...Because of the restrictions that God created for salvation. We cannot save ourselves because God will not allow us to, as he has created a system, and allows no deviation from it.
Some, or most?
What's the point in even creating the people that God knows will surely go to Hell? In what...
The state of someone entering the world is not what is in question here.
Before humans exist on Earth, God knows that in the year 2009, Person X will die and their fate will be sealed to Hell, because they are not saved. Thus, we can say that God has created Person X (by way of creating the...
I think it's all a very comical human myth, and absolutely nothing more.
However, I think through asking questions like these that the outright silliness and ridiculousness of religions like Christianity is exposed, helping us better understand that these belief systems are based on feeble and...
That does not all change the fact that an omniscient being would know all of your "free" choices before you even existed, and would therefor know if you would end up in Heaven or Hell.
My question is, in knowing before a person is even born that they will go to hell, why does God not simply...
And thus, they begin the uphill battle against biology and neuroscience that they cannot win...
..Unless, of course, modern research conducted by the brightest minds of all history with the most advanced tools we've ever had is COMPLETELY wrong, and cultists from thousands of years ago who...
P1: No action is free if it must occur.
P2: Human actions result from wants, wishes, desires, motivations, feelings, etc.
P3: Human wants, wishes, desires, motivations, feelings, etc. are caused in turn by specific antecedent conditions that ensure their occurrence.
C: Human actions...
And how will you determine if an action is "right" or "correct"? What standard or meter will you hold actions to that you can make a judgment of "right" or "wrong"? Or, is this notion of "right"/"wrong"/"correct"/"incorrect" merely a matter of human emotional feeling that has no grounding in...
What's the point?
We can all agree that the Christian god knows who is going to hell, and who isn't. I see no reason why God would create people that he is sure will go to hell.
I think your confusion is warranted, because the Christian conception of free-will here is not a coherent one. The idea that God's interference would mess everything up is a doctrine that Christians must hold to attempt to explain away the complete absence of their deity in our world. Of...
Define "correct".
There's certainly nothing illegal (at least, not where I live) about changing people's minds. Changing or crushing someone's belief can be a great display of mental prowess of one party, and the weakness of the other.