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DélioPT on 12 October 2012
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IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
DélioPT said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

I understand that, but fact remains: God knew exactly who would go to hell and who would live through major pain throughout their lives before they existed. To me, creating them in the first place is cruel. I wouldn't adopt kittens if I knew I couldn't afford buying them food, or if I somehow (through divine powers) knew that they would not eat the food that I had to offer. In that case, it would be cruel to adopt them, as I see it.

The pain only comes after something wrong is done.
From your point of view there would be no life as people would suffer. So you`d rather throw something good away because of the pain that could be avoided?


It's not that people suffer, but that some suffer a lot more (well, some even for an ethernity) than others while some can do more about their situation than others.

Going back to my above example: I would love to adopt kittens despite knowing that some of them would go through inevitable pain at times. But if I knew that some of them would not accept my food, I would choose to not adopt those specific kittens. God should resonate the same way with the people who are going to hell, and choose not to create them in the first place.

But maybe that "suffer a lot more" comes from the wrongs that they have done. Suffering in hell starts here: it`s a path that people already start walking in this life. Heaven or hell is something that, despite being God who gives it, is something you wanted. God is only applying Justice. Suffering is not something that God wants - on the contrary - but what you wanted.
Suffering always depends on the person you are. Nobody gets more than they can handle or deserve. Two persons don`t react or feel the same way over the same situation.

God doesn`t create this or that people separated one from another. Either we all exist or we all don`t exist. It`s the same way salvation works: it`s for everyone to acccept Jesus. Individually some people do, others don`t. But it`s there for everyone.
Thing is, you do not create one human without creating humanity. We are all connected. And if you look at your own life you will see exactly that. The good and the bad come from all of us leaving as one.