Why Did God Create People He Knew Would Go to Hell?

[tonychanyt]

Ezekiel 33:

11 Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel

God desires that the wicked would repent.

But then Romans 9:

19 You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?” 20 But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”

God is the creator. He knows more than we do and can know more than we can. We need to humble ourselves before God and his infinite understanding.

21 Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? 22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23 in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory?

Ezekiel expressed God's mercy, and Romans showed God's sovereignty. These are two aspects of the same God.

Does God desire the wicked to repent?

Yes, but they do not cooperate.

Does God make both righteous for honorable use and wicked people for dishonorable use?

Yes, by his sovereign power. God makes people whom he foreknows would act unrepentingly.

There is no contradiction in the first-order logical sense.

Why make them?

1. To show his wrath.
2. To make known his power.
3. To demonstrate his patience toward the unrepentant.
4. To prove his glory toward the repentant.

See also The will of God: What does it mean?.

 

[BobRyan]

God did not make Angels or humans "to show his wrath"
A parent that chooses to have children to "show their wrath" is not at all loving.

God made Lucifer - knowing he would one day fall. But not because of the way God made him.
God made the Angels - knowing that one day 1/3 of them would fall - "but not because of the way God made them"
God made Adam and Eve - knowing that one day they would fall -- but not because of the way God made them.

God made "the myriads and myriads" of beings in Dan 7:9-10 -- sinless unfallen beings - knowing they would never fall -- but not because God did not give them free will

Rom 9 says God works with great patience with everyone -- even with those that He knows will never accept His gift of eternal life freely offered to them.

1 John 2:2 Jesus willing sacrificed Himself to pay the debt of all sins in all of time for fallen humans making Himself "the atoning sacrifice for our sins and not for our sins only but for the sins of the WHOLE WORLD". God put a lot of skin in the game - even for the lost.

 

[Ivan Hlavanda]

God does whatever He wants, and everything He does is to His glory. He does not have to explain Himself to anyone, nor does He own anything to anyone.

All we do is constantly sin against God, yet in His mercy He judges no one, but calls us to His Son to repent. What an amazing love.

 

[BobRyan]

God does whatever He wants, and everything He does is to His glory. He does not have to explain Himself to anyone, nor does He own anything to anyone.

true but He sovereignly chose free will for the universe He made and sustains