Justice and Hell Question

[cosmicutopia]

A thought I had - The best reason I have seen as to why God created the world knowing people would suffer eternally is this --

God must display all his attributes, including his justice. So my question is..

God loves displaying his justice to the extent that certain people are pre-destined to eternal hell?

 

[warhorse]

A thought I had - The best reason I have seen as to why God created the world knowing people would suffer eternally is this --

God must display all his attributes, including his justice. So my question is..

God loves displaying his justice to the extent that certain people are pre-destined to eternal hell?

You start with a false premise, that God predestined anyone to hell. It was made for saten and his angels after there rebellion and saten deceived eve in the garden to bring about the fall.

 

[cosmicutopia]

You start with a false premise, that God predestined anyone to hell. It was made for saten and his angels after there rebellion and saten deceived eve in the garden to bring about the fall.

How can the verse that "Hell was made for the devil and his angels" coincide with God's eternal nature and foreknowledge?

 

[Hitch]

A thought I had - The best reason I have seen as to why God created the world knowing people would suffer eternally is this --

God must display all his attributes, including his justice. So my question is..

I doubt tht God has come anywhere near displaying all His attributes.

God loves displaying his justice to the extent that certain people are pre-destined to eternal hell?

Not only that, He put theTree right where Adam couldnt avoid it, go figure.

 

[cosmicutopia]

I doubt tht God has come anywhere near displaying all His attributes. Not only that, He put theTree right where Adam couldnt avoid it, go figure.

I'm not sure I'm following you.

 

[Hitch]

I'm not sure I'm following you.

Can you be more specific?

 

[Godmanseed]

Yes it is true that God knew who would reject Him before He created them, but that is just an example of His awesome mercy. Instead of destroying our souls (the punishment for sin) God gives us a choice whether or not to follow him. No ones soul will perish for rejecting God, thats why Jesus was sacrificed. Hell isn't what most people think it is. Hell is the absence of God. That means that anything good and of God (like air, the Sun, love, etc.) will not be there. God doesn't send us to hell we choose to go there.

 

[Sam21]

I think it is much bigger than we can understand in this life, on the one hand we have the incredible love of God for His creation, on the other hand we have this incredible punishment for all humans who miss the will of God in this life. Since God does not want humans to end up in hell,then this has to be actual war between God and satan, however it is a war fought within legal limits. Maybe some of it is not so complex, God is a totally righteous Being, God created beings to share His love with, because God is righteous He created beings with the freedom to choose,because the freedom to choose demands a choice there had to be at least one tree that they were not to eat of,because God is righteous God took the punishment for eating from the wrong tree if man would only accept that He did wrong and ask for forgiveness.
Now satan was waging a war against God(by choice)and he was allowed to be the legal antagonist and as such he was allowed to speak on behalf of the idea of rejecting God. The war was between God and satan, however because man became part of that war, all men who reject God have to suffer the fate reserved for those at war with God.