory of relativity to a flea.

But. For a person to claim that that absolutely has to be the case. That they know it is, for certain, is idiotic. Every fiber of my admittedly limited human logic tells me that it makes no sense. That to create a being knowing what it will do, and hope for it to do something else, or to understand in its entirety the complex web of causality that leads one to do as one does and still hold one accountable for one's actions, would make this all-knowing, all-powerful God quite foolish indeed.

Answer 2

Good question.

God knows better. The all-knowing. The Most Merciful.

If I were God, should you deny my existence and the existence of hell and heaven, and by the time of judgement day, I will let you witness or feel the bit of hell fire.

By the time you admit and want to get out of hell (even after a a split second), I will let you out. Why? Because I am thinking as a human, and I have that a little mercy.

Would God have mercy too? Oh Yes, much more merciful than me, much more merciful than an ordinary human. He will probably have better idea for you to understand His existence.

Most of the answers you received reflects that God is emotional & less merciful than humans, which is hilarious.

-Muslims-

Answer 3

around reasoning. Why ought to we then stay in any respect? If God is familiar with how each and every thing will artwork out interior the tip, then be completed with it and permit's get on with eternity. Our myopic minds do no longer think of and reason at His point. He perspectives issues from an completely diverse perspective an eternal perspective the place ours is principally temporal. Scripture says, God says, "he's not prepared that ANY PERISH yet all come to repentance," and so with a 'unfastened will' perhaps there's somewhat misinterpretation approximately God's finished foreknowledge. A unfastened will is punctiliously unpredictable it may replace in a single day. i think of each and every on occasion we ought to permit God be what he's, and us mere people complication approximately ourselves.

Answer 4

I love skeptic's answer, because I am God's Court Jester.

ok, there is an answer in Christian Theology; in fact, there are several, I really understand where you're coming from, but the subject becomes multi-facited so quickly that it is difficult to deal with it in this forum.

According to Paul who wrote Romans:9; the vessels of destruction were created in order to display the amount of mercy that is granted to those that are saved.
Sorry for not giving a more serious answer before.

Answer 5

Also by their belief, we all have the choice to change. And god gave us free will to choose our fate, no matter what that might be because he loved us so much.

They don't believe god sends them to hell, they believe a person's actions do. You either do good things or bad things.

I don't follow any one religion, because people do things in the name of them that are terrible. I believe in a higher power, that is there to guide us in our choices, but as for heaven and hell...those are man made to scare people into being 'good'.

Answer 6

GOD GIVES EVERY PERSON A CHANCE TO MAKE THAT DECISION. YOU MIGHT CHANGE YOUR MIND LATER ON.

OF COURSE HE DIDN'T CREATE YOU JUST TO GO TO HELL. NOT AT ALL.

DO YOU WANT TO LIVE A LIFE WITH OR WITHOUT GOD?

THE CHOICE IS UP TO YOU. THERE WILL COME A TIME OF EARTLY LIFE FOR EVERYONE AND AFTER THAT, THE JUDGEMENT.

HE NEVER FORCES ANYONE TO FOLLOW HIM......WE HAVE FREE WILL.

JOHN 3: 16

FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON. THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHALL NOT PERISH , BUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE/

BELIEVNG, REPENTENCE AND OBEDIENCE. EVERYONE MUST BE SPIRITUALLY BORN AGAIN TO BE A CHRISTIAN.

WE ARE BORN INTO THE WORLD, THE ABOVE STATEMENT MEANS SPIRITUALLY BORN IN OUR SPIRIT TO RECEIVE GOD AND WE WANT TO STOP DOING UNGODLY THINGS.

TRUE --------CHRISTIANS AND EVEN SOME PASTORS HAVE MADE BIG MISTAKES AFTER THEY WERE A CHRISTIAN AND SOME NEVER WERE REALLY A CHRISTIAN IN THEIR HEART.

SATAN STILL TEMPTS CHRISTIANS TOO.

THE MORE A PERSON READS AND HEARS GOD'S WORD, THE MORE THEY WILL UNDERSTAND. FAITH COMES BY HEARING THE WORD OF GOD.

Answer 7

Listen, I am a Christian but not a bible thumping fanatic, personally i dont think very highly of christians. But to answer your question, both sides could throw there logic & reasoning around & we could go in a never ending circle & go nowhere & accomplish nothing. You may have a point, you may not, it does sound logical, but the bottom line is, christians dont know FOR SURE & neither does anybody else, so everybody should just do there thing & mind there own business.

Answer 8

I am a Jehovah's Witness so I don't believe in Hell in the traditional way. Hell is nothing more than the common grave, your dead, and your soul is remembered by God. In John, it even says that Jesus himself went to Hades (Hell). Now why would God send his son to Hell?

Answer 9

All the evidence is not in, just yet.
Nobody can say whether or not you are going to "hell"...except in the sense that we are all going to our grave.
I am a Christian...by my logic, when you die, your spirit will go back to God, Who gave it. Death and Hell will eventually give up the dead bodies in them...and God will make the final disposition.
I do know that Death and Hell are both thrown into the Lake of Fire...which seems to be God's incinerator...where He will dispose of whatever He deems unfit to live in His Kingdom.
Do you really think you are wicked enough to warrant being tossed into the trash and burnt up? Cuz, you would know better than I would...

Answer 10

The bible is an imperfect record, kept by imperfect people. The truth is in it, but it has a little man made crap in there, too.

If you truly want proper guidance, pray to the lord for it. If you believe and ask him, he will reveal his truth to you. It will likely happen gradually rather than immediately, but if you are open minded and patient, it will happen.

Good things often take time.

Namaste.

EDITED TO ADD:
He is respecting your choice...if you choose that you don't believe in or love God, then it follows that you don't want to spend an eternity (or any amount of time, really) in the same place with him. There is only one other alternative. And that is entirely your choice. He will indeed respect that.